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
July 21, 2006
Schooner Accident Leaves Questions
Schooner Accident Leaves Questions
Family and Friends Gather to Mourn Death of Concord Eighteen-Year-Old Who Fell From Ship’s Rigging
By MAX HART and JAMES KINSELLA
Family and friends of Benjamin Sutherland, a young man who died last Friday after he fell from the rigging on the schooner Alabama, will…
Housing Bank Legislation Languishes as Lawmakers Ready to Recess Session
Housing Bank Legislation Languishes as Lawmakers Ready to Recess Session
By IAN FEIN
With the state legislative session set to expire in 10 days, a proposal to create public housing banks on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket appears to be effectively dead for the year.
SSA Prepares to Lauch Island Home This Morning at Gulf Coast Boat Yard
With the state legislative session set to expire in 10 days, a proposal to create public housing banks on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket appears to be effectively dead for the year. The special legislation – which would tax some real estate transactions to fund affordable housing initiatives – was still stuck in the house committee…
Patricia Nanon Is Still Dancing in Her Own Yard
Patricia Nanon is back in the barn. She may need her dancers as a barre to balance herself these days, she may choreograph with the aid of a rehearsal assistant, but there she is in the Chilmark studio that bears her name at The Yard. Now in her eighties, the tiny dancer who founded this…
Robert Murphy Has High Hopes for the Vineyard of the Future
Robert C. Murphy remembers his childhood winters in Oak Bluffs, when there were no movie theatres open and the bowling alley was the only source of social activity. Island children today by comparison have a bounty of entertainment and cultural opportunities – which Mr. Murphy sees as one of the many positive aspects of the…
These Teachers Spend Vacation at Work
Island teachers have their summers off in a place that is arguably one of the best in the world to spend the season – but few really embrace the vacation in summer vacation.
With demands for post-graduate degrees and a rising cost of living, many teachers leave the Vineyard to further their educations,…
