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
December 31, 2010
Eisie Show and Talk
Eisie Show and Talk
Nan Doty to Offer Qigong Classes at Chilmark Library
Certified qigong instructor Nan Doty will offer a four-week workshop based on the book The Healer Within: The Four Essential Self-Care Methods for Creating Optimal Health, by Roger Jahnke. Running on Wednesdays throughout January, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Library, the workshop promises the opportunity to begin the new year with vitality.
Oysters Thrive in Island Ponds Under Aggressive Management
There is snow in the air this holiday season and even better there are plenty of oysters in the ponds. This has been a good year for winter’s favorite bivalve. Tisbury Great Pond wild oysters are being sold at the market as a new report suggests a promising future for oysters in Edgartown Great Pond.
Quilt Winner
Quilt Winner
The raffle held to benefit the African Artists Community Development Project was drawn on Christmas Day out of the Tuareg basket. Susan Spence was the winner of a beautiful quilt that was a collaboration between craftswomen in Lusaka, Zambia, who sewed the panels, and women on Martha’s Vineyard, who pieced the…
Happy New Year!
We wish a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year to Gazette readers near and far. Coverage of a Christmas Day home fire appears on Page Two. The post-holiday snowstorm is reported on Page Nine. Our offices will close at noon today.
Correction
Correction
MV Glee creator Sandy Stone’s husband Mike Benjamin was misidentified in a story about the new IMP space published last week. The Gazette regrets the error.
The Year 2010 Told a Story of Two Vineyards
In her summation of the Martha’s Vineyard economy, presented to an audience of Island businesswomen in November, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce executive director Nancy Gardella labeled herself an optimist. For certain sectors, she said, things were going well. Very well.
Menemsha Fish Market Is for Sale on Craigslist
After six years on the dock, owners Stanley and Lanette Larsen are selling the Menemsha Fish Market. The couple posted the sale notice on Craigslist Dec. 27 with Mr. Larsen as the contact person, although the owners did not advertise an asking price.
“Profitable fish market for sale in the beautiful fishing village…
Now and Zen Win
Now and Zen Win
Martha’s Vineyard, Now and Zen by Susan Klein and Alan Brigish is the winner in the Wild Card category of the New England Book Festival.
The following is from newenglandbookfestival.com:
Submitted works are judged by a panel of industry experts using the following criteria: general…
Nearby Ocean Opens for Energy Bids
Opening a massive new front for offshore energy development around the Island this week, state and federal officials kicked off a federal leasing process that will see wind developers bid on blocks of the Atlantic south of the Vineyard and Nantucket.
Fire Razes West Tisbury Home on Christmas, Cause Unknown
A raging house fire marked a terrible end to an otherwise peaceful Christmas day for one family in West Tisbury.
One of Sunniest Summers, Yet Record Rain Year
Wet, windy, warm and sunny are terms to describe weather, and there was plenty of it on the Vineyard in 2010. There was record rainfall. The National Weather Service cooperative station recorded 56.18 inches of precipitation for the year, 10 inches above average.
Yet for all the rain clouds, the Vineyard had one…
Holiday Storm: Light Snow, Heavy Delays
A huge snowstorm that brought blizzard conditions and record snowfall to much of the Northeast a day after Christmas was comparatively kind here, where only a light snow fell. Still, with winds gusting to nearly 70 miles per hour on the Vineyard and extreme high tides, the severe storm left thousands of down-Island homes without…
Who Was That Mustached Man?
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride: It’s the story of my life. But the hairiest part of the story is that I am the only bridesmaid I know with a mustache.
That is why I was not surprised to find out that I recently finished second in the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American…
The Unknown Is the New Normal
We’ve been accused of being lazy, complacent, having everything handed to us on a silver platter, growing up in the boom years without a care in the world. Trust me, I know some of those people.
Nature’s Everyday Strength
Nature’s Everyday Strength
High tides follow low, the full moon follows the new, the spring ever follows the bitter cold. Nature freely offers us her perspective; the nature writer Hal Borland said, “If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” So as we pause to make sense of this…
SSA Parking Options To Increase, As Will School Boatline Fees
By PETER BRANNEN
Frequent travelers off-Island will have more offsite parking options this off-season as the Steamship Authority voted on Tuesday to approve a $225 parking permit option that would run from January to May.
ITW Annual Meeting
ITW Annual Meeting
Island Theatre Workshop Inc. announces that their annual meeting will be held on Sunday, Jan. 9, at their headquarters at 12 Music street in West Tisbury. There will be a potluck luncheon at 2 p.m. followed by the meeting at 3 p.m. Both are open to all.
Marshall Segall Art Show Opens: West Tisbury Library
The West Tisbury Public Library presents the exhibition Vineyard Signs and Then Some by Marshall Segall, throughout January, with an opportunity to meet the artist on Friday, Jan. 7, at 4 p.m.
Visiting artist Marshall Segall is a newcomer to the world of painting. A West Tisburian for only a decade, he has…
Aquinnah Sanctions Scallopers Without Permits, Debates Costs
Two commercial bay scallopers in Aquinnah are facing punishment for fishing without a permit in November. Selectmen voted at their Dec. 14 meeting to fine George Baird $200 for scalloping two days on Menemsha Pond without a license, but referred a complaint against Wilde Whitcomb to town counsel.
Please Adopt Us
Please Adopt Us
Now that the holidays are “almost” over and we can all sit back and relax a bit, won’t you please give some serious thought to taking one or two of our beautiful animals into your home? I guess Santa was so busy giving toys to all the good little children…
Aquinnah
JUNE D. MANNING
508-645-2574
(lthslnks@gis.net)
Sunday and Monday nights the wind velocity was more than we would normally experience even in a typical northeaster. It has been exceptionally cold, in the single digits, all week but we can expect the temperature to be in the high 40s over the…
Gazette Chronicle: Cold and Comfort
Cold and Comfort
From Gazette editions at the turn of the year 1935:
Richard L. Pease of Oak Bluffs opened the ice harvest season at Crystal Lake, harvesting ice eight inches or better in thickness and of a fine quality. Granted a freezing temperature, or anything approaching it for a few…
Oak Bluffs
HOLLY NADLER
508-274-2329
(hollynadler@gmail.com)
Christmas Eve, Carol Derry’s house, late. Had the chance to meet the hilarious and charming Laurie Reilly, live-in manager at the Nashua House. I told her I’d spent February of 2003 at the Nashua House with my dog, Chopper, a cocker spaniel.
Laurie’s…
Temperatures
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
Dec. 24 39 30 .00
Dec. 25 37 26 .00
Dec. 26 37 27 Trace
Dec. 27 41 32 1.26
Dec. 28 35 20 .00
Dec. 29 34 24 .00
Dec. 30 39 20 .00
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Edgartown
Kathie Case
508-627-5349
(kathleencase@comcast.net)
Well, 2010 is going out like a lion and it sounds like 2011 is coming in like a lamb. I hope all who were traveling during the storm made their destinations on time and I hope they have safe travels back.
Jupiter and Uranus
The week ahead offers a rare opportunity for those who have never seen the distant planet Uranus. Uranus is only barely visible to the unaided eye, but can be seen with binoculars.
Alumni Pucksters Still Ripple the Mesh
Winter break always has been a time for reconnecting with old friends, convalescing from the scars of another year and, for a select few, settling old scores on the ice at the annual alumni hockey game. While some participants may have added pounds and wrinkles since their glory days, the years had done little to…
The Biggest Sword in the World. Really.
He who makes really, really, really big swords will be appearing at the West Tisbury library at 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 31. Actually, these are not just big swords. These are the biggest swords the world has ever seen.
West Tisbury native Michael Craughwell built a sword that is 8 feet, five…
Hot Books on Hold (and Ones You Don’t Hold)
If you look up libraries on Wikipedia, you’ll learn that a golden age arose from 1600 to 1700 when cities all over the world had to erect a big, baroque building for books. If there’s ever been a new claim for a golden age, it’s right here, right now, involving our Island libraries, all of…
Review Your Rumi
Review Your Rumi
The poet, Sufi mystic, theologian and jurist known as Rumi will be the subject of the three-week study group at the Vineyard Haven Public Library starting Tuesday.
Jim Norton, aided by special guest Demaris Wehr, will lead the series Conversations about Jalal al-Din Rumi, Persian Poet.
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First, Salute the Sun
First, Salute the Sun
All are welcome at a free New Year’s Day Yoga Class to benefit the Vineyard House, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at the the Yoga Collective at Island Cohousing, 11 Rock Pond Road in West Tisbury.
Join Jane Norton and Mollie Doyle to start the year right…
Talkin’ Otters
Talkin’ Otters
Wildlife biologists Luanne Johnson and Elizabeth Baldwin are hoping Island hikers will be on the lookout for otter trails and slides in the woods this winter. The two are studying the Island’s river otter population with a goal of mapping otter habitat and understanding the diet of these aquatic mammals —…
Bashes to Bruches, Bring in New Year
Bashes to Bruches,
Bring in New Year
It’s time to get out your party wear, buy the goofy looking 2011 glasses and ring in the New Year Vineyard style. But waking up with glitter in your hair from the night before isn’t the only way to send 2010 out with a…
Christian Arrives
Christian Arrives
Kara Best and Stephen Ciancio of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Christian Patrick Ciancio, born on Dec. 20, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Christian weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.
Bird News
Rain or shine, the Vineyard’s Christmas Bird Count will take place on Jan. 2, 2011. We hope you will participate either in the field or by counting the birds at your feeders. Contact Rob Culbert if you are interested in joining a field team at 508-693-4908 or call in your feeder sightings between 2 to…
The Hopeful Planning Stage
Last Sunday’s snowstorm caught me off-guard. It is beyond me why I ever watch the weather man.
Have a Ball
More often than not, this column deals with the wonderment of wildlife and the peculiarity of plants. Today it takes on the idiosyncrasies of another of earth’s inhabitants — the habits of Homo sapiens.
