Gravestone Girls

The Gravestone Girls are coming to Vineyard Haven. Are you ready?

The girls are cemetery historians who claim as their mission to keep the dead alive. On Tuesday, June 21 at 7 p.m. they will appear at the Vineyard Haven Library to lead a virtual tour through the Vineyard’s 31 graveyards.

O Negative Blood Needed

The American Red Cross doesn’t care if you’re a Twilight fan or not; they’re about saving lives. To that end, every pint of blood makes a big difference.

Next Tuesday, June 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the Red Cross will be at the Portuguese-American Club on Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs.

Who’s to say you didn’t walk the earth before. Maybe you were Joan of Arc or Genghis Khan. Then again, the possibility that you were Robert Smith Nobody or Abigail Nevermind Never Did Nothing is also just as likely. So are scenarios of brief lives as grasshoppers or species of spiders. The possibilities are endless. And we’ll never really know, right?

NO TICKET, STILL TOUR

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

From a summer, 1962 Gazette:

History has much to say about Indian wampum, or “shell-money,” as it is sometimes called. Apparently all Indians east of the Mississippi used wampum for money or other purposes, and even some of those who lived far from the coastal areas but who prized this product of the fishing Indians’ ingenuity.

Baby boomers may shudder at the thought but Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna founding member Jorma Kaukonen is entering his sixth decade of performing. It may be somewhat reassuring, then, to know that Mr. Kaukonen, he of blistering licks and subtle fingerpicks, is still at the top of his game.

Don’t describe Gov. Deval Patrick’s book, A Reason to Believe, as a political biography. He takes issue with both words: political and biography.

For a start, he argues, the book is not political in that it isn’t “directed towards a political end, a prelude to another campaign or settling old scores.”

And that’s generally true. The book dishes no dirt and canvasses no specific detail of policy positions. And Mr. Patrick has long promised he will not run again for his current job.

Dean’s List

Daniel K. Kaeka 5th, of West Tisbury, has been named to the dean’s list at Western New England for the spring semester of 2011. Mr. Kaeka is a junior majoring in pre-pharmacy.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has joined Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to Schools program, run through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Island caterers Jan Buhrman and Jamie Hamlin have partnered with the school lunch chef Leslie Floyd to create healthy, delicious meals that meet the school’s dietary guidelines and budgets. They will join an effort with school nurse Linda Leonard, who is working with staff to teach young people about nutrition and making balanced and healthy choices.