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 7, 2007
Valerie Sonnenthal Shows Photographs at Library
An exhibition of 11 works from the Blur Series of photographic triptychs by Valerie Sonnenthal is presented at the West Tisbury library until Sept. 23 during regular library hours.
Edgartown School Welcomes New Principal
Much has changed between the time 54-year-old John W. Stevens graduated from the Edgartown School and yesterday, when he welcomed the students and parents on opening day and introduced himself as their new school principal. But for the veteran educator, who comes from running large schools in Florida, the scene was familiar enough.
Pequot Exhibition
Pequot Exhibition The Pequot Hotel is getting ready for its annual art exhibition. For the past seven years the Pequot has hosted an art show displaying many of the Island’s new and seasoned artists as well as others from Rhode Island and New York. This year’s two-day exhibition will open Saturday, Oct. 13 with an…
Mr. Moujabber Files an Appeal
In an unexpected twist, Joseph G. Moujabber, the Oak Bluffs resident who built a three-story garage along the North Bluff without a permit, has appealed the recent decision by a Dukes County superior court judge to annul a demolition order and send the garage back to a town architectural board for fresh review.
Pre-Derby Gallery Party Fetes the Art of Fishing
Hook into the Derby on Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Louisa Gould Gallery, with live music, refreshments and first viewing of the benefit invitational Derby exhibition involving some 25 Island artists. From 5 to 6 p.m. Ed Jerome will be signing the book he edited with Ray Ellis’s fishing art. The…
Bass and Bluefish Derby Begins; First Weigh-in Sunday Morning
Roy Langley, weigh master for the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, will ring a cowbell at 8 a.m. sharp Sunday morning. Once that cowbell rings, at the entrance to the official derby headquarters at the foot of Main street in Edgartown, the Vineyard will become an entirely different place. From that moment on,…
Chilmark Concert
Chilmark Concert Don’t miss the last summer concert and community hymn sing: join Lia Kahler, some of her students and fellow Methodist musicians on tonight, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at Chilmark Community Church. The concert and sing will be followed by refreshments in the community room. Proceeds from the freewill offering will be used…
A Way to Expand West Tisbury Tax Base: Stage a Musical
Thirteen point seven billion years, cosmologists now feel, is the time it took for our universe to get its act together and produce the primordial ooze from which intelligent beings eventually emerged.
Walk on Two Legs (or Four) to Help Homeless Animals
The MSPCA is inviting everyone in the animal-loving community (and their dogs!) to join the annual Walk for Animals at the Edgartown School on Sunday, Sept. 9, a fundraiser to support the Island’s homeless animals. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. with the walk starting at noon. When walkers (two and four-legged) return to the school,…
August 31: Mostly Sunny
Friday, August 31: Mostly sunny. High flying cirrus clouds. Ocean Park grass is green despite the recent drought. Waban Park grass is brown. Oak Bluffs beaches bustle with sunbathers. Sailboats move slowly across Nantucket Sound toward Edgartown. Starry night.
Rev. Richard L. Fenn
On Sunday, Sept. 9 the preacher and celebrant at the closing service for the summer season at Trinity Episcopal Church will be the Rev. Richard L. Fenn. The service will complete the celebration of the church’s 125th year of service to the Oak Bluffs community. As usual, the service will begin at 9 a.m. The…
Tisbury School Class of 1942
Tisbury School Class of 1942 gathered Wednesday at Farm Neck to celebrate their 65th reunion as graduating high school seniors from the school. In front from left was Kathryn Baptiste, Tina Frank Lamb, Doris Cleveland, June Cronig, Marjorie Jo Allen, Barbara Cottle and George John Rogers. In rear from left was Arthur Dickson, Stanley Cronig,…
Wheel Test for Skaters Young and Old
School is back in full swing and already there is a test. This time, it’s not a question of passing or failing, but of doing the best trick and bringing home the cash. So put down the number two pencils and break out the skateboards. Saturday, skaters of all ages and all levels are invited…
The Fishermen
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL Thirty years ago, the invention of the electronic fish finder helped fishermen out in their boats find fish. Today’s great device, the computer hooked up to the Internet, helps the rest of us find fishermen who know where to find the fish. The culture of the Internet has helped charter fishing…
Aquinnah May Work With Tribe, Chilmark to Help Manage Pond
Approval of a mussel farm permit this week may lead to a collegial effort to clean up Menemsha Pond. In the process of approving Hollis Smith’s aquaculture permit request, conversation expanded to disclose informal discussions between Chilmark and Aquinnah town officials and Wampanoag tribal members to work together to clean the pond. Menemsha Pond waters…
Gazette Chronicle: 25 Years Ago
25 Years Ago From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1982:
Naming the Living
It is too much to hope for that my work and my words will be relevant and useful in 300 years. Perhaps it is egotistical to even pose the question, but on the anniversary of a wordsmithing botanist’s birth, I am thinking about persistence. Not, as often is the case in this column, the persistence…
Moon and Venus
Remember Venus hanging low in the southwestern sky after sunset during summer? Tomorrow morning you’ll find the same brilliant planet low in the eastern sky before sunrise. It is a dramatic shift. Tomorrow morning Venus is joined by the crescent moon. The two are close together. They both rise together as daylight approaches. Sunrise is…
English Channel Will Appear at Playhouse
The Vineyard Playhouse is extending its season through September with a limited run of Robert Brustein’s new play The English Channel, a comic and provocative imagining of William Shakespeare’s coming of age as a playwright.
Organizers Meet to Plan Vineyard CROP Walk
An organizational meeting to prepare for the 2007 Vineyard CROP Walk for world hunger will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at Grace Church on Woodlawn avenue in Vineyard Haven. Monday’s meeting is when this year’s recruiters will gather to prepare for the 17th annual 10-kilometer walk, scheduled this year for Sunday, Oct.…
Grant Will Help Train Nurses for Windemere
Grant Will Help Train Nurses for Windemere The state has announced the award of a $104,974 workforce training fund grant to Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. The grant will fund a program to train 10 employees to become licensed practical nurses in 10 months. In addition to the grant, Windemere will…
Permanent Endowment Invites Grant Applications
Permanent Endowment Invites Grant Applications The Permanent Endowment Fund, the Island’s community foundation, is accepting grant requests for programs addressing Vineyard needs and issues. “We have unrestricted funds able to support a wide range of programs being developed and planned by local nonprofit organizations and public charities,” fund chairman Debbie Hale said.
The Vineyard Gardener
Don’t even get me started about the use of public land by private corporations.
Parking at a Price
The county parking clerk is currently making the rounds among Island selectmen with a pitch to increase the fees for parking violations. Clerk Carol Grant’s reasoning goes something like this: the minimum fee for overtime parking of ten dollars is too low and hardly a deterrent for a summer person who has another ten bucks…
Werewolves Wear Socks Under Full Moon
By BRAD WOODGER
Aquinnah
JUNE MANNING 508-645-2574 (lthslnks@gis.net) The Aquinnah Wampanoag Teen Group will be sponsoring its third annual powwow tomorrow at Aquinnah Circle. Doors open at 10 a.m. with the grand entry at noon. Festivities continue through 6 p.m. There will be Native American dance, drumming, and singing with guests from several tribes across New England. Vendors will…
Windsurfing for a Cause
One local favorite capsized twice in his kayak. Of the fifteen windsurfers who entered a race around the Island, two finished. Sailboats called for a minimum of three hands: one on the tiller, one on the main sheet and one on the bilge pump. All in all, there probably were easier ways to raise money…
West Tisbury to Scrub Up Ideas For Cleaning Out Mill Pond
A public forum will be scheduled soon to discuss cleaning up the West Tisbury Mill Pond, allowing residents to participate in a 60-year ritual that has never provided a lasting solution despite some thoughtful, creative and occasionally bizarre proposals. Mill Pond aesthetics have engendered great passion for three generations since the property was gifted to…
Chilmark
JANE N. SLATER 508-645-3378 (slaterjn@comcast.net) Chilmark celebrated the last holiday weekend of the summer with enthusiasm. There were picnics and parties at the beach all through days and evenings and all the events scheduled around town were well-attended. Now to try and catch up with all the chores that we have left undone during the…
Trophy Houses
Trophy houses, as a group, are bad for the Vineyard. They are huge blots on our rural Island landscape. Summer people are overwhelmingly responsible for creating them. Do summer people create them out of ignorance? Or lack of taste? Or excessive pride? Or out of sheer, don’t-give-a-damn arrogance? In my opinion, all of the above.…
Creative Drama Sessions Launched for Children
Phyllis Vecchia begins another of her popular creative drama workshops for children ages four and half to eleven, this fall at the Oak Bluffs School. The classes will be held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Classes begin on Tuesday, Oct. 2, and Thursday, Oct. 4, and run for eight weeks.
Rare Sightings
Whoa, where do I start? This long weekend brought several goodies for the Vineyard birders. It all started on Thursday, August 30, when Dick Jennings, who runs the Cape Pogue trips for The Trustees of Reservations, called in the morning to say he had spotted a marbled godwit at Cape Pogue the day before and…
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE 508-627-5349 (kcase1@verizon.net) The street sweeper has been by the house a few times, and has been in and around the school. The maintenance men were out sweeping the sidewalks and making sure all looked beautiful. For the first day of school, everyone is hustling. Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this…
Equestrian Passion Drives Island Woman
At an age when most people her age are enjoying the beach or hanging out with their friends, 23-year-old Robyn Hanover of West Tisbury can usually be found in a horse barn. And while she spends much of that time doing what she loves — riding her horse and training for equestrian competitions with a…
Garden Club Holds August Meeting
The regular August program of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club featured Jo-Ann Taylor, the coastal planner for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for the past 16 years, who spoke about threats to water quality on the Vineyard. In other club developments, Pat Adler and Laura Lee were installed as president and president-elect.
Notes on an Art Project: Cindy Kane Shapes Writers’ Scrawl into the Sublime
Few people ever see the raw notes – the raw thoughts – of a writer they admire. They don’t know the handwriting of a favorite novelist or journalist, or what kind of notebook, grade of paper or color of ink the writer prefers. But every writer has a process of transmitting thoughts into printed words.…
Chappy
MARGARET KNIGHT 508-627-8894 (margaret02539@yahoo.com) Despite the seriousness of the drought we are in, the September sun is too beautiful not to be celebrated. Its delicious warmth heats the cooler breezes and piercing clarity contrasts nicely with the deep blue skies, making it a great time to get to the beach except early or late in…
School Lunch
Charter School Monday, Sept. 10: Baked Ham, pasta and vegetable salad, applesauce and milk. Tuesday, Sept. 11: Tomato vegetable soup, hot dog or tofu dog on a roll, fruit smoothie and milk. Wednesday, Sept. 12: Salad wraps (chicken Caesar salad or hummus and veggie), banana bread, raisins and milk. Thursday, Sept. 13: Pizza (plain cheese,…
Vineyarder Teams Quick Off the Marks With Wins and Strong Season Outlook
With two wins already under their belt, the high school golf team is off to a fast start. Anchored by Tony Grillo, arguably the best young golfer in the state, who recently won his second consecutive Massachusetts junior championship, many already are calling the team a lock to make the state tournament. But in the…
Drum Beat Calls Ivy Leaguers, Islanders to Powwow at Cliffs
The third annual Aquinnah Youth Powwow on Sunday will have an Ivy League flavor. Not that Polos and Dockers will replace traditional breech clouts and jingle dresses, but this year the event, hosted by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), will include 120 graduate students from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, courtesy…
Vineyard Haven
NANCY GARDELLA 508-693-3308 (vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com) Kids on the corners — how fast this summer flew by, and now they’re lining up for the buses. We wish all students the best for the coming school year. Keep an eye out on the roads, especially in the mornings and at dismissal time.
Temperatures
Temperature: Precip. Day Max. Min. Inches. Fº Fº August 31 86 63 .00 Sept. 1 82 64 .05 Sept. 2 77 54 .00 Sept. 3 78 56 .00 Sept. 4 80 63 .00 Sept. 5 80 54 .00 Sept. 6 77 57 .00
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 71º F.
Cited for Fuel Dock Violations, Ralph Packer Pledges Repairs
Imminent closure of the Edgartown Marine harbor fuel dock because of fire safety violations was averted yesterday, but only after some urgent and at times comic shuttle diplomacy involving state and town officials and the fuel supplier R.M. Packer Company. A spokesman for the state Department of Fire Services yesterday confirmed that the department is…
Tivoli Day Fun Run
Tivoli Day Fun Run Start the Tivoli Day festivities on Sept. 15 with the sixth annual George V. Tankard Memorial Martha’s Vineyard NAACP 5K Road Race and one-mile Fun Run. The fun run begins at 9:30 a.m. from the Wesley Hotel on the Oak Bluffs harbor, and the 5K begins at 10 a.m. from the bus…
East Chop
RICK HERRICK 508-693-8065 herricklr@verizon.net Have you noticed Bill Dennehy walking the Chop recently? It’s strange because by this time in the summer Bill is usually back at Exeter preparing to whip into shape another successful varsity soccer team.
Letters to the Editor
FLAGRANT CODE VIOLATIONS Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Moffett Race Welcomes Wide Field in Island Sailing Finale
The 30th annual George Moffett Race will have more than one winner. Organizers of this year’s contest, scheduled for tomorrow, hope all the sailors who participate will walk away from the contest with smiles. The Moffett Race is that kind of event. It has always been a contest involving a lot of sailing skill and…
Special Parents Group Meets Under New Name
The Martha’s Vineyard Special Parents Association has changed its name to Vineyard Independence Partnership. Founded in 1983, the organization is a partnership of individuals with disabilities, their family members, and friends working to promote social activities, support independent living situations, encourage accessibility in the community, and advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Oak Bluffs
BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) The sun has moved to a new trajectory. Leaves on the tomato and squash plants curl and brown. The dill and rocket have gone to flower. Only the kale and collards grow strong awaiting winter’s frost to sweeten each leaf. Summer flower and garden beds will be cleaned and composted;…
Oak Bluffs School Secretary Charged With Embezzlement
A secretary at the Oak Bluffs School has been charged with embezzling more than $15,000 from a school account by forging the principal’s name on several checks and then keeping the money. Susan T. Peters, 59, of Oak Bluffs, was summonsed last week on charges of larceny by a single scheme over $250, forgery of…
Edward Brooke Reflects on Long Political Career
You might expect the first black man ever popularly elected as a United States senator would be out there rooting for the election of the first black President. But no. Edward W. Brooke has never thought race — or gender, for that matter — had anything to do with worthiness.
Enrolling Kids in Etiquette Class? Say Please
Heather Rogero at the Martha’s Vineyard School of Etiquette has opened enrollment for the fall sessions of her Classy Little Ladies courses in manners, poise and style. The five-session course for girls ages 5 through 12 begins the first week in October. Students are placed in age groups, with friendship preference available. Each class is…
West Tisbury
JOHN S. ALLEY 508-693-2950 (alleys@vineyard.net)
Senior Art Show
Senior Art Show An art show featuring the work of the Island’s senior community will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center, located at 34 Pine Tree Road in Vineyard Haven. Entry categories are painting, photography, folk art, knitting, quilting, ceramics and wood. There is…
Farm Neck Tennis Open Raises Funds for Charity
The weekend of fun and tennis last weekend was a smashing success on all counts. The large gathering at the opening party for the Farm Neck Tennis Open bid generously at the auction to play with guest tennis pros, Luke and Murphy Jensen, along with notable Island pros. Forty young tennis enthusiasts showed up for…
Phil DaRosa Celebrates Better Days at Outerland
Celebrate the release of the Phil daRosa Band’s debut album Better Days with an all-ages party tonight, Friday, Sept. 7, at Outerland at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport. Tickets are $10; doors open at 9 p.m.
Report Mixed On Cape Wind
A staff report released by the Cape Cod Commission this week gives a decidedly mixed review to the controversial plan by Cape Wind Associates to build 130 wind turbines on Horseshoe Shoal. The report finds that Cape Wind’s plan to connect the turbines to land in West Yarmouth through underwater electricity transmission lines meets only…
Press Too Quiet on Missing Brazilian Man
There’s an old saying, if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The old cliche could be applied to the case of Renato Gomes Da Rocha, a 48-year-old Brazilian national who disappeared from the Island without a trace almost 18 months ago. On…
Sun Salutations for the Masses Fronting Nantucket Sound
There is no clock on the wall of this yoga class. In fact, there are no walls at all, only the blue sky overhead and the wide open ocean. The laughter and chatter of the Polar Bears and the blare of the ferry horn take the place of the soothing, meditative chants typically played during…
