Announcing Emmanuel
Jussara Sampoa and Wellingdon Pessoa of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Emmanuel Henrique Sampaid Pessoa, on July 12 at Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Emmanuel weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces at birth.
Welcome Harrison
Randy A. Lazarus and Elizabeth Adams Barnes announce the birth of a son, Harrison Adams Barnes Lazarus, born May 9 at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. He weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces.
Paul Taylor’s gravity-defying masterwork Esplanade, danced to Bach by the Taylor 2 company, tops a packed lineup for this year’s Diversity in Dance, the annual showcase of dance sponsored by The Yard.
The performance begins Sunday, July 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, with a dessert and champagne reception with the cast following.
It’s a benefit bivalve banquet: come to the annual clambake and auction to raise money for the Vineyard Nursing Association, the Island’s only home health care agency, on Wednesday, July 23, at 6 p.m. at The Field Gallery in West Tisbury.
The Powder, the Glory
See it before it comes to PBS in early 2009: The Powder and the Glory, produced and directed by seasonal Menemsha resident Arnie Reisman and Ann Carol Grossman, will screen at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven on Sunday evening, July 20, at 7:30 p.m.
Holmes Hole Sailors Race
In Vineyard Haven Waters
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its Thursday evening series of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a 6 p.m. race on July 10.
It was a warm, hazy evening with a fresh southwest wind of 10 to 15 knots. Ten boats posted for the start at red nun 6 outside of the Vineyard Haven breakwater.
Tennis Pro of Year
Scott Smith, executive director of Vineyard Youth Tennis, recently received the regional pro of the year award from the U.S. Professional Tennis Association.
The award was presented at the annual convention held in Stratton Mountain, Vt.
Mr. Smith was also elected in February to the association’s Eastern New England board of directors.
A Shark Drops By
It didn’t take much. A large shark was sighted on the morning of July tenth off South Beach in Edgartown. Within twenty-four hours, three Island beaches had been closed and reopened, a false sighting hoax at Joseph A. Sylvia State Beach had been perpetrated, and media around the world had picked up the story.
The shark probably still doesn’t know all the fuss it caused.
Having lived on the Vineyard for over four years (these stretches of time sometimes get hazy on the Vineyard watch) I realized I had never been a passenger from the mainland to the Island on the Fourth of July.
