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 14, 2009
Breaking News: Wednesday, July 15, 6:35 pm – Obama Will Vacation on Vineyard
President Barack Obama and the First Family will vacation on the Vineyard next month, the Gazette has learned.
Informed sources say Martha’s Vineyard airport has been told to prepare for the arrival of Air Force One in August and for a Presidential vacation during the final week of August, as reported in the July 3…
Book Bargains in the Camp Ground
Readers take heed: again this year, bargain hunters will be rewarded with a wide selection of gently used books at the Library Friends of Oak Bluffs’ annual summer book sale, some priced as low as three for a dollar. There will be pocket-sized paperbacks, larger softcover books, hardcovers and large print. There will be novels,…
Reverend Brings Comedy to the Pulpit
There is plenty of room and opportunity for humor for those in pursuit of a spiritual life. Rev. Susan Sparks, a minister from New York city, spoke at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Sunday morning. Her sermon Laughing Your Way to Grace drew applause after she repeatedly got the congregation to laugh. Reverend Sparks,…
Dance Legends Perform Paradigm at the Yard
Longtime friends of the Yard, Gus Solomons Jr and Carmen de Lavallade, return with Paradigm, their company of fellow luminaries, for a weekend of performances in the Yard’s intimate Patricia N. Nanon Theater. Island audiences may remember Carmen de Lavallade and Gus Solomons from last summer’s tribute to Patricia Nanon at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing…
Animal Crackers: A Kid Critic Review
You can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. Here to review what’s on the big screen tomorrow is Island…
Expert Gives Lecture on Parenting
Parenting expert Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair will explain How Can You Be a Go-To Parent (or Grandparent)? in a talk on Thursday, July 16, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, in what promises to be a practical, intelligent, funny, insightful and timely Summer Institute event.
Island Tapestrist Has New Show in Bethesda
Island artist Julia Mitchell’s work is on exhibit in Tapestries: Nature and Artifact, at Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda, Md.
A designer and weaver of 40 years’ experience, her works are in private and corporate collections worldwide.
The art of tapestry is enjoying a resurgence in this country, thanks in part…
Dilly Walsh Hosting ALS Fundraiser
Compassionate Care ALS represents a new, or perhaps ancient, approach to medicine. Focusing on health care rather than disease treatment, the Cape-based nonprofit seeks to improve the quality of life of people who have ALS. This degenerative and irreversible nerve decay was made famous by Lou Gehrig and then Stephen Hawking. Doctors can do little to…
Letters to the Editor
DEEP TROUBLE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
If Laurie David and C. Dean Metropolous think that they are stewards of the environment, we are in deep, deep trouble. First we have Ms. David, supposed environmentalist, and her landscaper saying they knew nothing of the strip-mining project on her property, and then we have…
Tuesday Chronicle: Their First Sea Voyage
From Gazette editions of July, 1949:
John (Jack) H. Ware Jr.: 1919-2009
John (Jack) H. Ware Jr.: 1919-2009
It is often said there is no more noble calling than public service. Certainly that is true in this Island community where the quality of life rests so heavily on the selfless work of so many volunteers and public servants. Those who devote time to the service…
Community-Owned Wind Farms
Community-Owned Wind Farms
So the Vineyard has been named as a hot spot again — this time for renewable energy in the form of wind generation. The draft plan under the state Oceans Act has designated two areas west of the Vineyard as places allowed for building commercial wind farms: one on the…
Rising Tide
Rising Tide
Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center is having their third annual cocktail party/fundraiser tomorrow night, Wednesday, July 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Styron family home on 53 High Hedge Lane in Vineyard Haven. Sponsored by LeGrenier Restaurant, Jim’s Package Store, Donaroma’s Nursery & Landscape, Red Pony Farm & Consignment/Tack…
Don’t Rain on My Hay
Simon Athearn of Morning Glory was making hay while the sun shone yesterday, though he wasn’t yet ready to bet the farm — just a few acres in fact, out in Katama.
Edgartown Regatta Fills Harbor; Round the Island Race Is Saturday
Spirited sailors and their sleek sailboats arrive this week for the start of the 86th annual Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta. The regatta appears to be recession-proof. Sailors love to sail, no matter what appears to be going on ashore. Competition begins on Thursday and runs through Saturday. As many as 250 youths and as many…
Bog Jam: Island-Bound Pilot Saves the Day
A single-engine Cessna headed towards the Vineyard from New Hampshire crash-landed in a cranberry bog near Buzzards Bay on Sunday after the plane experienced engine problems and the pilot attempted an emergency landing. Although the plane was seriously damaged, all four people on board escaped without serious injuries.
Police Beat: 1929 Ford Woodie Takes a Hit
Two people were seriously injured in a two-car accident on Saturday that involved an antique Ford station wagon and a 1997 Toyota Camry near the intersection of Oyster Watcha Road and the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road.
Danielle Nickowal, 19, of Tisbury, was driving eastbound on Edgartown-West Tisbury Road just after 8 a.m. when she…
Cuban Piano Legacy Hits Whaling Church: Valdez
When your grandfather is Grammy-winning Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdez and your father famed Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Chucho Valdez, naturally you decide to be a baseball player.
So it was with Chuchito Valdez, the now-renowned pianist who will be playing on Thursday, July 16, at 7 and 9 p.m.…
Ice House Pond Reopens After Testing
One of the land bank’s Island jewels, Ice House Pond near Lambert’s Cove, was briefly closed over the weekend, due to suspected contamination with human waste.
The pond was closed on Friday afternoon, but reopened again on Sunday after testing revealed no bacterial contamination of the water.
Matthew Dix, the property…
Arts Center Draws Zen, Poetry, Bargains Together
Over 100 vendors will offer their wares on Tuesday, July 14, when the fourth Featherstone Flea and Fine Arts Market will cover the grounds of Featherstone Center for the Arts near the blinker in Oak Bluffs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission and parking is free. The flea market continues on Tuesdays through Sept.…
One Man’s Plan to Transform Africa, One Student at a Time
“How do you transform a continent?” asked Fred Swaniker, the founder and chief executive officer of the African Leadership Academy, in his presentation last Saturday afternoon at the Edgartown home of Joe and Sylvia Frelinghuysen. The audience of 30 joined Mr. Swaniker in light laughter; he knows his goals for educating African youth and preparing…
Gallery of Strong Women Reigns Over the Art Scene in Edgartown
Christina Cook was thinking the other day about her beginnings in the Martha’s Vineyard art scene.
Library Refit Hits Big Price Tag Snag
A plan to convert the old Oak Bluffs library at the corner of Pennacook and Circuit avenues into a mixed-used commercial building with a pharmacy on the ground floor and affordable housing on the second floor has hit a snag, as bids for the project were substantially higher than expected.
Main Street, USA: Tisbury Street Fair Draws Colorful Crowd, Despite Delay
They mingled on car-free Main street. They munched on fried dough and cotton candy. They rummaged through clothing racks looking for bargains. They did all the lively things the sardine-like crowd traditionally does at the annual Tisbury Street Fair, even if they did it a day late. A forecast of rain led selectmen to postpone…
Historian Looks at Americans in Paris
When people think of American history of the mid-1800s, they usually think of the great westward expansion, the opening up of new territory, of covered wagons and the forging of the American frontier myth.
But, as historian David McCullough notes in the first chapter of his latest book: “Not all the pioneers went…
Study: High Tick Disease Rates
An important study of tick-bourne illnesses conducted last fall by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed high rates of Lyme disease, rocky mountain spotted fever group and anaplasmosis in members of the Wampanoag tribe and other Vineyarders.
