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 29, 2008
Edgartown Firemen Take Home the Gold
Edgartown firefighters won Sunday’s annual Dukes County Firefighters’ Muster held in Oak Bluffs. Close to 100 firefighters and their friends participated in four competitive events that demonstrated skill and speed. This is the second year in a row that Edgartown won. All Vineyard towns participated in the muster, and were joined by teams from Carver…
Sexing of Science: Author Discusses Maria Mitchell
On Tuesday, July 29, at 5 p.m. Prof. Renée Bergland as its next speaker in the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s summer lecture series. Dr. Bergland will speak on her book, Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science, a cultural biography of the 19th-century Nantucket astronomer. Maria Mitchell, a Nantucket native, apprenticed with her father, an amateur…
Says Who? Encyclopedic Couple Paula Lyons and Arnie Reisman, That’s Who
So a Jew and a Catholic go into a sushi restaurant . . . It sounds like the setup for a joke, but the first date for Arnie Reisman and Paula Lyons was not much fun. On the second date, though, he made her laugh. Now his jokes and her laugh have been features on…
Roots Icon Taj Mahal Hooks Pop Collaborators for Album
The laugh is still that down low rumble of thunder and a box car about to go out of service, and blues-folk legend Taj Mahal laughs a lot. It’s not just a survival strategy for the guitarist who burst into public consciousness in the sixties, but more the reflection of a love affair with life…
Trustees’ Lease of Norton Point Generates Revenue for County
In its management of Norton Point Beach, which is owned by Dukes County, the Trustees of Reservations produced a net surplus of $16,785 in the last fiscal year. The county will receive more than $3,000 of that money through an agreement with the conservation group. Two years ago, the county enlisted the help of the…
Suffrage Speech
Suffrage Speech Geraldine Brooks, Carol Gilligan, Marcia Randol and Rose Styron on Thursday will read passages from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Solitude of Self, followed by a discussion of the speech and its author’s contributions to American democracy. The free event is billed as A Celebration of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Solitude of Self. It takes…
Grand Jury Indicts Man for Cocaine Trafficking
An empty Cheetos bag and a baby’s diaper found during a routine traffic stop in West Tisbury earlier this year led to a grand jury indictment this week for an Island man suspected of trafficking cocaine. David A. Perez, 27, of West Tisbury, was indicted in Dukes County Superior Court last Tuesday. He is being…
Bananas Gallery Unpacks Jewelry for Red Cross
Yes We Have No Bananas, at 697 State Road, will host a jewelry trunk show opening reception on Thursday, July 31, from 4 to 7 p.m. Partial proceeds from the show will help to raise money and awareness for the American Red Cross.
Corrections
Corrections A story in Friday’s Gazette misreported the amount of money raised last year during the first annual Housing on the Tube telethon. The correct figure is $526,000. • An story in last Tuesday’s Gazette mistakenly reported the type of tick which carries tularemia. It is the dog tick. The Gazette regrets the errors.
Trio Solisti Tunes Up for Chappy Concert
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival continues its 2008 season on Thursday, July 31 at 8 p.m. with a performance by Trio Solisti. The program includes Copland’s Hoe-Down, Schoenfield’s Cafe Music, Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, and the trio’s highly acclaimed arrangement of Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
Receives Degree
Receives Degree Parthenia H. Kiersted of Edgartown received a degree in English in May at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. She minored in film studies.
Talking Ospreys
Talking Ospreys Rob Bierregaard began researching osprey on Martha’s Vineyard in 1969. Since then, he has been investigating the habits and migrations of these birds on Martha’s Vineyard and beyond. He will share his work, knowledge and passion for ospreys at a free lecture at the Oak Bluffs Library tonight, July 29, at 6:30 p.m.…
Gazette Names Lauren Martin as Newspaper Managing Editor
Vineyard Gazette editor Julia Wells announced this week that Lauren Martin has been named managing editor of the weekly newspaper. Ms. Martin, who is 41, came to the Gazette two and a half years ago from Canberra, Australia, where she was a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. Originally from Ohio, Ms. Martin received her…
Walking Permaculture
Walking Permaculture Permaculture designer Dick Pierce will lead a walk from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 30, from the Chappaquiddick Community Center. Enjoy the morning air and views and absorb information on sustainable living and design as he talks about the land’s natural features, noting the flow of air and water, the habitats and…
All the Way Down the Ocean Food Chain: Author Discusses the Value of Menhaden
Saving the sea from overfishing begins with paying attention to the forage fish. Tomorrow afternoon at 5:30, the author of an important environmental story will speak at the Chilmark Public Library as part of an ongoing series on fisheries and fishermen. Author Bruce Franklin will give a free talk on the value of menhaden in…
Audience Spins With Klezmer Express
After dusk on July 24, I ran up Look street in a downpour, searching for the party. I knew I had found the right place when I saw the ubiquitous Vineyard white-painted wooden parking sign — the one that usually reads “Reserved for: Norton” but read instead, “Reserved for: Rabbi.” I was coming to hear…
With an Eye Towards August, Crops Begin to Burst
It is the last Tuesday in July. The asparagus is long gone. Sugar snap peas have departed. Strawberry season has come and gone. But still there is much to look forward to. There are blueberries for sale and red, orange and even purple tomatoes ripening on Vineyard vines. There are cows to be milked, rains…
Page-Turner, Eye-Opener in One: Stephen Carter Maps Black Elite
PALACE COUNCIL By Stephen L. Carter. Knopf, New York, N.Y. July 2008. 528 pages. $26.95 hardcover.
There are some thrillers — The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon come to mind — where the plot is never going to make much sense, but for the reader to bog down on this point is…
Guest Preacher will Speak at Union Chapel
Ann-Therese Ortíz, associate pastor at Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Pa., will preach this Sunday, August 3 at 10 a.m. at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. The non-denominational chapel is at the south end of Circuit avenue.
Edgartown Jewels
Edgartown Jewels CB Stark Jewelers will be having a John Hardy Trunk show in Edgartown all day on Saturday, August 2, featuring one-of-a-kind designs along with a large selection of classic styles, at the shop at 27 North Water street. For details, call 508-627-1260.
The Cost of Eating
The Cost of Eating In most places, a walk down a supermarket aisle does not lend itself to experiences of awe and incredulity. But Martha’s Vineyard isn’t like most places. Consider Sunset heirloom tomatoes, which have been selling at Cronig’s Market for seven dollars and ninety-nine cents. The price of one large Sunset tomato is…
Berrying Time
Berrying Time
Tuesday Chronicle: Bethel’s Welcome
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of 1934: The Seaman’s Bethel, located on the waterfront at Vineyard Haven, is one of those institutions peculiar to the coast and to comparatively few towns and cities. Established and maintained by the Boston Seaman’s Friend Society, the Seaman’s Bethel is managed by Chaplain Austin Tower, who at once constitutes…
MVC Balks at Offer from Field Club; Commission Votes for a Hearing
A plan to allow the developers of the upscale Field Club in Katama to pay $1.8 million to the Edgartown affordable housing committee instead of designating three lots on their property for the housing, as required by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, hit a snag this past week. Although the plan has the backing of the…
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Lyn Hinds of Crafts Field Way in Edgartown emerged from her outdoor shower one recent afternoon to find herself face to face with a young skunk. Each frightened the other and each fled without incident. But Mrs. Hinds had a long enough glimpse of the skunk to see that its nose was encased in a…
Housing Telethon Smashes Record; Fundraiser Nets Over $1 Million
The Island Affordable Housing Fund raised more than $1 million this weekend with its Housing on the Tube telethon, breaking all Vineyard records for money banked from a single event. Volunteers has expected to greet each other with hugs and tears Sunday night as the three-day fundraiser drew to a close. They did not expect…
Letters to the Editor
BUY LOCAL Editors, Vineyard Gazette: I thank you for printing the interview with Cronig’s owner Steve Bernier. He, like Paul Revere, is sounding an important wakeup call. One solution to the food problem, similar to that which we’re trying to apply to the energy problem, is to localize production.
Cape League Game is a Huge Hit
In every sense, last Tuesday was a perfect day for baseball on the Vineyard. The sun shone brightly over the new baseball diamond at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, as a tangle of wispy clouds stubbornly refused to give way fully to the brilliant blue behind. The smell of hot dogs and hamburgers hung thick…
Kid Critic Takes On Films from Festival Guest A.O. Scott
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center. The organizers of the Summer…
