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 18, 2008
Bodhi Path Offers Weekend Insight Meditation Retreats
Lama Tsony is back at the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center of Martha’s Vineyard in West Tisbury for a weekend retreat series. Known for his experience, and appreciated for his warmth, wit and accessibility, Lama Tsony teaches throughout Europe and the U.S. On Saturday and Sunday, July 19 and 20, and Saturday and Sunday July 26…
It’s Tunes from Noon to Moonrise at Cliffs: Aquinnah Music Festival is Saturday
WVVY,93.7 FM, the Island’s fledgling community radio station, has struggled to raise funds since it began broadcasting last December, but tomorrow WVVY is going for it all with its first Aquinnah Music Festival. The nine-hour live music fundraiser at the Cliffs in Aquinnah offers a dozen acts spanning American musical genres from rock to rap,…
West Tisbury
JOHN S. ALLEY 508-693-2950 (alleys@vineyard.net) The weekend weather was superb. It really felt like summer, people seemed to be everywhere and the traffic was heavy. On the other hand, last week the sun began setting at least two minutes earlier each day as we slowly head toward fall. It is summer and we are not…
Esplanade Tops Annual Event, Diversity in Dance
Paul Taylor’s gravity-defying masterwork Esplanade, danced to Bach by the Taylor 2 company, tops a packed lineup for this year’s Diversity in Dance, the annual showcase of dance sponsored by The Yard. The performance begins Sunday, July 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, with a…
Beware the Jabberwock? Not Here! Campers’ Annual Show Is Sheer Talent
Broadway could take a page from the Camp Jabberwocky rehearsal schedule. In the past couple of weeks, amid horseback rides, a Mad Max sail and fishing on the Skipper with a special lookout for the 18-foot shark in our waters, on the nights of July 15 and 16, the 30 campers and 28 counselors mounted…
Island Boys Become L.A. Billionaires With Pop Release Really Real Forever
Tim Laursen, who writes the majority of the lyrics for The Billionaires, looks through his screen porch out at the woodland behind his family’s Vineyard Haven home, and tries to explain his song-writing method. “Okay, popping into my head right now, wood,” he says, humming a tune and then seamlessly cranking out a lyric: “Must…
Oak Bluffs
BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net)
Clambake, Auction Raises Funds for Nursing Agency
It’s a benefit bivalve banquet: come to the annual clambake and auction to raise money for the Vineyard Nursing Association, the Island’s only home health care agency, on Wednesday, July 23, at 6 p.m. at The Field Gallery in West Tisbury.
String Quartet Will Open Chappy Music Festival
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival opens its 2008 season on Thursday, July 24 at 8 p.m. with a performance by the Jupiter String Quartet. The concert will be held at the Chappaquiddick Community Center. Called by the New York Sun “one of the strongest young string quartets in the country,” the quartet includes violinists Nelson…
Edgartown Yacht Club Lists Top Regatta Racers
These were the top finishers in the 85th Annual Regatta of the Edgartown Yacht Club, held from July 10 through 12. Wianno Senior Division (21 boats) 1, Cochenoe, Donald Law; 2, Yankee Dime, Frank Saul; 3, Cheerful, Lloyd B. McManus Jr.; 4, Heritage, John Fallon; 5, Aurora, Holly Edmonds; 6, Dauntless, Jeff Tracy; 7, Lente…
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE 508-627-5349 (kathleencase@comcast.net) The days have been beautiful and the gardeners are looking for rain. Maybe it could be sun by day, rain by night and everyone would be happy. Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Happy birthday to Justin Chapman who celebrated his 24th birthday July 16. Justin,…
The Powder, the Glory
The Powder, the Glory See it before it comes to PBS in early 2009: The Powder and the Glory, produced and directed by seasonal Menemsha resident Arnie Reisman and Ann Carol Grossman, will screen at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven on Sunday evening, July 20, at 7:30 p.m.
Chamber Society Concert Returns to Classical Roots
Delores Stevens, pianist and artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, will join a quintet of musicians from the Music from Salem festival series in two concert performances July 21 and 22. After a genre-stretching foray into jazz chamber music with Billy Childs and the Infiniti Brass, the society, now at the midpoint…
Spirituals at East Chop Lighthouse: Free at Five
Spirituals at East Chop Lighthouse: Free at Five The Martha’s Vineyard Museum will present the second in their summer Free at Five series on Wednesday, July 23, at the East Chop Lighthouse in Oak Bluffs. The lighthouse will be open free of charge to the public beginning at 5 p.m., followed by a performance by…
Temperatures
Temperature: Precip. Day Max. Min. Inches. Fº Fº July 11 84 60 .00 July 12 81 59 .00 July 13 82 66 .00 July 14 80 69 .00 July 15 84 65 .16 July 16 85 61 .00 July 17 84 61 .00
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 78º F.
Holmes Hole Sailors Race in Vineyard Haven Waters
Holmes Hole Sailors Race In Vineyard Haven Waters The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its Thursday evening series of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a 6 p.m. race on July 10. It was a warm, hazy evening with a fresh southwest wind of 10 to 15 knots. Ten boats posted for the…
You Can Only Liv Once: Taylor Plays at Tabernacle
An Evening with Livingston Taylor at the Tabernacle, his only concert on the Vineyard this summer, will be tomorrow, Saturday, July 19, 8 p.m.
All Ages Can See Green in Miyazaki’s Anime Film Classic
JAY ALEXANDER BROWN Hold on to your hat, because on Tuesday, July 22, the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle will be whisked away to the Valley of the Wind.
Vineyard Haven Yacht Club Marks 80th Anniversary
The Vineyard Haven Yacht Club will celebrate its 80th anniversary this Saturday with fun activities and races all day and a big party at night. The celebration will be a bit of a farewell party. Plans have been approved to tear the clubhouse down this winter and build a new and more functional one in…
Tennis Pro of Year
Tennis Pro of Year Scott Smith, executive director of Vineyard Youth Tennis, recently received the regional pro of the year award from the U.S. Professional Tennis Association. The award was presented at the annual convention held in Stratton Mountain, Vt. Mr. Smith was also elected in February to the association’s Eastern New England board of…
Welcome Grady
Welcome Grady Julia Stunkel and Glenn Stalgren of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Grady Patrick Stalgren, on July 3 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Grady weighed 6 pounds at birth.
Chapter Nine: Ecology of the Economy
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after years in Manhattan to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe loathes Richard Moby, chief of the off-Island landscaping business Broadway. He is irrationally convinced that Moby wants to destroy…
SSA Considers Cutting Some Trips
Just about everyone who lives year-round on the Vineyard has done it — made a booking for the last ferry of the day, on the off chance of running late, then driven onto an earlier boat. It’s a convenient, no-cost precaution for customers of the Steamship Authority, but for the SSA itself, the practice is…
A Shark Drops By
A Shark Drops By It didn’t take much. A large shark was sighted on the morning of July tenth off South Beach in Edgartown. Within twenty-four hours, three Island beaches had been closed and reopened, a false sighting hoax at Joseph A. Sylvia State Beach had been perpetrated, and media around the world had picked…
Hello, Joshua
Hello, Joshua Susanna Ungar of Edgartown and New York city announces the birth of a son, Joshua Samuel Ungar, born on July 4 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Joshua weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces at birth.
Full Moon
Tonight’s full moon resides in the zodiacal constellation Sagittarius and has a companion. The bright planet Jupiter is nearby. The two are a handsome pair and shine together through the night in the southern sky. For those venturing to South Beach, the two celestial objects will hang together, making the water sparkle underneath.
Firemen Mount Effort to Bring Historic Pumper Truck Back Home to Oak Bluffs
A group of spirited Oak Bluffs retired firefighters, friends of firefighters and firefighters are trying to bring Engine No. 2 home. The old 1929 Mack fire truck has wandered New England roads for years, staying in different communities. Wherever it has gone, the little truck has earned favor, appearing in plenty of Fourth of July…
Fido and Kitty on Holiday
Fido and Kitty on Holiday
Aquinnah
JUNE MANNING 508-645-2574 (lthslnks@gis.net) Arnold Zack and Leslie Haughton Zemsky will have their Show of Landscapes by a Pair of Aquinnah Friends, with the opening reception today at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard at Beetlebung Corner from 5 to 7 p.m.
Iranian Women’s Rugs Form Mansion House Show
This past fall, three American women went camping with the Qashqai nomads in the mountains of southwestern Iran. They came back from their travels with amazing stories and, perhaps more impressive still, with the hand-woven Qashqai rugs known as Gabbehs. Now these Gabbeh rugs, made by small collectives of nomadic women, are the focus of…
Doctors Prepped: People Come From All Over to Get Sick Here
In the summer, there is no such thing as a slow night for the Tisbury ambulance association.
Working Girl Discovers Island Again
Having lived on the Vineyard for over four years (these stretches of time sometimes get hazy on the Vineyard watch) I realized I had never been a passenger from the mainland to the Island on the Fourth of July.
Chilmark
JANE N. SLATER 508-645-3378 (slaterjn@comcast.net) The July full moon is here and the skies are clear enough for us to enjoy the wonderful light. The days may be hot but the evenings are pretty near perfect this week . . . hope you all are enjoying them.
Jaws Camera Man Shares Screen Favorites
Thomas Bena, founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, stood in front of a mostly full house at the Chilmark community center last Wednesday night, and shared an anecdote. “I can remember one night a few years ago when a man approached me on his way out the door. He told me that he appreciated…
Four Issues to Face Aquinnah Voters
Aquinnah selectmen will seek permission to issue one-day liquor licenses for events held on town-owned property, as well as authority to set policy related to the sale of town-owned land. The two proposals are contained in a four-article warrant being prepared for a special town meeting next month. Residents again will be asked to vote…
Gazette Chronicle: Captain’s Logs
Hedline From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1958: Ever hear of the Demarcation Point? The map will show it on the top side of Alaska, near the Siberian border. That is where Capt. Stephen Cottle of Chilmark, commanding the steam whaler Belvedere, picked up the crew of the wrecked Elvira, one of the vessels…
Black Point Pond Sandpiper
The beach is the place to be. July’s hot weather this summer beckons people to a place to jump into the ocean, sound or pond to cool off. Now there are a bunch of us who wear weird-looking long pants that zip off at the knees, long-sleeved shirts with a label that says “Buzz off”…
Chappy
JO-ANN TILGHMAN 508-627-7669 (tilghmanjb@aol.com) We are constantly reminded that Chappy is a wild and beautiful place that we share with the animals that are found on land and in the waters surrounding our island. Just such a reminder was sent to me by Chris Kennedy of The Trustees of Reservations in this report of the…
Alan Dershowitz’s Rules of Torture
People packed into the Chilmark Public Library last week — finding spots on the floor, standing in the back, even watching from the windows — to see Alan Dershowitz explain why torture should be allowed through a warrant. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, or so the song goes. And Mr. Dershowitz,…
Annual Shark Tournament Starts Today
To many people in this country and across the world, Martha’s Vineyard is shark central. And here at shark central, a tradition continues this weekend in the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament which in recent years has generated controversy. Thousands of people are expected to pack the tournament weigh station near Our Market this afternoon…
Store Battles Cancer
Store Battles Cancer A month after the launch of the Triple Winner Game, Stop & Shop’s annual campaign to raise funds toward research and treatment of pediatric cancer, the company’s Vineyard Haven store has raised $4,144 toward the effort. The chain so far has collected $1.4 million in this year’s campaign.
The Vineyard Gardener
By LYNNE IRONS What’s up with the salmonella on tomatoes? I have several thoughts on the subject. Bear with me as they are somewhat disjointed. First of all, big farmers are plowing up their fields as the market is so bad and they are trying to get another crop of something else into the ground…
East Chop
RICK HERRICK 508-693-8065 herricklr@verizon.net Dr. John A. Hargreaves, son of Jack and Ute Hargreaves, left for Iraq last month armed with a doctorate in biology and a heart filled with idealism. John is part of an assessment team from Texas A& M University that is exploring ways to rehabilitate agriculture in that war-torn country. His…
FEMA Trailer, Hot Brass Band Roll In To Aid Gulf Coast
Time does not heal all wounds, at least for the Gulf Coast, which is why, three years after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, Finding Our Folk, the New Orleans Hot 8 Brass Band, and the KatrinaRitaVille Express Trailer are coming to the Vineyard this weekend, under the leadership of Derrick Evans.
Learn About Lobsters
Learn About Lobsters What’s the life of a lobster really like? Find out when the film Realm of the Lobster screens free on Wednesday, July 23, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library. The movie, appropriate for adults and children, explores the daily life of these remarkable crustaceans as they battle for survival against…
Brightening Young Smiles With Good Dentistry
Oral health is an essential component of overall health. Nearly half of all children have experienced dental decay by the time they reach the third grade. Nationally, 51 million school hours are lost each year due to dental disease. For children, poor oral health can interrupt life’s most basic activities, such as eating, sleeping, speaking…
Researcher Will Speak About Osprey on Island
Researcher Will Speak About Osprey on Island Rob Bierregaard began researching osprey on the Vineyard in 1969. Since then, he has been investigating the habits and migrations of these birds on the Island and beyond. He will share his passion at a free lecture at the Oak Bluffs library on Tuesday, July 29, at 6:30…
Celebrating 50 Years at Polly Hill’s Garden
The Polly Hill Arboretum is full of special trees, but if there is one which is more special than all the rest, according to executive director Tim Boland, it is a magnolia Mrs. Hill planted more than 40 years ago.
What makes it extra special is not its beauty or it rarity, although…
Iraq Veterans Turn Warrior Writers, Performing Out of Uniform at Che’s
“You are not my enemy/ my grandmother my grandfather. I built walls between us./ Rubble made sound sand scattered plastic bags all around rifles and checkpoints/bright lights into your eyes…”
Dragonfly Program
Dragonfly Program Odonates — better known as dragonflies and damselflies — are one of the most beautiful and interesting groups of insects. Explore them in a program at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary today, July 18, at 1 p.m. In this program, Massachusetts Audubon regional scientist Robert Buchsbaum will go through the basics of dragonfly and…
Sing? Dance? Act Silly? It’s Blowout Variety Night
It’s another blowout variety night! See what happens on Monday, July 21, at 8 p.m. at Katharine Cornell Theatre (second floor of Tisbury Town Hall) on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. This annual extravaganza welcomes the audience on a first come, first seated basis; there are no reservations. And there’s a special ticket price, just…
Morning Glory’s Story
Morning glory hallelujah! Walt Whitman might have sung the praise of this flower since he noted that “a morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” Another famed poet, Henry David Thoreau, concurred. In his tribute he observed that this flower is “well named morning glory. Its broad, bell and…
Gas Water Heater in Basement Sparked Vineyard Haven Fire
Tisbury fire officials have determined that the devastating Independence Day fire that destroyed Café Moxie and badly damaged the Bunch of Grapes bookstore was accidental in nature and started inside a gas-fed water burner in the basement of the restaurant. Assistant fire chief James Rogers, a state-certified fire investigator, said yesterday that the fire started…
Gallery-Hopping on a Summer Evening: Artists’ Receptions Add to the Pleasure
Alison Shaw Gallery Fine are photography of Alison Shaw. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m., or by appointment at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs, tel. 508-696-7429 or online alisonshaw.com. Current exhibit: Yellow, continues through July 25. Abode Gallery and Shop Paintings, photography and sculpture. Open by appointment at 224 Oak Lane,…
Girls Guns and Glory
Girls Guns and Glory Boston-based band Girls Guns and Glory plays Friday at the Offshore Ale in Oak Bluffs on Friday night from about 10 p.m. The band won a Boston Music Award last year and in 2008, the WBCN Rumble — the first roots, rock and country act to ever win the Rumble. One…
Letters to the Editor
CLOCK REPAIR Editors, Vineyard Gazette: In light of the devastating fire on Main street Vineyard Haven, I think it would be a great civic gesture if NStar would find a live circuit that could be used for a temporary feed to the Bunch of Grapes clock. This would provide an instant symbol of renewal, both…
The Fishermen
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL The commercial striped bass season began this week with a whimper. The fishermen are out hunting for this highly prized fish, but their landings are off. Striped bass are local and one of the few species that are plentiful and available at fish markets and restaurants to sell. Bluefish comes a…
Wild Turkey Terror Reigns in Up-Island Rural Neighborhood
While the bullet-riddled corpse of a feral turkey lies stiff in a Chilmark police freezer, a fuller picture of its violent past on Old Ridge Road and the surrounding neighborhood is emerging.
Police Charge Needham Man in Boating Accident
Oak Bluffs police last Friday charged a Needham man with boating under the influence of alcohol after he reportedly ran his boat aground along Seaview avenue near Sengekontacket Pond. Andrew Tappe, 47, was charged with boating while under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a boat and operating an unregistered boat.
Trinity Episcopal Church Sets Services, Evensong
On Sunday, July 20 and Sunday, July 27, the Rev. Ronald E. Ramsey, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Arlington will be the celebrant and preacher at Trinity Episcopal Church, Oak Bluffs. The chapel is opposite the Steamship Authority wharf in Oak Bluffs. The service begins at 9 a.m. Dr. Ramsey is a graduate…
Democratic Senate Candidates Visit Island in Search of Money
They began descending on Martha’s Vineyard yesterday, the most powerful people in the Democratic Party, and their big money backers, for a few days of schmoozing and fund raising and plotting the way to victory in November.
July 11: Sunny and Warm
Friday, July 11: Sunny and warm. Tiger lilies and daylilies are in full bloom in a Vineyard Haven backyard. The sky is deep blue in the morning. Hazy sunshine in the afternoon. In Edgartown, sailboats return from a day of sailing in the afternoon. Saturday, July 12: Calm morning on Nantucket Sound. More than 30…
No Real Threat: Shark Experts Seek to Calm the Public Fears
Scientists and naturalists working on and near the Vineyard worry that recent reported sightings of great white sharks near the Island will feed fears that get ahead of the facts. Naturalist Gus Ben David, shark expert Greg Skomal and oceanographer Anthony Wood downplayed the threat to humans from sharks.
Corrections
Corrections Contrary to an article in Tuesday’s edition, Rob Goldfarb, development director of the Farm Institute in Katama, is older than his brother, Matthew, executive director of the institute. The Gazette regrets the error. • A photo caption in Tuesday’s edition misidentified a singer performing at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown for a benefit…
Announcing Emmanuel
Announcing Emmanuel Jussara Sampoa and Wellingdon Pessoa of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Emmanuel Henrique Sampaid Pessoa, on July 12 at Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Emmanuel weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces at birth.
Art in the Lee of Chappy Ferry, As Young Take Over Old Sculpin
It’s nowhere near Halloween, and yet 16 masks took shape in the Old Sculpin Gallery in Edgartown on Friday. Children’s art classes have been an integral part of this gallery since its inception in 1954. The Old Sculpin is a nonprofit organization maintained by Martha’s Vineyard Art Association Inc. The building, which originally housed the…
Azorean Came With a Crown Fit for a Feast
“I landed in Cottage City in February of 1882, after a short stay on the mainland,” wrote the late Manuel S. deBettencourt in an open letter to the citizens of Oak Bluffs. The letter is undated, but Oak Bluffs town archives show that Mr. deBettencourt was first elected selectman in 1925. The letter was a…
Vineyard Haven
NANCY GARDELLA 508-693-3308 (vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)
Welcome Harrison
Welcome Harrison Randy A. Lazarus and Elizabeth Adams Barnes announce the birth of a son, Harrison Adams Barnes Lazarus, born May 9 at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. He weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces.
