When the Vineyard Haven Band plays in Ocean Park, the musicians hope
no one arrives late and that nature does not call during the performance
- because once the trapdoor goes down in the bandstand, there is
no way in or out.
Art Buchwald, the writer whose hospice stay turned into a lease on
life, returned Saturday afternoon to his beloved Martha's
Vineyard.
Mr. Buchwald arrived at Martha's Vineyard Airport at 12:30
p.m. in a private plane that flew directly from Washington Dulles
International Airport. Family members then drove him to his home on Main
street in Vineyard Haven.
People love lighthouses. When you enter the word into Google's
search engine, 44,800,000 sites pop up. There are lighthouse magazines,
magnets and sweatshirts. The New England region even has its own fan
group dedicated to the structure - New England Lighthouse Lovers.
"Lighthouses are modern day castles," said Craig Dripps,
president of the East Chop Association. "They have a sense of
magic and history. They hold secrets."
A woman visitor driving a moped down a straight stretch of the
Edgartown-West Tisbury Road in West Tisbury on Sunday was killed after
she reportedly lost control of the two-wheeled vehicle and struck a
utility pole head-on.
Three Dissenting Commissioners Speak Out About Class Divide; Others
Agree, But Vote Yes on Edgartown Field Club
Despite bluntly expressed concerns about the changing character of
the Island and a widening economic divide among its residents, the
Martha's Vineyard Commission last week approved an upscale
members-only recreational facility proposed for Katama.
High seas and gusting winds over the weekend prevented the safe
removal of a 71-foot fishing boat that washed onto Norton Point Beach
Saturday morning.
As summer moves into high gear on the Island, the Martha's Vineyard Hospital will launch the final push to raise the rest of the money for the construction of a new building.
Hospital chief executive officer Timothy Walsh said the building campaign has raised about $33 million of the $42 million required to rebuild the hospital at its Linton Lane campus in the Eastville section of Oak Bluffs.
Chilmark town beaches Lucy Vincent and Squibnocket remain closed to
swimming after droves of Portuguese man-of-war began washing up on the
southern shore of the Island Monday, stinging five swimmers within
minutes at Lucy Vincent. Two of the swimmers were hospitalized and
released for wounds from the jellyfish-like creatures.
Island residents and visitors have been warned about the high
prevalence of tick-borne diseases and skin cancer on the Vineyard. But
meanwhile, another medical malady has been quietly eating away at the
health of the Island population.
For reasons that still remain unclear, people on Martha's
Vineyard suffer from fractures of the fifth metatarsal - the small
bone that runs along the outer edge of the foot - in unprecedented
numbers.
