At first, students didn’t know what to make of the pile of cedar saplings and sheets of poplar bark piling up in Harvard Yard. They were even more perplexed when Mark Andrews, cultural resource manager for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), assisted by fellow Vineyarders Jonathan and Elizabeth Perry, began showing a group of volunteers how to sink the saplings deep into the Yard’s hallowed lawn.
The Cape Wind Decision
Just like the wind that is a nearly constant presence on the Island — it rattled the windows of gray-shingled houses this week with cold spring gusts that felt more like early March than late April — the debate over Cape Wind has blown in and out of the Cape and Islands for nine years.
The early childhood program at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services has been named one of the best in the state.
The Island program is among the Top 10 High Performing School Readiness Organizations in Massachusetts, according to Social Impact Research, a part of Root Cause, a firm dedicated to mobilizing the nonprofit, public and business sectors to work together.
Storyteller extraordinaire Susan Klein begins a new session of her popular memoir organization and writing workshop, Spice of Life. The eight-week course will meet, she says, “at twilight,” 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Thursdays, May 6 through June 24 at the Tisbury Senior Center.
Through her courses, many people have recorded stories of their life experiences, for fun, for their family, or for posterity.
For more information and prices, please call 508 693-4140.
Martha’s Vineyard Adventure Camp, an Island outdoor exploration camp that began last summer, is offering a 15 per cent discount to campers registered by May 15.
Camp director Stephen Fox says the camp is about engaging children in adventurous activities within a supportive, educational and safe outdoor environment. Activities include kayak-ing, fishing, nature hiking, mountain biking, surfing and boogie boarding and tidal pool exploration.
Self-made millionaire and best-selling author Lynn Donohue will speak at the season’s final meeting of the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network, on Thursday, May 6, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Ms. Donohue was living out of her car, earning minimum wage as a bar tender at a local biker hangout when she began taking brick masonry training. Before the age of 40, the former drop-out was a millionaire entrepreneur with a New Bedford-based foundation, Brick by Brick, that helps teenagers foster creativity and adults struggling with career choices.
Help plant and clean up Mytoi, the public Japanese-style garden on Chappaquiddick, on Saturday, May 1, any time from 9 a.m. to noon. Bring your own work gloves, rakes, and shovels.
Please let The Trustees of Reservations know if you plan to attend; call 508-627-7689.
The Stone Soup Leadership Institute announced this week that the Menemsha Inn will host the Vineyard’s first youth summit for sustainable development. The summit will be held from June 26 to July 2; 50 young people aged 16 to 23 will envision their future and learn to become leaders of a more sustainable world.
Peter and Clare Ives, of Aquinnah, announce the engagement of their daughter Chelsea Ives to Sean Kelley. Sean is the son of Michael and Paula Kelley, of Newburyport. A September 2011 wedding is planned.
