Controversy breeds questions, and an Island visitor has some answers.
Harvard Professor of Law and Chilmark summer resident Alan
Dershowitz presents Rights and Wrongs: How the Supreme Court and The
United Nations Have Hijacked Our Rights, at the Chilmark Library on
Thursday, July 26 at 5 p.m. He will address the issues facing individual
rights in today’s political climate.
The event is free but seating is limited, so arrive early. For more information, call 508-645-3360.
Singer, songwriter and activist Holly Near performs with pianist
John Buccino and guitarist Coleen Kittau at The Old Whaling Church on
Sunday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m.
Ms. Near has a long history of using music for social activism. She was a 2005 nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize as one of the 1000 Women for Peace. She has performed on Broadway in the show Hair and in film and on television.
For more information, visit hollynear.com.
On behalf of Adult and Community Education of Martha’s Vineyard, we would like to extend great thanks to the sponsors, supporters, organizations and community leaders for helping us with this year’s One Day University: Arts, Culture, Sustainability event.
On June 16, the Blitz Fitness karate students and their instructors held their annual kick-a-thon at the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Every year the students attempt to outdo their previous record of kicks, typically numbering in the thousands.
A tragedy over the Independence Day holiday involving a 34-foot cabin cruiser in Oyster Bay, N.Y., brings to light a hazard that may not be at the top of every boater’s list of concerns: passenger and load limits.
As frequent visitors to this magnificent Island for the past 40 years, my husband and I thought we knew just about all there was to know about Martha’s Vineyard history and culture. We were wrong! Last weekend, we decided to take an African-American history tour with Robert Hayden, an Oak Bluffs resident for over 40 years. The experience was utterly fascinating; we were captivated from the very start of this tour, which lasted an hour longer than we had been told.
The following letter was sent to Bret Stearns, natural resources director for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah):
The town of Aquinnah would like to thank you and members of the tribe’s natural resources department for all the hard work you did protecting Aquinnah’s natural resources during the grounding of the lobster boat Sherry Ann July 10 out by Squibnocket Point.
This is so familiar, the stories, the struggles that all of you are dealing with. I know firsthand what Lyme disease can do to one’s livelihood. I’ve lived with it for 17 years now, not only Lyme, but Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Brucellosis.
Peter Robb, in his July 13 letter, has recently furnished Gazette readers with several fine examples of unabashed Republican thinking, as put forth by their hard-working public relations staff and faithfully hammered into our eyes and ears by “Fair and Balanced” Fox News. All the Democrats need do is give this hogwash the widest possible circulation, and they can win in a walk.
In response to Peter Robb’s letter, Losing Faith:
I was enjoying your letter of July 13 until I realized they must have left out the paragraph where you offered any proof for your negative assertions regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
