There are two kinds of Shakespeare fanatics: The first group is down with the concept of William Shakespeare having written all the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. The second group believes anyone but William Shakespeare wrote the canon of sonnets and plays: It could have been Will’s young patron, the third earl of Southampton, or the proven Christopher Marlowe, or even Queen Elizabeth I in a secret need to hone another dimension of her marvelousness.
About 24 years ago, a group of Vineyard gardeners with no place to garden began to brainstorm. The dilemma: how to have a working garden when life leaves little time or energy to do so? How to garden when the backyard is too small? And how to spread the gospel that food grown at home tastes better? The solution: provide a community garden.
A generation ago, Plum TV would have been impossible and the concept likely considered insane by conventional business thinking.
But in 2007 it’s working in eight markets, including on the Vineyard. Now five years old, Plum local stations on Nantucket and in Aspen are profitable “and the Vineyard is close,” founding partner Tom Scott said on Friday afternoon.
Carrie White Named Director of Support Services
In early September, Carrie White joined the staff of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services as director of the Women’s Support Services program.
Ms. White joins staff members Sally Callahan and Erika Dowling in providing domestic violence and rape crisis support services.
Habitat Seeks Volunteers
Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard has started another home in Vineyard Haven for a deserving family that already has been selected. The organization is seeking volunteers to help keep the building cost down to keep the price to the family as low as possible.
Construction days will be Fridays and Saturdays starting Sept. 28. Habitat is seeking experienced volunteers for the first weekend and maybe the second as the organization will be putting the cap on the foundation.
Watching the Fuel Gauge
At the Steamship Authority so much fuel is used to send ferries back and forth on their frequent schedule that even small changes in the price of oil can translate over time into significant savings, or expense.
To that end Falmouth governor Robert S. Marshall is right to sound a note of caution about where fuel prices may be heading in the coming year.
Boat line staff has forecast that oil will cost about seventy dollars per barrel in the current year, about ten dollars less than current prices.
Little Sundance in Vineyard Haven
For a few days this month, Islanders were encouraged to collectively dream in the dark. Many hundreds took up the invitation of the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival, which clearly has big dreams of its own.
SAVE THE FARM
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Coming back to the Vineyard after a few days on the Cape, I realized that one of the things to which I was most looking forward was picking up our Community Supported Agriculture farm share tomorrow.
By Art Railton, from his ‘Just a Thought’ columns, as published in the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1991:
I’m a television weather buff, a compulsive channel switcher, trying to find out for sure what tomorrow’s weather will be. I just can’t get enough of those satellite shots. And no wonder. After 20 minutes of fires in a Pawtucket three-decker, or a car wrapped around a tree in Kingston, or a half-dozen Boston detectives gloating over a $1 million drug haul, I relish something cheerful.
Good morning to all our readers near and far. Today marks the last Tuesday edition until June of next year. Thanks for being with us, and of course remember the Gazette on Fridays!
