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 4, 2009
Beneath a Tent at Ocean Park, Dreams Added Up to $500,000
Somewhere over the rainbow, or perhaps somewhere on a small Island nestled into the Atlantic Ocean a few short miles from the Massachusetts coast, dreams really do come true.
Vineyard Landscapes Are Subject of Talk at Arboretum
Summer resident and award-winning landscape architect Michael VanValkenburgh will give an illustrated presentation and reflection of Vineyard landscapes he has designed over the past 25 years on Wednesday, August 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury.
Island Voices
Island Voices
Island Voices at Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven offers a new poetry performance series continues on Wednesday, August 5 at 7:30 p.m. Ben Williams will perform and host the event with Island poets Janette Vanderhoop and Andrew Larsen performing their work. An open reading follows the featured poets. All Island poets…
Nitrogen Poses Real Risk To Health of Island Ponds
On the evening of Wednesday, July 29, the Vineyard Conservation Society presented a public information forum titled Ponds in Peril. Several speakers analyzed problems in various Island ponds leading to declining water quality and pond health.
Throughout the evening, emphasis was focused on nitrogen excess as a primary cause of eutrophication and the…
Readers Respond to Bikram Yoga Story
Story Misses the Mark
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Regarding the recent Gazette article title: “Bikram Yoga Puts Sweat Over Spirituality in a Heated Workout:”
Wikipedia defines Spirituality as: “Matters of the Spirit.” The definition of Spirit is cited as: “Spirit, like soul, forms a natural part of a being: such people…
Letters to the Editor
CORMORANTS AND FAIR GAME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Perhaps Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop’s choice of words and his efforts to diminish the population of cormorants sound a bit callous to many, but he has pointed out a very real problem the Vineyard and many other seaside communities are facing. (You mention that 24…
Continuing the Conversation on Race
Continuing the Conversation on Race
Lecture: An Insider’s Guide to Hospice
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is sponsoring a forum — An Insiders’ Guide to Hospice: What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Up — on Tuesday, August 4, at 5 p.m. Featured will be Dr. Donald Schumacher, chief executive of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Washington, D.C.
The forum is free and open…
Poetry Collection Evokes Potent Memories of Vineyard Summers
The poems in Portrait of a Reading Woman convey the tapestry of a life richly lived and richly told. Originally a Bostonian, Helen Gorenstein has spent summers on Martha’s Vineyard for over 40 years. Drawing on memories from her childhood in the 1930s, her marriage, and her “long summers” on the Island, she retraces her…
America’s Favorite Monkey Visiting Island Libraries
The popular storybook character Curious George, created by H.A. Rey, will be visiting Island libraries, sponsored by Martha’s Vineyard Library Association’s children’s librarians. Curious George’s schedule is:
Alan Dershowitz Talks Obama and Israel
Noted Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz will discuss the Obama administration’s relationship with Israel in a talk titled Obama and Israel: Friends Or Foes? at the Chilmark Public Library on Thursday, August 6 at 5 p.m. Free copies of his latest book The Case For Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza, donated by Mr.…
Jupiter String Quartet Plays Chappaquiddick
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival continues on Thursday, August 6, with a performance by the Jupiter String Quartet. The quartet will perform Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 7, Dvorak’s Quartet in F Major “American,” and Beethoven’s Quartet in E Minor, the “Razumovsky.” The concert begins at 8 p.m. at the Chappaquiddick Community Center. A reception follows the…
Filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan: You Have to Start Somewhere
Hollywood filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan has an interesting philosophy on careers, one that defies conventional logic. While most people say you should always love your job, he believes at some point you should truly hate your job.
“I think at some point you should take a job you truly despise . . . that…
African American Film Festival Begins
We’ve waited 72 years to meet a princess like Tiana. In the history of Disney’s animated fairy tales, we all know Snow White, Princess Aurora and Cinderella. Belle and Ariel came later, their fair-skinned complexions falling in line with their princess predecessors. In 1992, Disney integrated their princess line-up with the Middle Eastern Jasmine, followed…
Margaret Regan Named Interim YMCA Director
Margaret (Peg) Regan, retired principal of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and teacher in Massachusetts for 30 years, has been named the interim executive director of the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard.
Her term, which began August 1, will continue indefinitely while the search for a new executive director is completed, the YMCA announced…
Art Lovers Put Their Ten Cents In at Show
Splashed with sun and circled by artists and admirers, 418 pieces of artwork hung from a wire fence roped around the perimeter of the Tabernacle yesterday, shaping the 52nd annual All-Island Art Show and Sale itself into the scene of a fine painting.
Federal Funds Freed, Clearing Way for Boatline Terminal Work
The bureaucratic red tape has been unsnarled and last week the Steamship Authority learned that it would receive $5 million in stimulus money from the Federal Highway Administration, which will allow three terminal construction projects in Hyannis, Oak Bluffs and Woods Hole to proceed on schedule.
At a special meeting Friday in Hyannis…
Possible Shark Sighting Stirs South Beach Crowd
Several people reporting seeing a shark off South Beach in Edgartown on Saturday, prompting swimmers to evacuate the water and giving at least one person a scary close encounter.
Eva Bradford, 22, of Westport, Me., was swimming about 30 feet from shore at about 7 p.m. when she heard her two cousins screaming.…
Vineyard’s Own Tony Grillo Qualifies for Amateur Open
Island golfer Tony Grillo shot a one-under par on Thursday at a qualifying event at Maplegate Country Club in Bellingham to take third place in the field and earn a spot in the U.S. Amateur Open, the leading annual golf tournament for amateur golfers that has been won by golfing legends like Tiger Woods, Phil…
New Hampshire Man Drowns At Quansoo Cut on Saturday
A New Hampshire man drowned on Saturday in strong surf at Quansoo Beach in Chilmark, despite a dramatic rescue attempt by police, fire and ambulance workers at the remote location near the man-made cut at the barrier beach that separates Tisbury Great Pond from the ocean. Lawrence Shedd, 49, of Danbury, N.H., was pronounced…
After Beer, Skip Gates Offers Substance
Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Solow had the overflow crowd roaring with laughter from the very start of his introduction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival on Sunday.
“It’s not often,” he deadpanned, “that you get the chance to introduce a deserving but obscure scholar . . . .”
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Fish Stocks Can Rebound, Report Says
Fish can come back.
A research paper published in last Friday’s journal Science concludes that while fish stocks remain threatened by overfishing, collaboration among scientists and fisheries managers can reverse the trend.
Boris Worm, a marine ecologist with Dalhousie University in Halifax and other scientists published a report in 2006 citing…
State Bill to Take Over Sheriffs Ready for Governor’s Signature
The Dukes County sheriff’s department will come under control of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts starting in January 2010, according to state legislation awaiting the signature of Gov. Deval Patrick.
Backers of the legislation say the bill will improve a budgetary process which has left the state’s seven remaining sheriffs’ departments scrambling mid-year for…
Welcome Caroline
Welcome Caroline
Aimee Blood and Paul Cotton of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Caroline Nicole Cotton, born on July 28, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Caroline weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces at birth.
