RICK HERRICK
508-693-8065
Kate Hancock is one of those East Choppers that make the Island work. She is the production manager of the Island Playhouse. Kate is a lifelong summer resident of East Chop who moved here permanently with her husband Fred, a technical director and lighting designer, the principal behind Upfront Production Services, in July of 2005.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
Here we are at the Fourth of July weekend. The Island is getting busier, the lines are getting longer at the Stop & Shop and the traffic is back at the Triangle.
Happy birthday to all who celebrated their birthday this past week.
Kim Carter, a student of Northeastern University, will be studying abroad this summer. Her travels will take her to Spain and Turkey. Last summer she studied in China. Kim is the daughter of Jim and Debbie Carter. She is majoring in health science.
BETTYE FOSTER BAKER
508-696-9983
Oak Bluffs has no rocky coastline, or well-heeled casinos, no four-star restaurants, or dapperly dressed regulars, except for a well known 91-year-old character affectionately known as CJ (Charles Jones), whose classy dress has been legendary in this town since 1942. This is not Marseilles, though we do have our understated rich who play basketball unnoticed and ride around town in state-of-the-art two-wheeled contraptions.
NANCY GARDELLA
508-693-3308
I snuck away from the family last Friday night and had a grand time, first at Louisa Gould’s gallery attending a reception for four artists, and then at the Bunch of Grapes listening to Phil Dine speak on his new book, State of the Unions.
Freya Arrives
Alison and Scott Stearns of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Freya Anne Stearns, on June 18 at Newton Wellesley Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces at birth.
Hello, Milo
Karolina Sullivan and Michael Sullivan of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Milo Alexander Sullivan, on June 25 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Milo weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce at birth.
Corrections
In an interview in Tuesday’s Gazette with John Potter and Todd Alexander, there was a mention about the young sailors’ sailing technique as youths more than 30 years ago. Mr. Potter said after the interview that he used the word sheet to describe their sailing technique, not cheat. Mr. Potter said on Wednesday: “We won the races by sheeting.”
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Vineyard Horse Council
Announces Summer Shows
The Martha’s Vineyard Horse Council has announced its summer schedule of hunter and dressage shows on the grounds of the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society.
The shows will begin about 8 a.m.
Scheduled shows include July 6 and August 3 for dressage; July 20 and August 10 for hunter; Sept. 14 for the Fall Pace Ride from Misty Meadow; and Sept. 27 for the Fall Fuzzy.
They’re back! The humongous Aqua Velva pond lilies, indigenous only to Menemsha Pond, have arrived on schedule bringing joy to the intrepid racing sailors of the pond.
These giant flowers have always appeared on July 1, except for last year. Their annual bloom is known locally as the Miracle of the Marks. For many years Art Railton has documented this momentous annual event and the involvement of the great Aqua Velva scientific expert, the infamous Danish Professor Nortu B. Lief.
