Creative Living Award

Creative Living Award Is Announced

Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin will receive the 2010 Creative Living Award, the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard announced yesterday. The award will be presented on Thursday, Oct. 14 at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury beginning at 5:30 p.m. All are cordially invited to attend.

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Helen Lamb and Camp Jabberwocky Receive Island’s Creative Living Award

People have asked her, in their quest to initiate a program similar to the longstanding summer Camp Jabberwocky, how to go about doing so without any start-up money.

Money? Who needs money?

Creative Living Award for Helen Lamb, Jabberwocky

Helen Lamb and Camp Jabberwocky will be honored as recipients of the 2009 Creative Living Award on August 11 at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury beginning at 5:30 p.m. All are invited.

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Hellcat Finally Gets What She Deserves: Creative Living Award

Her camp is the longest running, volunteer-operated overnight camp in the United States for children and adults with disabilities. Helen Lamb founded Camp Jabberwocky over 50 years ago on an impulse to do something good, and she did it, as she does all things, in a way that was pragmatic, efficient and sustainable.

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Ceremony Salutes Salt of the Earth Islanders

On Tuesday afternoon as thunderstorms threatened, they came to the West Tisbury Grange Hall early and straggled in late: fishermen fresh off their boats, cooks from Chilmark and New York, politicians and lawyers in coats and ties, teenagers on skateboards. They came to honor Clarissa Allen and Mitchell Posin, recipients of the 25th annual Award for Creative Living from the Ruth J. Bogan and Ruth Redding fund. The Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha’s Vineyard gives the award every year to acknowledge an Island resident who embodies the spirit of Vineyard living.

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Mitch Posin, Clarissa Allen Take Blue Ribbon for Creative Living

For Mitchell Posin, who runs the Allen Sheep and Wool Company with his wife Clarissa Allen, the most exciting thing on the farm right now is compost.

“This compost tea has really got my juices flowing,” said the farmer, a stone-hard hand resting on the 50-gallon plastic drum he uses in his barn to brew the solution. One barrel is enough to fertilize an acre of land.

“In the space of a single period at the end of a sentence, there are 500,000 bacteria in this. You’re talking little critters,” Mr. Posin enthused.

Tell Me a Story - Susan Klein Captures Creative Living Award

Twenty-five years ago, Susan Klein leapt into the void, counting on
her muse to catch her. She was 30 years old, born and raised in Oak
Bluffs, but she just knew "it was time to go."

"I had just bought the house, the mortgage was due," she
recalled. "I'd quit my job, I had no health insurance, no
retirement, no savings. I had $300 and I drove away. I had nine
days' of work scheduled for the rest of my life."

Creative Living Award Handed to Beloved Doctor, Poet

 

When Dr. Russell S. Hoxsie receives the 2006 Creative Living Award tonight at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury, a relationship that began decades earlier will finally come full circle.

As it turns out, Dr. Hoxsie knew Ruth Redding, the woman who established the award 23 years ago.

"She was a patient of mine," he said with a laugh. "She was an interesting lady, and that kind of makes the connection for me to have known that person. But Gus Ben David, David McCullough and the other recipients - I'm in good company, very good company."

M.J. Bruder Munafo to Receive Ruth Bogan Creative Living Award

Her schedule is never-ending. This summer she has managed to put
together a full season of plays at the Vineyard Playhouse, direct two
plays at the same time - Rounding Third and Romeo and Juliet
- fill the Monday Night Special schedule with new works and famous
names and still enjoy the beauty a Vineyard summer offers.

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