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 9, 2011
News Update: Tuesday, August 9 – Oak Bluffs Names Interim Administrator
The former Falmouth town manager will take the top administrative post in Oak Bluffs, following a unanimous vote by the town selectmen Tuesday.
Robert Whritenour, who served as Falmouth town administrator for 10 years, will take over as interim town administrator. He was the only final candidate for the position after a second…
Sen. Scott Brown to Attend Chamber Breakfast
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown will be the featured speaker at a breakfast to be held Monday, August 15, at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury. The event is being sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce.
The event will begin at 7:15 a.m. with a continental breakfast catered by Kitchen Porch Catering, with the…
News Update: Tuesday, August 9 – Fire at Blue Heron Farm
Chilmark firefighters quickly quelled a small fire at Blue Heron Farm early Tuesday morning. Chilmark fire chief David Norton said the call came in at 3:30 a.m. from an automatic fire alarm in the farmhouse. The fire was in the wall of the main house near a porch that had a gas grill on it.…
Setti Warren’s Senate Run Makes Stop on Vineyard
The mayor of Newton and Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in 2012, Setti Warren, will visit the next meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Democratic Council on Saturday, August 13, at 9 a.m., at the Howes House in West Tisbury. The public is invited to attend.
It is the first of a…
Polishing Drafts of a Heartfelt Life
Martha’s Vineyard knows Nancy Aronie in many ways. She is the mother of two beautiful sons, Josh Aronie, who owns and runs the Menemsha Café, and Dan Aronie, who recently died after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She was instrumental in bringing the story of Dan’s illness, and the inner transformation that it brought…
Rwandan Survivor Urges Peace, Telling Kids to Be Like a Dove
Civil war and genocide hardly sound like good topics for a children’s summer camp, but on Friday afternoon the former Speaker of the Rwandan Parliament addressed the Sense of Wonder Camp in Vineyard Haven about just those subjects, framing his remarks with suggestions on how to live well in the world.
Joseph Sebarenzi…
After Four Back-to-Back Tours Sgt. Willis Awaits Honeymoon
A long queue of summer vacationers walked off the Island Home on Friday night to the blaring sirens of the Tisbury and Oak Bluffs fire departments. A column of the American Legion’s color guard stood at attention at the foot of the steamship walkway and greeted their arrival. All the hospitality was reserved for one…
Where Pond Meets Pavement, Worries Over Rural Feel of an Aquinnah Road
A project to pave a portion of Old South Road in Aquinnah has pitted residents who feel the dirt road is an essential part of the rural character of the town, against others who say the paving is needed for environmental reasons to protect a nearby stream and pond.
Dukes County and the…
President Obama to Return to Island
President Barack Obama and the First Family are expected to return to the Vineyard in a little over a week for their third consecutive summer vacation on the Island.
The White House press office yesterday could not officially confirm the dates of the president’s arrival. But it is understood that Mr. Obama, First…
Amnesty’s Frontlines Meet Harborfront
A few months ago, Donatella Rovera was under rocket fire in Misrata, Libya. A couple of weeks ago Salil Shetty was in the slums of Suez, in Egypt, meeting with the families of the first casualties of the Egyptian uprising.
On Friday they were both seated on a sunny deck in Katama, sipping…
Vineyard Verizon Workers Strike, Joining Larger Landline Dispute
In concert with their colleagues on the mainland, six striking Verizon wireline workers picketed yesterday outside the telephone company office on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Vineyard Haven.
Talk-Back Theatre at Shakespeare’s Shrek
By NICOLE GALLAND
For people who are scared (or uninterested) in the work of William Shakespeare, the Vineyard is a good place to get over it. The Vineyard Playhouse’s summer Shakespeare in the Amphitheatre is as playful and robust as anything on Nickelodeon, and in the off-season, Shakespeare for the Masses makes the…
Jamming Across Generations, Little Feat Is Still Willin’ Band
Paul Barrere is laughing. It’s 9:30 in the morning, after a show in the Poconos, and the saucy, funky guitar player is basking in the afterglow of another night being a catalyst in one of America’s longest running musical hybrids. While Little Feat has never had the commercial success of Southern California contemporaries Jackson Browne,…
Lincoln Lore: Troubadour To Play Civil War Concert
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is hosting a Civil War concert featuring American troubadour Bill Schustik on Thursday, August 11, at 5:30 p.m. at the Federated Church, 45 South Summer street, Edgartown. The concert is being held in conjunction with the museum’s ongoing exhibit We Are Marching Along: Martha’s Vineyard and the Civil War.
Ice Savours
Ice Savours
Ice Savours, a benefit for the ice arena, is from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, August 12, upstairs at the Martha’s Vineyard Chowder House (formerly the Ocean Club), located at 9 Ocean avenue in Oak Bluffs. Enjoy a wine tasting, hors d’oeuvre and a silent and live auction.
Home Buying Seminar
Home Buying Seminar
A question and answer session about home buying with a senior mortgage loan officer of Bank of America, Lorraine Wilson, will be held on Thursday, August 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Take a Cinematic Walk Through the Garden
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.
African Rhythms
African Rhythms
Afghani Exchange Student To the Vineyard Speaks Out
At the age of 15, Massoud Kohistani was chosen along with 40 other first-time students from Afghanistan to spend a year with an American family and learn about democracy. Massoud touched down on American soil in Washington, D.C. but unfortunately, at the last minute, a few of the students were left without host families or…
What the Great Migration Gave Isabel Wilkerson and America
“These people did what the Emancipation Proclamation could not do, what Lincoln could not do, what the North and South alone could not do,” Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson said, outlining one of many legacies of the Great Migration, which she chronicled in The Warmth of Other Suns, her epic account of this demographic seism.
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Cottage Tour Goes Past the Porches
The opportunity to see the interiors of the privately owned cottages on the grounds of the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association occurs only once a year. On Wednesday, August 10, five of the larger cottages which face the Tabernacle on the north end of Trinity Park, as well as a sixth one nearby, will be…
Barber’s Tale of Civil Rights Cuts Deeply, African-American Film Festival Opens
On Wednesday, August 10, at 5 p.m. there will be a screening of the short film The Barber of Birmingham at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. The film is part of the ninth annual Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival taking place here on the Island, beginning today, August 9, and running through Saturday,…
Letters to the President
Letters to the President
Boychick, Yiddish Not Bupkes
With President Obama soon to arrive on the Vineyard, it seems appropriate to look back at an earlier visit. For instance, I was surprised to read and find a Yiddish word linked to our black president. To wit: The Chilmark Tavern’s advertisement in the Vineyard Gazette of August 28, 2009, noted that, “Obama Schlepped Here.”…
Picture Perfect Edgartown Cottage Preserved With Love and Care
By SQUIRE RUSHNELL
My wonderful wife, Louise DuArt, and I live in the Yellow Cottage of Edgartown, built in 1853. We love that our Island’s most prominent artist, Ray Ellis, calls it the “most painted house on the Vineyard.” Is it? I cannot attest. But, were I an artist, I’d have my easel…
Fair Value
Crows were the only inhabitants of the fair grounds at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury yesterday, a thick morning fog hovering over the freshly cut field. But come next week the Ferris wheel will be up, the smell of barbecue and fried dough will float in the air, and wide eyes young…
Tuesday Chronicle: The Dye Is Cast
From a Vineyard Gazette edition of 1931:
Kid Natured
Kid Natured
Mr. G. is coming. And who is Mr. G. you ask? He is the man your children want to see.
Performing songs like Sneaky Chihuahua, Lost Your Teach and Pizza for Breakfast, the man born Ben Gundersheimer is like a pied piper of sorts. He has won 10 ASCAP…
Coast Guard Rescues Three After Pleasure Boat Sinks
Three men were rescued from the water south of the Vineyard Saturday after their 20-foot pleasure craft began taking on water and sank, the Coast Guard said.
President Eisenhower’s Words of Peace Echo at Dawn Hiroshima Remembrance
“Dear friends, people of peace. We gather to remember the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the horror of war and violence, and to rededicate ourselves to a peace sustained by justice.”
So spoke the Rev. Alden Besse to begin the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council’s 34th consecutive remembrance of the explosion of the atomic bomb…
Roundabout on the Roundabout As MVC Votes to Review Project
The plan to build a roundabout at the intersection of Barnes and Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Roads will now be reviewed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission as a development of regional impact (DRI).
The roundabout has been the subject of a decade of planning and a bid is set to go out this fall. But…
