To keep abreast with the changing times, the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association has altered the way it brings in and hosts the summer programs at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs.

"Things have changed because public taste is changing," said program director Robert Cleasby. "Many of the groups that used to come wouldn't be of interest today. I have been here for many years, long before I became program director in 1991, and I have seen that people's tastes have gone upscale like the Vineyard has gone upscale."

One state senator, one state representative, one Steamship
Authority governor and a band of Nantucket residents and town
officials spoke out yesterday in favor of a voting seat for the
town of Barnstable on the boat line board — but not for New
Bedford.

"My job is to make sure Barnstable gets a vote. But New
Bedford has to be proven to be viable before it can get a vote.
Now, they should not be on the board at all," said Barnstable
Rep.

SSA Member Skirts Issues

By JULIA WELLS

Vineyard Steamship Authority governor J.B. Riggs Parker said
this week that he will take no formal position on the pending
legislation to dramatically change the boat line governing
board.

"We are servants of the legislature; we are servants of the
state. The legislature is responsible for creating the framework
of the authority and they are entitled to change that framework,
and I don't believe that the authority member needs to take a
particular position," Mr.

Public health officials this week confirmed the third case
of tularemia contracted on the Vineyard.

The 30-year-old woman killed in last Saturday's moped accident in Oak Bluffs loved to make furniture, especially chests and tables. Kate Dunnet Miller was president of her high school alumni association. "There was a charisma about her, a vibrancy. She was a real extrovert," said her mother-in-law, Dr. Caryn Miller of Washington, D.C.

Students Join Caribbean Dance

By ALEXIS TONTI

From a seat facing Monty Thompson's Caribbean dance class at
The Yard, it is easy to distinguish the students from the
members of the Caribbean Dance Company. They are separated by
degrees of flexibility, of confidence versus hesitance - the
difference between being on the beat or a fraction of a step
behind.

After a time, however, three girls emerge as occupants of an
undefined middle ground. During warm-up they stand in the front
row, a spot others look to for guidance; but then Mr.

Despite winning unanimous approval from the Martha's Vineyard
Commission this spring, a plan to build a youth tennis center near
the blinker light in Oak Bluffs now faces an uphill battle to win
approval at the town level.

By 4:30 p.m. Sunday, the cars that usually line Main street
and Union street in Vineyard Haven were gone. One hundred and
twenty-five booths lined the two streets instead, and by 6:30 p.m.,
with the official start of the Tisbury Street Fair, waves of people
filled downtown.

Entering the street fair from any direction revealed a scene
of excitement and smiles.

SSA Traffic Slips

By JULIA WELLS

Early summer passenger traffic on the Steamship Authority's
newly acquired New Bedford ferry Schamonchi is down compared
with last year, even though the boat line has launched an
advertising program to boost ridership on the ferry.

"We're off," said boat line treasurer Wayne Lamson
yesterday.

Passenger traffic on the Schamonchi is down 18.6 per cent
for the month of June compared with last year, but Mr.

On Night Patrol in Edgartown

By MANDY LOCKE

It's 10 o'clock on Friday night in Edgartown. Kids with ice
cream cones and fathers with strollers disappeared from Main street
hours ago. A sea of 20-somethings and 40-somethings who dream about
being 20-something again has replaced the crowds of families
shuffling through the streets of downtown.

Women glide down the brick sidewalks in runway fashion in
their newest brightly colored tank tops. Men trail them, staking
claims early. One cannot mistake a certain urgency in the crowd's
pace.