Commentary
In going through some old stuff recently, I found this information about James Naismith and how he invented basketball. He was also a student at the Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute. Mr. Naismith put the first game of basketball in play at Springfield College. Did the summer school on the Vineyard inspire him to finally invent the game of basketball? Could it have been the lovely salt air or watching the seagulls scoring with their shells from the air without any interference? (Mr.
So a Hollywood production company, 25/7 (would you want to work for an outfit that thinks there’s an extra hour in each day?), plans to shoot what they’re calling a docu-soap on Martha’s Vineyard. It will be aired on CW TV which already runs 90210, America’s Next Top Model, and Gossip Girl, so you see where they’re going here.
A new fishermen’s organization formed on the Island in the last month: the Martha’s Vineyard/Dukes County Fishermen’s Association. The group has arisen at a time when commercial fishing is at its worst, when fewer Vineyards call themselves commercial fishermen than ever before.
I went to New Orleans because my daughter Jill has a house in the city and teaches third grade at Langston Hughes Charter School. Her students had spent the previous two years in Houston, exiled by the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Now Jill is doing her part to bring the city back from that devastating storm. It was a good time to visit with her.
Cast Your Ballots!
From the Gazette editions of March, 1909:
For every disaster, there is a survivor and I am he,” declares Matt Flynn, stepping towards the three spirits listening as he speaks the ancient words of Tuan McCarrill. This is the Irish Creation story, and Matt is playing the part of Tuan, the shapeshifter who witnesses each race of invaders as they conquer and then lose the land of Ireland.