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
September 4, 2007
Complete Guide to Next Week’s Movies Across Vineyard Haven
Thursday, Sept. 13 Opening Night Party on the rooftop at the Mansion House Inn from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. with music from Phil DaRosa, dors d’oeuvres and Champagne and wines. Opening Night Film at the Capawock Theatre on Main street in Vineyard Haven. 8 p.m. The Owl and the Sparrow, a love story set in…
Island Students Head Back to School
Students won’t be the only ones with first-day jitters when schools across the Island open this week. It will be the first day for many teachers and administrators too, following the school system’s largest hiring in recent memory. There are new faces in the principal positions of four of the elementary schools and about 30…
Foreclosures Rise on Vineyard, Especially in Vineyard Haven
Driven by 23 foreclosures in Vineyard Haven during the first half of 2007, Island home foreclosure activity rose from 17 in 2006 to 40 for the same period in 2007, an increase of 235 per cent. Some evidence suggests the increase has ties to subprime lending, where lenders do business with borrowers who can’t obtain…
Football, Soccer, Field Hockey, Golf: Fall Sports Season Begins
As August heat gives way to the cooler temperatures of fall, so too changes the sporting landscape of the Vineyard. In recent weeks, beach volleyball and recreational league softball have been replaced by high school football, cross country and field hockey. Eight teams compete in six sports during the fall high school sports season, more…
Apple of the Island’s Eye
The breeze in the air on Friday, the last day of August, brought with it a hint of fall. The afternoon was clear and warm, but the wind felt cool. So it was a comfort to walk into the kitchen of the Magnuson home in West Tisbury, just shy of the Chilmark border, where the…
Attorney at Law Meets Finish Carpenter, and Home Improvement Is Redefined
Their individual personalities look like fire and ice. But family law attorney Linda Jackson and artisan carpenter Paul Hudson have forged a seven-year marriage that Ms. Jackson calls a friendship on fire. During an interview in their handcrafted, airy Edgartown home, they discussed how families, careers and life perspectives intersect to produce both prize-winning cupcakes…
On Berrying
It is almost the end of berry-hunting season, and that’s a pity. Berry picking offers an opportunity to enjoy songbirds, osprey and honking Canada geese overhead. Berry hunters out just before sundown may see deer leaping stone walls to spend the night in the depths of the woods. There are the sounds of nature to…
Thimble Farm Sale Sees a Reprieve
A deal to sell Thimble Farm to a private buyer is no longer on the table, allowing more time for Whippoorwill Farm owner Andrew Woodruff to put together his own bid to buy the farm. Thimble Farm owner Lawrence Benson confirmed yesterday that a private buyer who had offered to pay $2.3 million for the…
Windsurfing Challenge Marks 20th Year
The 20th anniversary of the Martha’s Vineyard Challenge was golden. The Saturday sailing and paddling event raised $14,423 for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services. High winds and bright sunshine made the day perfect for windsurfers and a challenge for sailors and paddlers. The 43 registered participants and their friends set a record in fundraising.
Police Report on Holiday Weekend
Island bars and restaurants were jumping this past Labor Day weekend, but police from Aquinnah to Oak Bluffs reported most people were on their best behavior and there were few notable incidents of depravity or disturbance. Police officials said the number of calls for service was up, although most were for more mundane indiscretions such…
Gazette Chronicle: Mr. Moll Recalls
By Henry Beetle Hough. From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1982:
“Don’t you think Tracy must have been the murderer?” “I know he was. He told me so.”
Owners Will Close, Renovate Harbor View Hotel
Edgartown’s venerable landmark hotel, the Harbor View Hotel, will close later this month for extensive renovations, probably not to reopen until late spring next year. Work on the kitchen, restaurant and rooms is expected to cost around $25 million and be done by May. It is the first phase of a two-year, $77 million project…
Letters to the Editor
The SSA has sunk low in displaying large gaudy advertising “art” in the new ferry. As usual, business interests, largely indifferent to values other than profit, have pulled strings and worked their will: to scribble their graffiti over every blessed empty public space.
High-Stepping Stallions Show Packs Islanders Cheek to Cheek
A flinty sun was dropping brilliantly, taking the temperature with it as the countdown to show time began Friday evening in the outdoor horse ring at the agricultural fair ground — but it was the gleaming white Lippizan stallions that shone.
Business Briefs
Red Cross Slates Workplace Safety Seminar The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands chapter will has scheduled a workplace safety informational seminar for Sept. 26 in Hyannis. The seminar will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Four Points by Sheraton Hyannis Resort at the West End Rotary.
Heating Pools from the Sun
A proposal by the Chilmark planning board to require solar thermal heating for swimming pools is an example of a small but meaningful step to make the Vineyard more energy self-sufficient. The idea also reflects a quiet yet crucial change in pursuing that worthy goal: shifting the self-sufficiency initiative from broad goals outlined by the…
Footprints in the Sand
Over the weekend a young girl, about middle school-aged, wandered into the community room at co-housing in West Tisbury just before a yoga class was set to begin. She knew the yoga instructor. “What’s new?” he asked her. “Back to school,” the affable child replied with a smile.
Correction
A story about the Menemsha Pond sailboat races in the Friday Gazette misspelled the name of Nicholas Karnovsky. The Gazette regrets the error.
Hudson River Reflections Show Transforms With New Works
Four Generations Art Gallery opened its second annual Hudson River this weekend, yet in the coming weeks the gallery will continually add new works featuring the river, its cliffs its now-vanished fishermen and its now transformed views of new York city. The Ortlip family maintained a studio for over 50 years atop the New Jersey…
