Monthly Archives: September 2024
‘Ghosts help us live’
Élise Girard’s “Sidonie in Japan” is playing at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center. Sidonie, played by the beautiful, vulnerable, and elusive Isabelle Huppert, is...
Let’s go fly a kite
On Saturday, Sept. 7, from 12 pm to dusk, enjoy spending time with friends and family in beautiful Ocean Park. There will be free...
Can you dig it?
Head over to Katama Landing, and learn techniques for harvesting shellfish from the constables of the Edgartown shellfish department. You do not need a...
Book arts
Have fun creating six different accordion (concertina) books that are cut and folded from single sheets of watercolor paper. Sometimes called meander books, flip-flop...
Immigration officials arrest Brazilian national on rape charges
A 24-year-old Brazilian national charged with five counts of raping a Massachusetts minor has been apprehended by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston in...
In gratitude
Bodhi Path Buddhist Center in West Tisbury is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Bodhi Path is an international organization of Buddhist centers that was founded...
What’s in your backyard?
BiodiversityWorks, founded by wildlife biologist Luanne Johnson, is an organization whose mission is to promote conservation through wildlife research and monitoring, and to provide...
Mystery and history
Marian Pierre-Louis is a sleuth — or, more precisely, a house historian. She has been doing this sort of deep research into the history...
On My Way: Happy trails
Smiles poured over us. We had made the top. After a 3½-day road trip, countless miles on I-80 through America’s vast and endless cornfields,...
Writing from the Heart: Steak out
I have always wanted to be a vegetarian.
Not one of those rigid, announcing at a dinner party “oh no thank you I don't eat...
Wild Side: On the hunt
On the long list of insects I’d like to see, one species near the top is the Northern mole cricket, Neocurtilla hexadactyla. The only...
Climate Connections: Planting local
I am a big fan of this quote by 18th century philosopher Edmund Burke: “Never, no never, did nature say one thing, and wisdom...
Coming up at the West Tisbury library
On Saturday, Sept. 7, at 9:30 am, join Claire Page for “Moving Stories,” a children’s creative dance class to explore, develop, and grow into...
Tisbury
Heard on Main Street: Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.
There is something so special about the first day of school. But...
Oak Bluffs
“Listen to the hummingbird, whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don’t listen to me.” —Leonard Cohen
I have been trying to keep...
Edgartown
And just like that, the last of the summer hoorahs has come to a close. With August behind us and September swooping in, we...
Chilmark
Welcome, September, and Ann Raymond, the new outreach coordinator for the Up-Island Council on Aging.
Thank you, Sig Van Raan, for covering the summer 2024...
Aquinnah
Before I left for California, I had a grand time with the community in Aquinnah. First, there was a crowded elder’s luncheon at the...
Poet’s Corner: so this happened
so this happened
By Michael Oliveira
first light rain of acorns
knocked on the forest floor
summoned summer forward
towards autumn's yet unopened door
cold umber light spread
as the sea...
Cribbage Club results
Eighteen members and guests of the Vineyard Cribbage Club met last night to play our favorite game. The results were as follows:
First, Bill Russell...