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 26, 2011
Block Grant Monies Face New Obstacle
A proposed change in the guidelines for the state Community Development Block Grant program could spell a doubly whammy for the Vineyard, which has already lost out on $2 million in block grant money this year due to a clerical error.
The guideline change, which is still proposed and has not been adopted,…
He Would Have Been an Actor, Now Mr. Feinberg Acts in Tragedies
Kenneth Feinberg is a busy man. You wouldn’t know it, though, as he sits on a porch that cranes far above Lambert’s Cove, providing a glimpse to the Vineyard Sound. It’s a calming view for a man plagued by the problems of nations and people alike.
“It certainly is very important that I…
State, Shellfish Group Hatch Agreement
The old Massachusetts State Lobster Hatchery found new life last Friday, with the formal announcement that the Oak Bluffs facility will be used for raising shellfish for the Vineyard once again.
State and local dignitaries came together to officiate an agreement to share the facility, which had not operated for many years. There…
Beach Bacteria Still a Mystery; State Will Visit Aquinnah Lab
State health officials will today conduct an inspection of the Aquinnah laboratory whose fluctuating test results have led to a series of recent beach closures on Martha’s Vineyard.
Late yesterday a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Health, Jennifer Manley, confirmed the audit of the Wampanoag tribe lab, but said it was…
Deval Patrick Faces Island Deluge
On Saturday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick strolled through the newly-minted, solar-paneled Eliakim’s Way affordable housing community in West Tisbury — which by midday had become a virtual power plant in the boiling summer heat — on the Island leg of his summer conversation tour through the commonwealth.
Agricultural Society, Polly Hill Join Forces to Buy Vineyard Museum Land
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is close to selling the West Tisbury land once envisioned as its future home to the neighbors, the Polly Hill Arboretum and the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society. The sale is likely to be completed by the end of the week, arboretum executive director Tim Boland said. Surveying work was underway and…
Brother and Sister Share Filmic Secrets
Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evenings at the Chilmark Community Center. The films begin at 6 p.m. but at 5 p.m. the circus — complete with jugglers, face painters, stilt walkers, food and music — gets underway.
Young in Years, Old in Talent
Young in Years, Old in Talent
Check out sibling rivalry at its most harmonic when Liz and Yvonne Kane take the stage on Wednesday, July 27 at 7 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
The Kane sisters both play the fiddle and they play it extraordinarily well. They…
Vineyard House Tests the Waters
It’s arguably the loveliest event in the summer season. For 14 years now, Vineyard House, the only substance abuse safe haven on the Island, holds a fundraiser consisting of “designer” waters to sip and sumptuous food to eat provided by Tea Lane Caterers. The venue is always breathtaking, but this one may be the topper…
Tall Ship Eagle to Sail By North Shore on Wednesday
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
The tall ship Eagle, the flagship of the United States and the United States Coast Guard, will be sailing down Vineyard Sound on Wednesday afternoon, if weather cooperates. The 295-foot barque is en route from Boston to New Bedford. The ship has not been seen in these waters for…
African American Festival
African American Festival
The seventh annual African American Cultural Festival takes place on July 28 and 29 at Hartford Park in Oak Bluffs, with daily activities from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
On Thursday at 6 p.m., broadcast news journalist Carol Simpson reads from her new book. From 9:30 to midnight…
Letters to the Editor
WATER’S FINE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
So I hear the waters that I have gone swimming in every summer since I was an infant (Truman was president) are deemed “maybe polluted.” Ho hum. Not the first in a long line of indignities visited upon what I revere as the Galilee of bathing…
Vineyard Bookshelf
Bright Waters, Shining Tides: Reflections on a Lifetime of Fishing, paintings and essays by Kib Bramhall, Vineyard Stories, Edgartown, 2011. 96 pages. Hardcover, $29.95.
I know of three painters who are also enviably good writers, all of them Vineyard men by birth or choice.
Look Ma, No Corners: Pastoral Gay Head Knows No Boundaries
I used to live off Moshup Trail in Aquinnah, formerly Gay Head. We had a little ocean view — with the emphasis on little. Now we rent on Lighthouse Road, where we have a wide, blue view across the Sound. But the Sound is not the ocean, and Lighthouse Road is not Moshup Trail. But…
Tuesday Chronicle: Weather or Not
From Gazette summer editions:
It’s one of those odd things that the northeast wind which, most of the year, produces three days — at least — of rain and wind, usually raw and bleak, can produce in late summer and early fall the beautiful phenomenon known as a dry northeaster. A northwest day…
Helping Habitat
Helping Habitat
Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard is in urgent need of volunteers to help build its house in West Tisbury this weekend.
Work will be needed, Friday, July 29, and Saturday, July 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The directions are as follows: Take Old County…
Improv Show for Kids
Improv Show for Kids
Nightmares were never so much fun. During the past two weeks the campers at Imp have been learning the ways of improv — the fast action, quick reflexes of theatrical art Yoda would be proud of. But who’s to say, once the mind is unleashed to improvise at will,…
Carolyn Daniele Art Show
Carolyn Daniele Art Show
On Thursday, July 28, artist Carolyn Daniele is having her first solo exhibition at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Ms. Daniele began her career as a ceramic sculptor but over the years has begun to incorporate painting and collage in her work.
Robust Acre
Anna Edey stooped over one of her many wineberry bushes at her West Tisbury home Saturday afternoon, plucked one of the raspberry-like wild berries and popped it into her mouth.
“What a treat,” she said. “They have no shelf life, so you have to pick them right off the bush.”
MVC Wind Energy Plan Spells Out Possible Rules
A proposed Wind Energy Plan for Dukes County was released for public comment yesterday by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
The document includes two fundamental options regarding possible offshore wind energy development. One would allow development in certain areas defined by the analysis; the other would hold off on short-term development within the waters…
Thrown by Horse, Caught by Community
Lisa (Ben David) Scannell didn’t get five feet past the door of the Portuguese-American Club before the crowd came to her.
Welcome, Rory
Welcome, Rory
Nell Coogan and Anthony Carestia of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Rory Coogan Carestia, born on July 20, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Rory weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.
