FAIR WINDS: Petrel, a 70 foot, two inch, yawl that has been out of the water at Tisbury Marine Railway, on Beach Road, for five years was taken apart on Monday and most of it trucked away. Some of its parts are on their way to California, including her mast, to be incorporated in another yet-to-be-built vessel.

Petrel was built in 1938 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was a Sparkman and Stephens design wood sailboat. Owen Stephens, a world-class boat designer, had a significant hand in her design. He is well-known for designing America’s Cup sailboats.

Leigh Jennings Anderson and Michael Stewart Morgan were married on Oct. 9, 2011 at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Edgartown. Deacon Karl G. Buder officiated the ceremony. A reception followed at Farm Neck Golf Club.

HOLLY NADLER

508-274-2329

(hollynadler@gmail.com)

It’s been a month since my dog got slimed by a skunk, and I’m now prepared to render a full debriefing:

First, let it be said that a lot of townsfolk assured me, “Don’t feel badly, my dog has been skunked four or five times this summer.”

Sissinghurst Castle Talk

Sissinghurst Castle, located in Kent, England, is one of the world’s most celebrated gardens. In the 1930’s Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created a garden in the ruin of an Elizabethan manor, realigning Sissinghurst with its Elizabethan past. Sissinghurst also had a past as a thriving farm.

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kathleencase@comcast.net)

I think we are all confused on what time of year it is. The sun is coming up later and later and it is setting earlier and earlier, however the temperatures are still in the mid-sixties and low seventies. I know a lot of us are not complaining as we don’t have to turn on the heat.

BRAD WOODGER

508-627-4216

(ibwsgolf@aol.com)

Thumper taught me that if I didn’t have something nice to say about someone, then I should say nothing at all. So mum is the word on today.

Trudy Taylor of Aquinnah has a "hole" lot going on. She called last Saturday morning with an inquiry about a houseplant harasser.

It seems that something is afoot among her flowers. Her houseplants are being disturbed by a dastardly digger! Someone or something has been excavating the soil in her potted plants. The culprit digs a hole and removes the soil, leaving it in a pile next to the pots.

Once a boy met girl. They bought a sailboat and used it to do marine mammal, bird and lizard research between Maine and the Lesser Antilles. They made a pact when they met that they wouldn’t do the same thing for more than 10 years. Kiddingly, they also said when they reached a certain age — old folks — they would purchase an RV and travel around the United States. The same couple sold their sailboat and went to work running a small cruise ship that held 85 passengers. He was the captain and she the naturalist.

Editor’s Note: Columnist Lynne Irons was struck with the flu and will be back next week. The following column by her was published in the Gazette on Oct. 12, 2007.

By LYNNE IRONS

Editor’s Note: Columnist Lynne Irons was struck with the flu and will be back next week. The following column by her was published in the Gazette on Oct. 12, 2007.

Arboretum Award

On June 28 the Polly Hill Arboretum’s newsletter, Meristems, received theDorothy E. Hansell Publication Award for newsletters and special publications at the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) annual meeting.