Graduates With Honors
Anna Walton graduated from Smith College on May 18 with a bachelor of arts degree in education. She received magna cum laude honors and was also inducted into the Zeta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In the fall, she will pursue a master of arts in teaching.
She is the daughter of Richard and Carole Walton of Oak Bluffs.
Mary McConneloug, the Vineyard’s own Olympian who competed in the Beijing games last week, finished seventh in the women’s mountain bike cross-country course. The highest-ranked cross-country mountain biker in the nation and one of two women on the American team, Ms. McConnelaug was the top American finisher in her event, with a final time of 1:50:34 for a six-lap, 26.7-kilometer (16.6-mile) course. The cross-country race was Saturday. Sabine Spitz of Germany took first, with a time of 1:45:11. Ms. McConneloug, who is 37, lives in Chilmark with Michael Broderick.
Island Plan for the Future
How much and how should the Vineyard grow?
This is the question that has been posed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and will be addressed tomorrow night at a public forum at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury, marking the second to last in a series of community discussions that have been held throughout the summer as part of the Island Plan, a fifty-year comprehensive plan for the Island.
The Lash house has come down. It took Roger Allen six months to build but just two days for one man and a big John Deere excavator to demolish. And now only the sentinel chimney remains, but soon enough it too will be gone, tumbled down in a cloud of dust.
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
Vineyard artist Cindy Kane will discuss her new internationally traveling exhibition — which combines art and journalism in a unique installation — in a free talk Thursday, August 28 at 5:00 p.m. at the Aquinnah library.
Africa’s Own
Founder and director of the organization Africa’s Own, Nathaniel Scott, and Aduei Riak, a refugee from Sudan’s civil war, will give a free talk on Thursday, August 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
Ms. Riak has finished her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University, worked for a year as a paralegal and is now working on a large school construction project back in Sudan.
Africa’s Own is raising funds to help her, and other Africans, with their own development projects.
Ethan Stiefel, world-renowned ballet dancer and star of the film Center Stage, and his professional ensemble Stiefel & Stars, perform on Island in their annual one-night-only benefit for Vineyard Arts Project at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center.
The show will be held on Wednesday, August 27, at 6 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center at the high school. Tickets are available at $35, $65, $95 and $125 and may be purchased online at vineyardartsproject.org or by calling 508-413-2104.
Robert Jones had the daunting task of settling the estate of the renowned African-American artist Lois Mailou Jones after she died in 1998 at the age of 93. Imagine his amazement at rooting around in the basement of his cousin’s Washington, D.C. home and uncovering a cobweb-draped box that contained a collection of masterpiece textile designs Ms. Jones had created 75 years before.
