Jane Kenyon
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. I am the heart contracted by joy, the longest hair, white before the rest.-Jane Kenyon
August 2, 2011
Pond Tests Clean
Seth’s Pond is open for swimming today, after water samples taken yesterday were found acceptable.
The popular public pond was closed on Wednesday, due to a sample showing bacteria above the acceptable range.
News Update: Seth’s Pond Is Closed to Swimming
Seth’s Pond is closed to swimming due to high bacteria counts in Monday’s routine sampling results, West Tisbury board of health agent John Powers said Wednesday morning.
Signs are posted to warn bathers of the bacteria.
The announcement follows a series of inexplicable readings and beach closures around the Vineyard. Inkwell,…
Deadline looms for $1,000 Vineyard Gazette Web Video Contest
Entries are due by midnight, Aug. 12, in the Vineyard Gazette’s web video contest. We’re looking for creative filmmakers/aspiring marketers who can take a fresh look at a historic brand and help us promote the Vineyard Gazette to a new generation of readers.
Stars, Sales and the Social Side of Art
The Tabernacle wore a dress of paintings, collages and photographs, hung on a wire mesh, yesterday as it played host to artists of all ages entered in the 53rd annual All-Island Art Show.
Dreams Auction Raises $251,000
What happens to a dream deferred? Fortunately for the bidders and dreamers at the 33rd annual Possible Dreams auction last night, they’ll never have to know.
Beneath the canopy of a beautiful sunset in Oak Bluffs, the audience rallied to raise over $251,350 before the final tally for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services despite…
Sebastian Junger on Brotherhood , Boys and the High of Not Dying
Ultimately, war is merely the continuation of politics by other means. But intimately, it’s all about sociology and biology.
And that’s the aspect of war which engaged Sebastian Junger, in writing his book War, and making the documentary Restrepo — and also most of the overflow crowd which attended his address to the…
Surprise Performance Nets Playhouse Support for New Patricia Neal Stage
The Vineyard Playhouse raised $350,000 at its annual fundraiser on Sunday night, a huge boost for the capital campaign now under way to renovate the historic playhouse building on Church street in Vineyard Haven. The renovation project includes remodeling the stage, which will be named after the late actress Patricia Neal, it was announced at…
Not Plugged in on Electric Car Grants
The Vineyard will soon be surrounded on all sides by communities making the jump to next-generation energy infrastructure. On July 22 Falmouth, Nantucket and New Bedford each learned that they had won state grants to install electric car recharging stations, but for now the Vineyard will remain wedded to gasoline.
Smiling from Ear to Ear
There was an extra level of urgency at Morning Glory Farm on Saturday morning as two corn pickers worked their way through rows of corn plants in the Edgartown field. For the field crew, Saturday means arriving at 6:30 a.m. so they can pick for both the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market and the stand. By…
Drawbridge Clear Today
Drawbridge Clear Today
Drawbridge work scheduled for today has been postponed, according to county officials. MassHighway had planned to reduce traffic on the bridge to single-lane while an auxiliary motor was installed but the work will not take place today.
Indictments Issued in Drugs, Theft Cases
A Dukes county grand jury returned indictments last week against a former state probation officer who faces cocaine trafficking charges and two Oak Bluffs men who have been charged in connection with robbing an elderly Island man of his life savings.
The Doctor Is In the Lighthouse: Just One Della Moment to Savor
The painted wooden sign resting on the base of the podium in Ocean Park read Savor the Moment, and when celebrated poet Sonia Sanchez stepped to the microphone to begin her program during Della Hardman Day on Saturday, it was impossible to imagine doing anything else. Words on a page are poor conveyors of the…
Library Used Book Sale Thrives As Print Declares It’s Not Dead Yet
Book lovers flocked to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School this past weekend for the 54th annual West Tisbury Book Sale. Vineyarders and vacationers of all ages perused the well-organized stacks for literary treasures. Sections included travel, gardening, architecture, mystery, children’s books (perhaps the most extensive of all), art, nonfiction, fiction, there was even a Vineyard…
Film Depicts the Varied Stances on Cape Wind
Tonight, August 2, at 8 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is presenting a film whose subject matter knows no shortage of dedicated believers, angry dissenters, and, perhaps largest of all the constituents, the confused masses in the middle.
The film is called Cape Spin and it aims to chronicle both sides of…
Brooklyn Poet Laureate Burrows Deep
How did Tina Chang become the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn? By writing the following words:
“I walk the streets of Brooklyn looking at this storefront and that, buy a pair of shoes I can’t afford, pumps from London, pointed at the tip and heartbreakingly high, hear my new heels clicking, crushing the legs…
Eisenstaedt From Many Angles
As a photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured many of the most famous images of the 20th century, from wars to movie stars. He was, in a sense, the world’s photographer. But he was also the Vineyard’s own, taking numerous photos during his many summer spent on the Island.
Big Wave, Bigger Legend: Surf Man Rides into Town
In the 1966 documentary, The Endless Summer, director Bruce Brown chronicled the journey of two friends from California chasing waves across the globe. It was a seminal movie that helped fuel the rise of the burgeoning sport. Yes, surfing once was referred to as burgeoning; just a minor blip on the marketers’ radar and considered…
Spy Talk
Spy Talk
The CIA is speaking. Well, at least Vicki Divol, former CIA lawyer, is talking and she’s doing it right here at the Chilmark Public Library.
Ms. Divol’s lecture is entitled Can the President Keep Counterterrorist Operations Secret from Congress? It will take place on Wednesday, August 3, at 5:30…
Rafaela Arrives
Rafaela Arrives
Fernanda Murta and Vaiceir Rangel of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Rafaela Murta Rangel, born on July 30, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Rafaela weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces at birth.
Welcome Lauren
Welcome Lauren
Sarah and Jason Look of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Lauren Jane Look, born on July 22, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Lauren weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces at birth.
As Mr. Collins Said, With a Modest Chuckle
The poem begins with the routine event of chopping parsley, a serious and yet absurd musing on a nursery rhyme known to all — three blind mice — and quickly spins into a quiet meditation on the sneaking cynicism that prevents us from feeling, and then, in shame, makes us feel all the more.
No Man Is an Island When Dreaming of Chappy’s Future
By CAMRON ADIBI
Chappaquiddick is an island again. This has created a noticeable and understandable reaction from people on Chappy and beyond. Personally, this dramatic movement of sand has stirred something deep inside me. The Norton Point breach has become the Grand Canyon of the East. The sheer force and power makes me…
Lighting Candle for Human Rights
In 1958, on the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt rhetorically asked the question:
Bountiful Fields Even After Harvest , Gleaners Gather for Good Cause
So there I was, hurtling along the West-Tisbury-Edgartown Road in my 1948 red Willys Jeepster convertible, the wind blowing in my hair, sun shining on my face and 200 pounds of patty-pan squash riding comfortably along with me in my open-air vehicle. Was this a dream, had I robbed a farm stand or was I…
Tuesday Chronicle: Inn Keeping
From Gazette editions of August, 1960:
Piles of lumber, joists, furring boards of various lengths and thickness, all rapidly diminishing, and some scattered stones and lumps of mortar are all that remains of the Eastville Inn. Soon the ground will be cleared, raked over, no doubt seeded with grass, and another Island landmark…
Letters to the Editor
OZZIE FISCHER MEMORIES
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following are comments from the Gazette Web site on the obituary for Albert O. (Ozzie) Fischer Jr.
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Mr. Fischer’s spirit will always flow throughout the Vineyard, without doubt. Through his hard work over his entire life, his graceful touch is indelible.…
Adding a New Piece to Island’s Landscape of Modular Homes
A seven-piece modular home was assembled with a lot of fanfare last week in Oak Bluffs. Bill Potter, a general contractor with Squash Meadow Construction Inc., got his friends together, held an open house on Thursday and began to share the story about how Bruce and Renee Balter got their new two-bedroom house.
