By Lynne Irons>
Roger Spinney shared a wonderful concept with the Baptists last week. The word humility comes from the Greek for humus. Talk about being grounded. What better way than to get our hands into some soil.
75 Years Ago
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March, 1932:
RICK HERRICK
508-693-8065
Hurricane Noel — I guess you can call it a hurricane — recorded gusts of 72 miles an hour at the house when it hit East Chop on Saturday.
It was an interesting time to be here. I learned two lessons.
First, there is a difference between winds of twenty and winds of sixty miles an hour. At sixty, our little house shook, and there were white caps in the toilet. The grandfather clock changed its tune, and chimed according to the rhythm of the storm.
Margaret Knight>
508 627-8894
Norton Point was the place to be on Chappaquiddick this past Sunday. It was a beautiful peaceful day after the wild windy storm on Saturday and when Sidney and I walked out to check on the breach, we saw about 15 other Chappaquiddickers out there, plus a bunch of dogs.
HOLLY NADLER
508-693-3880
Unlike James Bond’s martinis, we were shaken and stirred during the storm last weekend. At times the views out our windows of thrashing trees looked like the hurricane videos we see of anchormen in rain slickers standing against wet and contorting palms. Do you ever wonder if the guy is really on the scene? Or is he being taped in a studio with generic storm footage blue-screened behind him, with perhaps a techie suspended from an overhead grid hosing him down?
Flu Clinic on Monday
An all-Island flu immunization clinic will be on Monday, Nov. 12 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School gymnasium. People 50 or older, anyone who has a chronic medical condition, pregnant women, health-care workers or first responders with direct patient contact should attend.
A thin crescent moon appears low in the southwestern sky on Monday evening, under the bright planet Jupiter. Both celestial objects are in the zodiacal Scorpius. The two will look nice amid the light of twilight.
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
Nov. 2 68 47 .00
Nov. 3 63 45 .28
Nov. 4 51 41 2.48
Nov. 5 57 37 .00
Nov. 6 59 40 .00
Nov. 7 63 35 .26
Nov. 8 52 36 .00
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 53º F.
It is a great story, one that has everything: conceit, vanity, envy, brutality, monsters, and family deception. There is a bright side, though, and for some characters in the story, a happy, fairy-tale ending.
The bright side is the luminous shine of the stars. It is these stars that make up the constellations of a royal family that inhabit the fall night sky and give us this epic drama.
