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Friday, September 3, 2010

Ballerinas dance with their feet, balancing on pointe shoes with their limbs elongated to expose the intricate workings of muscles, or leaping across stage, leaving only a slight noise on the floor. But this week at the Vineyard Arts Project, they were dancing with their hands. Wrists became entangled, thumbs circled other digits, and knuckles discovered unexplored crevices.
» Full Story By Remy Tumin

Ten minutes outside of Paris is what Aquinnah archaeologist Duncan Caldwell calls a “phantasmagoric landscape” of gnarled rock outcroppings and crevasses. Within these chasms Mr. Caldwell has discovered ancient inscriptions and a novel interpretation of Paleolithic art.
» Full Story By Peter Brannen

Feature Stories from the Vineyard Gazette Archives

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Director Joann Green Breuer is a bit vague when it comes to describing the themes at work in her Vineyard Playhouse performance of the Brian Friel play Faith Healer. It’s not that she’s trying to be evasive, it’s just that the subject matter itself is sometimes vague, subjective and difficult to describe.
» Full Story By Megan Dooley

Friday, August 27, 2010

No good deed ever goes unpunished. And so, as Jules Feiffer told an overflow audience at the Katharine Cornell Theatre last Saturday night, after he wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, his Hollywood career stalled for a decade or more.
» Full Story By Mike Seccombe

This Saturday only a half-mile from Blue Heron Farm at the Grange Hall, comedian Scott Blakeman will be doling out policy advice for the President.
» Full Story By Peter Brannen

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Dukes County Deputy Sheriff’s all-star team had the lead for a short time, in the annual celebrity softball classic on Saturday afternoon in Veteran’s Memorial Park. But it was fleeting, and in the end they lost 20 to 23 before a scattering of fans.
» Full Story By Mark Alan Lovewell

Friday, August 20, 2010

On Friday, August 13, Sense of Wonder Creations held a celebration to honor the final day of this year’s summer camp and the program’s milestone 20th anniversary.
» Full Story By Julia Eger

It was the beginning of what would be a long day for the then-future president of the United States, Barack Obama. He’d finished up on the campaign trail about 1 a.m., then returned to his hotel to steal a few hours of sleep with Michelle, who had been busy campaigning separately from her husband. Now the two were gearing up for that day’s primary in New Hampshire. Their paths would diverge again that morning, but first there was a 20-minute bus ride, their only chance for some quiet time alone together. When they would have that chance again was anybody’s guess.
» Full Story By Megan Dooley

Thomas (TJ) Mello, 49, of Tisbury is a familiar Vineyard face. For 29 years he worked as a clerk for the Steamship Authority. He would check people in as they lined up to board the boat in Vineyard Haven, always offering a smile.
» Full Story By Mark Alan Lovewell

Nesting terns have for quite awhile been under pressure to find appropriate and safe nesting habitat on the beaches of New England. The coastal waterbird program at Mass Audubon and the Island’s management unit of The Trustees of Reservations both dedicate a lot of manhours and resources to the task of protecting tern colonies over the course of the breeding season, roughly from June until now.
» Full Story By Lanny Mcdowell

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

As 1,500 runners anxiously milled about the starting line on Middle Road Saturday Morning, West Tisbury selectman Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter brandished a streamer-topped car antenna, holding it up to the sky.
» Full Story By Peter Brannen

Friday, August 13, 2010

For four days this weekend, worshipping at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs will take a different form. The light that flows into the historic church will not only be illuminating people in the pews, but the ballerinas, hip-hop artists, modern and belly dancers worshipping the art of dance at the annual Built on Stilts festival.
» Full Story By Remy Tumin

Marjory Potts met Frances Perkins purely by accident. Buried in books at the Vineyard Haven Library, researching an article she was writing about another subject, she came across a biography of Ms. Perkins, and all but lost interest in the subject at hand.
» Full Story By Megan Dooley

While a certain Chicago politician comes ashore in a little over a week, an ambassador from that other great Chicago institution, its jazz scene, will have already made landfall; the legendary Ramsey Lewis performs at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center this Sunday.
» Full Story By Peter Brannen

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A beautiful weekend for sailing with brisk winds and fair weather was marred briefly on Sunday morning when the captain of a 12-metre sailboat was injured. Dennis Williams, the captain of the Victory 83, was transported to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital for treatment after he was hit in the head by the boom of another sailboat in a congested moment at the leeward mark at the start of a race.
» Full Story By Mark Alan Lovewell

Friday, August 6, 2010

It’s hard to believe that in their 25-plus years of existence local fiddling legends the Flying Elbows have never released an album. That is, until now: on Sunday, Nancy Jephcote will lead the Elbows in a release concert at the Grange Hall for their boisterous new album, Pokedelic.
» Full Story By Peter Brannen

Children making s’mores, picking strawberries and eating ice cream cones. Families sitting down to baskets of fried clams and sizzling burgers hot off the grill. Farmers’ market stalls brimming over with freshly-picked vegetables and fruits.
» Full Story By Ivy Ashe

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Sam is 47 years old and has been sober for a little over two years, the longest he’s been sober since the age of 10. Brad, 49, became addicted to amphetamines in high school and has been sober for the past two years. Jill was the first graduate from the Vineyard House and is now a nurse’s aid in Maine. These are a few of the life-changing stories that have come as a result of a patient’s time at Vineyard House, and all of these people credit the facility with saving their lives.
» Full Story By Remy Tumin

Friday, July 30, 2010

For those who may have forgotten, the paperback novel is a lightweight paper unit with words printed on actual (not virtual) pages. In the age of the e-book, it’s difficult to imagine that this simple concept was once a ground-breaking advancement in the world of literature. But 75 years ago, it was.
» Full Story By Megan Dooley

On August 3 Islanders have a rare opportunity to hear and see firsthand accounts of the atrocities of child homelessness and exploitation around the world — and what certain Vineyard people are doing about it.
» Full Story By Jonah Lipsky

World War II had just ended and a Jewish man was sitting in a café in Hamburg, Germany. The man told a waiter he would like a cup of coffee and the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi newspaper. The waiter explained to the man that he could have the coffee but the café didn’t sell that newspaper anymore. The next day the man returned and ordered a coffee and the newspaper with the same response from the waiter. The third day, the waiter lost his cool and said, “I told you, we don’t have the newspaper anymore!” The Jewish man said: “I know, I just love to hear you say it.
» Full Story By Remy Tumin

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

On a recent Friday morning, a group of Edgartown School students could be found in the back of the building, grossly immersed in studies. They had no books, no pencils, no teachers telling them to quiet down, only their hands for tools. The six students, all under the age of nine, were wildly excited to be back to school to pick from the beds of vegetables they had started during the school year.
» Full Story By Remy Tumin

Friday, July 23, 2010

Criticism comes from some unexpected places when you’re a playwright attempting to star in your own play. That much is true for New York playwright Sam Forman, whose play The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall opened in preview last night at the Vineyard Playhouse (official opening night is Saturday). He’s seen the central role of Henry played by others in the three years since the play was written, and he has heard the actors lodge lighthearted complaints about the challenges posed by the dialogue. But before now, he’s never experienced it firsthand.
» Full Story By Megan Dooley

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

History buffs and aviation enthusiasts alike gathered at the Katama Airfield in Edgartown on Saturday afternoon for a chance to see restored World War II airplanes in action. The planes — two trainer aircraft and a transport plane — were flown in as a spinoff event to the Those Who Serve exhibit at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
» Full Story By Ivy Ashe

Friday, July 16, 2010

Lois Greenfield is constantly challenging what’s in front of her. As a result, her photographs are beyond human perception. The eye can only observe so much, and it is Ms. Greenfield’s passion to unveil the potential of the impossible.
» Full Story By Remy Tumin