Breese Architects Featured

In Book At Home by the Sea

Breese Architects of Vineyard Haven is featured in a new book of work by the renowned photographer Brian Vanden Brink. The book, At Home by the Sea, examines the unique design of Atlantic Coast homes from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean. The Breese Architects article focuses on designing and siting a home with minimal disruption of a coastal bank and numerous water views.

Acclaimed concert pianist Sarah Haera Tocco makes her Vineyard debut with virtuosic Romantic masterworks in a Piano Recital at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, May 24, at 8 p.m.

Chapter One

Dear P:

Call me Becca! That’s what everyone still calls me, back here on the rock. I love it; makes me feel like a kid again.

Getting here was a pain in the butt. There are now several ways of schlepping to the Vineyard from NYC without a car (or a private jet), but I don’t know that any of them are an improvement over the old standby: bus from Port Authority to Woods Hole, and then the ferry.

Tennis Classic

The Vineyard Youth Tennis Center will host its second fundraiser for its scholarship fund on May 31 and June 1. The entry fee is $80 per adult team and $50 per junior team. All money raised will benefit the scholarship fund that will enable deserving children to attend week-long tennis academies in Florida. Entry forms can be downloaded at vineyardyouthtennis.org, or can be obtained by calling 508-693-7762.

Tennis, Anyone?

The Vineyard Youth Tennis Center will be hosting a mixed doubles tennis tournament from May 30 to June 1 at its facility in Oak Bluffs. The tournament will benefit the center’s scholarship fund that raises money to send deserving children to tennis academies in Florida. Entry fee is $80 per adult team and $50 for a junior team.

For more information, call Scott Smith at 508-693-7762 or e-mail at scott@vineyard.net. Registration forms can also be downloaded from their Web site at vineyardyouthtennis.org.

Alison Shaw: Orange

The opening reception for the 2008 season at the Alison Shaw Gallery is set for Saturday, May 24 from 4 to 7 p.m.

This year the gallery is showing work from Ms. Shaw’s many series of fine art photographs, unified by the theme of color. Gallery hours (after Saturday) will be Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. The gallery is at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs. More information is available by calling 508-696-7429.

The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation this week issued a public apology and launched an overhaul of its land management practices following the revelation that large numbers of trees and other plants had been dug up from two of its preserves and used to landscape an exclusive private property on the North Shore.

This week Edgartown was bustling — mainly with landscaping crews who were renovating, refurbishing and touching up properties in time for the official start date of the tourist season. Lumber hung from the back of trucks and the smell of paint and fresh mown grass breezed along Main street and its peripheries, where many businesses are preparing to reopen to the public, and several more to just a few high-paying members.

The Boston Pops had a “don’t call us, we’ll call you” arrangement with the more than 200 high school students vying for a place in the finals of the orchestra’s first statewide singing contest. So when the phone hadn’t rung by 4 p.m. Sunday, Katie Mayhew, a sophomore at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, was resigned to her fate.

A bomb squad from the Massachusetts State Police detonated several pieces of unexploded ordnance left over from World War II on Chappaquiddick last Wednesday, sending a thundering boom across the island and rattling foundations from Cape Pogue to Sampson’s Hill.

The explosion prompted concerned calls to the Island communications center and Edgartown police department, and was the subject of speculation all across the tight-knit Chappy community for several days.