Dylan Thomas
The birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses I rose in rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. – Dylan Thomas
August 29, 2003
Adding History to Island’s Heritage Trail: Sunday Gathering Held in Honor of Isabel Powell
Some 250 people gathered Sunday on a glorious late-summer day to honor Ms. Isabel Powell, the matriarch of the Powell family, and the memory of Cong. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. A diverse crowd gathered to pay their respects to Ms. Powell and to take part in the making of history as the Heritage Trail dedicated…
Tabernacle Requires More Fixes; Architects Call for a New Roof
Tabernacle Requires More Fixes; Architects Call for a New Roof
By CHRIS BURRELL
The bill to restore the Tabernacle was supposed to run just $1 million and cover the basics: new stained-glass windows, re-flashing the roof and a serious scrape-and-paint job of the rusting iron structure.
But three years after…
Rabbi Broitman: Hebrew Center Is Embracing a New Arrival
It was a reverent and quietly momentous occasion. Sixty-three years after its incorporation by 10 Island families, the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center installed its first full-time rabbi. Saying, "We do this with the hope and expectation in our hearts that this blessing of having you as our spiritual leader will enable all of us to…
Measuring the Summer: Seasonal Pace Slows a Bit; Is Vineyard in Transition?
Traffic was down, but parking tickets were up. The weather was changeable; ditto for the restaurant and retail business. The wild blueberries were not so hot, but the fishing was great – lots of big bass and small bluefish, and on the full moon in July the fluke were so thick in some places you…
Hallgate Is Cleared of Its Junked Cars
Hallgate Is Cleared of Its Junked Cars
Edgartown Officials Tour Subdivision, and Are Pleased After Year’s Effort; Now, the Lot Next Door
By MANDY LOCKE
It was a moment Edgartown officials doubted would ever come.
Town leaders peered down the narrow dirt drive winding through Hallgate Wednesday…
Cronkite Withdraws Ad Against Turbines
Walter Cronkite, who has for months publicly opposed the Cape Wind project being proposed for Nantucket Sound, yesterday announced he has reconsidered – and his commercials on the subject will be withdrawn from the airwaves. Mr. Cronkite said he now prefers to be a more objective observer of both the process and project.
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County Makes Offer on Manager’s Post
County Makes Offer on Manager’s Post
By ALEXIS TONTI
Dukes County commissioners last night offered the job of county manager to E. Winn Davis, executive secretary of the town of Hanson. In his return visit to the Island, Mr. Davis described himself as a consensus builder who believes that Dukes County…
