In the early 1990s Jane Brown was living in Virginia surrounded by family and a large community of friends. She moved to Virginia in the 1950s because her first husband was employed there. So, for 40 years Jane raised her three sons and taught grade school English in Virginia — until one day . . .

As expressed by her son, Chris, “One day Mom announced she was moving full-time to Martha’s Vineyard. She said she felt the Island was calling her home. So she consciously moved to the Island to live out her remaining years.”

Jane’s Beautiful Soul

to experience the Vineyard’s magical majesty

to see the idiosyncracies of each backyard tree

to look at our Island’s night sky as always new

to talk to her dog, Mac, as though to me and you

in one of Jane’s poems entitled My Trees

she hears “screeching sound of saws on trees”

so roads can be made and houses built

in forest where she and a boy once walked

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

April 15 58 40 T

April 16 49 35

April 17 53 42 .38

April 18 57 42 T

April 19 58 45

April 20 60 45 .05

April 21 56 44 T

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 54º F.

The Lyrid meteor shower is tonight. For those who love to sit out on a still night and watch shooting stars, tonight is the first big opportunity for the year. If the weather does not cooperate, there may be something to see tomorrow night too.

Lasell Dean’s List

Kris McCabe of Kingston, N.Y. and Edgartown was named to the dean’s list at Lasell College in Newton for the fall semester. A senior, he is majoring in secondary English education. He also was this year’s captain on the men’s college cross country team. He is the son of Brian McCabe and Kristi Jo Weber-McCabe of Kingston, N.Y., and Edgartown.

Hello, Filip

Nadia Turanska-Alberghini and Garrett Alberghini of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a second son, Filip Alois Alberghini, born on April 14, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Filip weighed 7 pounds, 2.8 ounces at birth. He is welcomed by big brother Adrian Alberghini.

Falmouth Academy Standouts

David C. Faus, headmaster of Falmouth Academy, announced that nine Vineyard students were named to the academy headmaster’s list for the second trimester. They are: seniors Emelia Armstead of Edgartown and Kinsman Maynard of Chilmark; eighth graders Caley Bennett, Alec Cobban and Quinn Cobban of Edgartown, Eli Hanschka of Vineyard Haven and Aidan Huntington of West Tisbury; and seventh graders Zachary Bresnick and Nathan D’Angelo of West Tisbury.

Collegiate Scholar

Brianna Buchanan of Vineyard Haven has been nominated for membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She is a freshman at Northern Arizona University.

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kathleencase@comcast.net)

I think Mother Nature is confused. This is April so we have showers, but the wind should have been last month. But when the wind does not blow the weather is warm and the sunshine is welcome.

As Farm Institute manager Julie Olson backed up her trailer full of pigs at Adams Farm in Athol, there was little indication she was outside of a slaughterhouse. The vista over the factory town is vast, animals patiently wait in their stalls in the large red barn and the smell of livestock is no different than on the plains of Katama.