The West Tisbury portion of Middle Road will be closed to through traffic from the town line to Music street on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for road paving. The paving is the first portion of an extensive townwide road repair project that voters approved at the annual town meeting in April. Drivers and residents are asked to plan accordingly.
The Aquinnah fire chief told the town selectmen this week that he was concerned about his ability to provide adequate fire protection for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) after the tribe refused to allow him to inspect tribal buildings.
Island Grown Schools coordinator Kaila Binney is especially excited about January.
“I have this crazy idea,” she said. “I want to get conch in the schools. It’s the biggest export on the Vineyard and nobody eats it.”
Ms. Binney, along with IGS director Noli Taylor, is launching a new program called Harvest of the Month designed to introduce Vineyard students to a new locally-grown crop each month.
Please Adopt Us
With Labor Day now past, the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard has quieted down except for an occasional bark from the two dogs who are waiting for a new home. One is Popi, a beautiful black male greyhound; the other is Sarah, a very sweet Lhasa Apso-beagle cross who loves other animals and people.
The two cats available for adoption are Rex, an older tuxedo black and white who needs a lot of loving attention; and a very sweet nine-month-old ginger and white kitten named Mittens. Two tabby cats will be available in a week or so.
Correction, Addendum
Tom Thatcher, potter and former owner and manager of the Youth Hostel in West Tisbury, was surprised in last Friday’s obituary of Lulu Kaye to find himself mistakenly described as a carpenter. After his first visit to the Vineyard as a Youth Hosteler in 1948, he returned to the Island in 1950 after studying ceramics at Ohio Sate University, and established Martha’s Vineyard Pottery in West Tisbury.
The Rev. Canon Edward Rodman, John Seeley Stone professor of pastoral theology and urban ministry at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, will lead services this Sunday at Trinity Church in Ocean Park. A well-known advocate for reform of the country’s legal, housing and education systems, the subject of Rev. Rodman’s sermon will be The Road From Charity to Justice.
Prior to 1648 when Thomas Mayhew Jr. proselytized Hiacoomes, the first of the original people to adopt Christianity at Pecoy Point, the neighborhood was called Pohqu-auk, meaning open land. As a major campsite, the area was used for gathering shellfish and eels, and growing corn, squash and tobacco.
The September–October issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine explores the migratory habits of off-Islanders who end up settling full-time on Martha’s Vineyard.
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 August 23. It was a warm evening with a moderate south-southwest wind of about 10 knots. Twenty-one boats posted at the start at red nun 6 outside of the Vineyard Haven breakwater, making three Thursday nights in a row with 20-plus starters. A triangle course was set with the fleet sailing to green can 23A at East Chop, then to red nun 4 at West Chop, and returning to red nun 6.
Martha’s Vineyard Bible Church will sponsor guest speaker Dr. J. B. Hixson on Sunday, Sept. 9 at 10 a.m.
Dr. Hixson, an expert in the areas of soteriology and eschatology, has more than 25 years of experience as a professor, pastor, author and national conference speaker. He is the author of the books Getting the Gospel Wrong (2008), The Gospel Unplugged (2011) and Freely By His Grace (co-editor, 2012), as well as numerous theological journal articles.
