A year ago, a group of students of Brazilian ethnicity decided that they wanted to educate the school about Brazilian culture. Through hard work, charm and community support they created the first-ever Brazilian awareness day at the regional high school.
Brazilian community
2011
2010
December 16, 2010
Can you guess the two biggest countries in the Western Hemisphere that were born around the same time, colonized by Europeans, share a history of slavery and indigenous people, and are both democracies? Here’s a hint: the largest community abroad of one of these countries lives here in New England.
Brazil and the United States may have more in common than you thought.
June 10, 2010
The mood was buoyant Wednesday night, as a small group of high school students gathered with friends to share a meal and conversation. Handshakes and hugs passed as greetings at the door, and when everyone had settled, one student pulled a long piece of cloth from her belongings.
June 7, 2010
In a last-minute reversal of principal Stephen Nixon’s recent decision regarding appropriate graduation wear, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee voted last night to allow seniors, Brazilian and otherwise, to wear personalized scarves over their graduation gowns.
The vote followed an impassioned speech from former high school student and recent Emory University graduate Alex Parker.
2009
September 3, 2009
Lyndon Johnson Pereira is all but forgotten. Just a handful of the Island’s some 3,000 Brazilian residents have heard of him. Other pioneering Brazilians who came in the late 1980s and early 1990s are now Island personalities, including Elio Silva, owner of the Tisbury Farm Market and other stores, and Paco Santana, a painter.
