In the second block of Circuit avenue between Park, now Healy Way, and Narragansett avenues, postcards give a glimpse at the street scene a century ago.
The Metropolitan Hotel, one of the town’s landmarks, filled the corner of Circuit, Park and Kennebec avenues. Postcards show not only the exterior of the 75-room hotel with its tall clock tower, but also its first-floor retail shops, Norton’s Pharmacy and Rausch’s confectionary.
50 Years Ago
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1957:
October will be a month of firsts for Island-raised artist Paul Carrick. This month, four of his paintings will be hung at the world’s only science fiction museum in Switzerland. “It’s the first time I will have my stuff on real walls,” he said by telephone this week. When he steps off of the plane in Switzerland to view his work, it will be the first time he sets foot in Europe. “It’s going to be an overload of stimulation,” the artist, 35, said.
PROTECT HORSE TRAILS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
Artist Lynn Christoffers is exhibiting photographic work prints from two current book projects — Children on the Vineyard, and Cats on the Vineyard.
The works in progress by Ms. Christoffers, of West Tisbury and New York city, are on show at M. M. Stone Fine Art on State Road in West Tisbury, from Saturday, Sept. 29 through Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The gallery is open every day from 1 to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For details, call 508-693-0396.
Garden Obelisks
On Saturday, Oct. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon, Janice Shields, owner of Cut It Out, a business committed to recycling invasive species to craft practical and decorative structures for the garden, will conduct a garden obelisk workshop at Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury. An obelisk is a freestanding structure that provides a focal point in the garden.
Elizabeth Germain will teach a super foods cooking class at the FARM Institute at Katama Farm in Edgartown on Sunday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The class will begin in the FARM’s friendship garden, rain or shine, where participants will pick vegetables and herbs for lunch and some to preserve. The focus will be foods dramatically better for health and longevity and basic cooking techniques. You’ll learn how to clean, store and prepare powerhouse foods like kale, cabbage, parsley, leeks, pumpkin seeds and millet — a gluten-free whole grain.
On almost the last day of summer my husband and I loaded our kayaks on top of the car and found our way to the entrance of Squibnocket Pond for our last waterway exploration of the summer.
The four churches of the United Methodist Cooperative Ministry will hold a joint service at the Edgartown United Methodist Church, the Old Whaling Church, on Main street in Edgartown on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 11 a.m.
Troubling Youth Statistics
The percentage leaps off the page. According to a Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted this past February among Island students from seventh through twelfth grades, twelve per cent of the high school students said they had attempted suicide in the previous twelve months.
That’s a startling number in itself. It looms even larger when compared to the response to the same question in three similar Vineyard surveys between two thousand and two thousand five: five per cent.
