Changing Routes for Tour Buses Hurt Shops at Aquinnah Cliffs
By KATE BRANNEN
There is only one listing under Tourist Attractions in the Vineyard
Yellow Pages. It's the Gay Head Lighthouse at 9 Aquinnah Circle.
Despite its status as one of the Island's most breathtaking views,
fewer tourists than usual will see it this summer due to a change in
tour bus routes.
The Edgartown School is set to have a new principal by the end of
the week, Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss said
yesterday.
Mr. Weiss and the school committee will decide between two finalists
selected from a pool of five semi-finalists who were interviewed last
week.
The finalists are Richard Hamasian, an assistant principal in
Connecticut, and John Stevens, a principal in Florida.
The first of the long-awaited studies of the health of Vineyard
ponds by the Massachusetts Estuaries Project is set to be released
within weeks and will recommend significant changes to the management of
the Edgartown Great Pond.
Plan to Refurbish Beach Stirs Emotion
By JEANNIE VANASCO
Thomas Wirth unrolled a map mounted on two poles and planted them in
the sand on Inkwell beach in Oak Bluffs last Thursday morning. Mr.
Wirth, who worked as the landscape architect for the PBS programs This
Old House and Victory Garden for 20 years, has drafted a design concept
for this section of waterfront, in conjunction with the Oak Bluffs
Boardwalk to Beach Task Force.
Plan to Refurbish Beach Stirs Emotion
By JEANNIE VANASCO
Thomas Wirth unrolled a map mounted on two poles and planted them in
the sand on Inkwell beach in Oak Bluffs last Thursday morning. Mr.
Wirth, who worked as the landscape architect for the PBS programs This
Old House and Victory Garden for 20 years, has drafted a design concept
for this section of waterfront, in conjunction with the Oak Bluffs
Boardwalk to Beach Task Force.
Plan to Refurbish Beach Stirs Emotion
By JEANNIE VANASCO
Thomas Wirth unrolled a map mounted on two poles and planted them in
the sand on Inkwell beach in Oak Bluffs last Thursday morning. Mr.
Wirth, who worked as the landscape architect for the PBS programs This
Old House and Victory Garden for 20 years, has drafted a design concept
for this section of waterfront, in conjunction with the Oak Bluffs
Boardwalk to Beach Task Force.
Shark Protection Rules Announced
Annual Tournament Held in Oak Bluffs Without Incident
By JACK SHEA
Trumping a 536-pound winning shark is difficult but the biggest news
out of the 21st Monster Shark Tournament weekend for marine biologists,
conservationists and fishermen is that the federal government is
stepping up to protect several species of overfished sharks.
People said it would never work. But people were wrong. Vineyard
Haven boat builders Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin have a partnership that
has survived 30 years, including a devastating fire that left them with
nothing but the will to start over again. Today Gannon and Benjamin is a
household name on the Vineyard, synonymous with wooden boats and Island
values.
Interviews by Rachel Nava Rohr
Ross Gannon:
Is there a gene for how you play a D chord on a guitar?
Ben Taylor jokes that his father reckons there is, for Ben forms the
chord in exactly the same unorthodox way James does. Ben says it's
just that as a self-taught player, he copied the moves of the musician
he admires most - his dad.
The toes of Daniel Libeskind's black elkskin cowboy boots curl
up like those curved walls he so loves - spiralling curves that
cross a void of history in the Jewish Museum he designed in Berlin,
bathtub-like curves beckoning 75 feet down into bedrock in his master
plan for the Ground Zero memorial, a curve inspired by a shard of earth
to house exhibits in the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, England,
where even the floor curves six feet down.
