Even though the heavens opened up and poured soaking rain, complete with thunder and lightning, hospice angels were plentiful on a recent Monday night at Farm Neck. I would like to say thank you to every guest, volunteer and to all the businesses and artists that made the evening such a wonderful success. It truly takes a community to give the excellent care of hospice, and those who were with us under the tent know the very special connection to our work we all made that stormy night.

SPEAK OUT

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The Lash house has come down. It took Roger Allen six months to build but just two days for one man and a big John Deere excavator to demolish. And now only the sentinel chimney remains, but soon enough it too will be gone, tumbled down in a cloud of dust.

Island Plan for the Future

How much and how should the Vineyard grow?

This is the question that has been posed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and will be addressed tomorrow night at a public forum at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury, marking the second to last in a series of community discussions that have been held throughout the summer as part of the Island Plan, a fifty-year comprehensive plan for the Island.

Moving to Maine

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of 1933:

Who on Martha’s Vineyard has paid a visit to New Vineyard, Maine? Who, among the many thousands journeying to the Island every year and taking an interest in its scene, its history and its people, knows that there is a place named New Vineyard and that it was settled by emigrants from the Island long ago and named in honor of Martha’s Vineyard?

E.B. Collins: 1925-2008

He was a consummate gentleman, a man firm in his beliefs, soft spoken in expression, sensitive to the views of others and deeply committed to the vital interests of the Vineyard. The death of E.B. Collins last Sunday recalls a period of political civility in a time of rising contention at the Steamship Authority.