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
August 12, 2008
Library Campaign News
Library Campaign News On Thursday, August 14, Friends of the Edgartown Library will host an open house at the library to provide a summer update to the public about the library’s current capital campaign. A brief talk with a follow-up question and answer period will be held at 7 p.m. The Friends of the Edgartown…
Get Inside the Circuit with Cottage Tour
Cottage Park is a quiet 250-foot-long sidewalk lying just past the Circuit avenue entrance to the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association. Tomorrow — Wednesday, August 13 — the public will have the chance to visit inside 10 Cottage Park homes during the 13th Annual Cottage Tour — the first time every cottage in a single…
Moonlight Paddle
Moonlight Paddle Felix Neck offers a paddle by moonlight on Friday and Saturday evenings, August 15 and 16, from 7 to 9 p.m. You can see Sengekontacket pond in a new light, moon light, as you kayak with a guide on the pond as the moon rises. The program is open to ages 11 and…
Art Party on Wednesday
Art Party on Wednesday Carrie Mae Smith will showcase her exhibit Historic Houses on the Vineyard, plein air paintings of familiar landmarks and Vineyard history, for the month of August at West Tisbury Library. All are welcome to meet the artist at a free reception Wednesday, August 13, at 4 p.m. Refreshments served. For details,…
Sneak Peek Walking Tour of Edgartown
The second annual Cooke and South Water streets house tour will be tomorrow, Wednesday. August 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. The tour will include five historic homes in Edgartown, all within walking distance of each other, followed by tea and refreshments. At each home, guests will be greeted by a docent who will share…
Bicycle, Motorcycle Collisions Result in Airlifts for Injuries
Edgartown police responded to two major accidents this past week: one involving a pair of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and another involving a pair of bicycles. In both cases, one person involved in the accident was seriously injured and airlifted by helicopter to Boston-based hospitals.
Film Calls to Young People: Get Out and Vote This Year
The fast-paced, nonpartisan film 18 in ’08 screens free at 8 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven on Wednesday, August 13. Made by a 19-year-old filmmaker, the movie is aimed at 17 to 24-year-olds who may be voting in their first Presidential election this year. Following the screening the director and politicians…
Edgartown Realtor Elected to Cape, Islands Board
Edgartown Realtor Elected To Cape, Islands Board Bill LeRoyer, co-owner and principal broker of Harborside Realty Inc. of Edgartown, has been elected to the board of directors of the Cape Cod and Islands Association of Realtors. The professional association is made up of member real estate offices located on Cape Cod, the Vineyard and Nantucket…
Two-Day Field Study Aims To Explore Native Plants
On Tuesday, August 12, and Saturday, August 16, the Polly Hill Arboretum will offer two tours highlighting native trees and plants. On August 12 from 10 to 11 a.m. join Karin Stanley, arboretum staff member and amateur historian, for a tour of native trees and shrubs on the grounds. Knowing the cultural history of these…
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Indian Classical Flute is Featured at Che’s Lounge
Steve Gorn’s Luminous Ragas, a concert of Indian classical music on the bansuri bamboo flute, will take place on Thursday, August 14, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Che’s Lounge on Main street in Vineyard Haven. Tickets are $15. Mr. Gorn will guide the audience through the beauty and intricacies of this music with words.
Aquinnah Voters Reject Energy Bylaw Calling for Additional Public Hearing
At an occasionally raucous Aquinnah special town meeting last Thursday, voters made at least two things clear: that there is support for town action on wind energy, and that they view a proposed energy bylaw as a rush job prepared without nearly enough community involvement. The bylaw was postponed indefinitely at a meeting attended by…
Cracked Teacups, Shattered Goodwill
Cracked Teacups, Shattered Goodwill Before reopening yesterday, the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club Second Hand Store had a lengthy time-out — which is what boys and girls get when they have behaved badly. When parents enforce a time-out, it is to give a child time to get control of himself, and to let the…
Glorious Summer Weather Shines on Festival
It was raining yesterday morning — and thankfully the weather gods switched the downpour with Sunday’s splendor and the Martha’s Vineyard Festival which saw music jamming in Ocean Park from three in the afternoon until just past 11 p.m. “It doesn’t rain on my shows,” declared Festival Network vice president Rick White just before the…
Down a Country Lane
Down a Country Lane Happily, around the Island, there are still many dirt roads. These unpaved roads usually meander and tend to pass through pine and scrub oak woods. Sometimes, of course — particularly if they are not well traveled — poison ivy grows on the middle crown and explorers on foot must watch out…
Oak Bluffs Contingent Assists in Sea Rescue of Leatherback
A 1,500 pound, eight-foot long male leatherback turtle that had become entangled in fishing gear was rescued in Nantucket Sound on Friday by a group that included the Oak Bluffs harbor master and shellfish constable. “I couldn’t believe the size of that thing. That is a first for me,” said harbor master Todd Alexander.
Letters to the Editor
BERLIN TO BEIJING Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Thousands Run for the Lobster
With the sounding of the horn, some 1,600 runners in the 31st Chilmark Road Race took off. The herd shot toward the press truck like raptors in a Steven Spielberg film and the red pickup sped up to avoid being overtaken. John Ciccarelli was at the front, his face just feet from the photographers’ lenses.…
Separate Acts of Vandalism Stir Common Outrage
REWARD OFFERED Editors, Vineyard Gazette: This is an open letter to the greater community on Martha’s Vineyard. Someone is repeatedly destroying a split rail fence with a chain saw and we need your help. We are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of this person.
Racy 12-Metres Complete Weekend Regatta
Sunday’s stiff southwest wind more than made up for Saturday’s light air to make the 14th annual Edgartown Yacht Club 12-metre regatta a weekend success. Ten of the fastest sailboats in the region, contenders in past America’s Cup racing, came together on Nantucket Sound to share a moment at the start and race to the…
Playing Outfield at Peaked Hill Stadium
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
A Friendship Built on Stilts, and Forged in Cigarettes, Skinny-Dips and Secrets
Red wine and cigarettes, dirty jokes and skinny dipping, late night sorties onto the streets of Oak Bluffs in outrageous costume — the manifestations of Abby Bender and Brent Alberghini’s 14-year relationship tend toward the risky and risque. But 12 years ago their offbeat ideas of friendship and community also nurtured something of an Island…
Concert Business Report is Mixed
The day was expected to draw a crowd in the thousands — and it did — but inside Ocean Park on Sunday, large swaths of grass were visible and vending booths were quiet at the second annual Martha’s Vineyard Festival. Outside the park, however, sidewalks and house porches were jammed.
Field Club Affordable Housing Deal Will Get Fresh Hearing
Despite continued pressure from some Edgartown officials, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday stood firmly behind its previous decision to hold a public hearing on a request from the developers of the Field Club in Katama to pay $1.8 million to the town instead of designating three lots on their property for affordable housing. After…
How Republicans Can Bring Back Black Voters
Political commentator, George Mason University professor and author Michael Fauntroy will discuss his book, Republicans and the Black Vote, a historical look at the GOP and black voters, on Thursday, August 14, at 5 p.m. as part of the Chilmark Free Public Library adult evening series. The free talk is open to the public, hosted…
Anonymous Donor Buys Painting for Island Museum
A painting of a well-known Menemsha-based trawler by Heather Neill has been given to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum by an anonymous donor. The eight by four-foot painting, titled Strider’s Surrender, evokes the decline the local fishing industry. The Quitsa Strider II is owned by respected Island fishermen Jonathan Mayhew. In a move symbolic of the…
Susan Klein, Bobby Norfolk Trade Stories at Arts Center
Storyteller Susan Klein comes to Featherstone Thursday, August 14, at 7:30 p.m. to share tales from her travels, her past and her take on the world around her. Renowned for her memoir workshops. Ms. Klein’s storytelling material is at once historical and hysterical, engaging and amusing. Her tales encompass experiences from mundane adventures growing up…
The Last Grape: Chicama Vineyards Closes its Cellar
The big wooden doors of the Chicama Vineyards shop closed for the last time Sunday evening at two minutes past five. The shelves of the shop, once stocked with wines made from the grapes grown outside and vinegars infused with that wine, were empty, or nearly so. Hundreds of people stopped in over the weekend…
Kids’ Guide to Films In Chilmark Series; Lyme for the Adults
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…
Tracking the Tacking of Holmes Hole Sailors
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its summer series of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven Harbor on Sunday, August 3, with the Chappy Rendezvous Race. It was a cloudy morning with a west wind of five to 10 knots and a forecasted threat of rain. Twelve boats posted for the start at red nun…
Clue: The Mystery Authors in the West Tisbury Library
Authors Cynthia Riggs and Tom Dresser will celebrate their mysteries on Tuesday, August 12, at 5 p.m. at the West Tisbury library. Ms. Riggs, a 13th-generation Islander, lives in West Tisbury in her family homestead, now a bed-and-breakfast for poets and writers. Double Murder on Martha’s Vineyard combines her first two books, Deadly Nightshade and…
Bring the Grandparents
Bring the Grandparents The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation will sponsor its fourth annual grandparents and grandchildren day on Thursday at the Native Earth Teaching Farm on North Road in Chilmark. The event takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Enjoy a fun-filled morning working on the farm. Meet some baby animals and learn about organic farming.…
It’s Not Just Gardening, It’s Conservation: Lecture
On Wednesday, August 13, at 7:30 p.m. the Polly Hill Arboretum welcomes Ellie Altman as guest speaker for the 11th annual David H. Smith Memorial Lecture. Her lecture, Gardening Earth’s Green Mantle, focuses on land stewardship practices that foster a healthier and more beautiful world for all living things. She expands the definition of gardening…
