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Proud purple
Shifting shades
Of red
Hugging clean green leaves
Tucked in sandy bed
Pumped up
With summer sun
Just fresh
From rain
I kneel
To bend
And pluck
Fistfuls
And drift
Into that picker’s dream
Of jelly jars
And old time
Kitchen smells
That linger
On the edge
So precious
And so real
— Steve EwingTisbury selectmen Tuesday approved a common victualler’s license for Cafe Moxie, clearing the way for the long-awaited re-opening of the Main street restaurant.
It is the season of En Plein Air, even if you don’t paint. Fall on the Vineyard is an invitation to stroll, to meander, to lay down on the grass (less ticks now) and stare open mouthed at the trees swaying and clouds crawling by, while the sun provides a gentle caress rather than a 100-degree heat slap. Everywhere you look it is a bouquet of beauty which is why there are so many folks outside now, capturing it all on canvas, aka en plein air.
An untitled Larry David film for HBO will be filming on-Island this weekend. Location manager Mark Fitzgerald appeared before the Edgartown and Chilmark selectmen this week to get approval for filming this Saturday.
The United States Air Force Liberty Jazz Band is holding a free concert beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, at the Ocean Park bandstand. The musicians are part of the United States Air Force Band of Liberty from Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston.
The band has been performing for 25 years, paying homage to the big band sounds of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, along with modern composers such as Maria Schneider, Mike Crotty and Sandy Megas.
In the case of bad weather, the concert will take place at Dreamland, 9 Oak Bluffs avenue.
On Wednesday morning, the jungle of hop plants at the end of Hopps Farm Road in West Tisbury stood 20 feet high, well above Alan Northcott’s head.
Atop a ladder he sliced the string connecting the vine away from the bamboo trellis that the hop plant had climbed along. Down below he handed the vine to the friends, neighbors and brewers who had gathered to help him harvest the hops, soon to be incorporated into an Offshore Ale one-of-a-kind brew: Hopps Farm Road Pale Ale.
