Jane Kenyon
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. I am the heart contracted by joy, the longest hair, white before the rest.-Jane Kenyon
August 21, 2007
Island Plan Series Heads to Final Round With Wednesday Forum on Development
Island Plan Series Heads to Final Round With Wednesday Forum on Development
By MIKE SECCOMBE
After 18 months of research and meetings, benign intentions and utopian visions for future of the Vineyard, tomorrow will mark the point, predicted Jim Athearn, where the rubber really hits the road.
Wednesday evening is…
As Sale Nears, Thimble Farm Could Be Lost
Andrew Woodruff, the owner of Whippoorwill Farm who is best known for bringing community supported agriculture to the Vineyard, is scrambling to put together a group to buy Thimble Farm to block a sale of the farm to a private buyer.
The deadline is August 28 and the outcome is at best uncertain.
Two of Us: Andrea and Jamie Rogers
Andrea and Jamie Rogers, artists and craftsmen, mother and daughter, are sharing the full menu of life, its joy of strong family and sorrow at the sudden loss two years ago of a husband and dad. They also share artistic achievement. Andrea and her husband Jim moved to the Vineyard in 1986 with their three…
Pigs Race, Women’s Skillets Fly at Weekend of Agricultural Fair
An account of the first Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Fair, which at the time was called simply the fair and cattle show, from the Oct. 14, 1859 edition of the Vineyard Gazette recounts that the show was “well attended by people from all parts of the County.”
Conversation With a Poet Laureate
First, start somewhere familiar. Chopping parsley in the kitchen. Listening to headphones on 44th street. Observing three-year-olds throw insults like Big Sewerface at a birthday party.
Then, follow a trail of crumbs into the woods. Better yet, find a rabbit hole and jump down it. Or pull the candle stick on the mantle…
Howard Dean Tells Democrats a New Day Is Coming in 2008
Howard Dean Tells Democrats a New Day Is Coming in 2008
By MIKE SECCOMBE
It’s scary what political parties know about you. Even Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee concedes that, although he relishes it too.
“We can tell you what magazines you read, what DVDs you…
