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She is the only one left.
The Charles W. Morgan is the last surviving wooden whale ship, and while she has rested at a shipyard in Mystic, Conn. since 1941, her Vineyard ties are long and as intricate as a clove hitch knot.
Built at a New Bedford shipyard that was owned by a Chilmark family, her first captain and many of the crew were from the Vineyard.
And now a Vineyarder is leading the fund-raising effort to restore the Charles W. Morgan.
Growing up in a liberal community outside of Washington, D.C., Cindy Kane began her artistic life as a drawer. “I always had my hand on a pen,” she said. She is now a painter, but said aspects of her early art are still present in her work today. “My art has always been narrative, never abstract,” she said. “I’ve always been a storyteller in my paintings.”
Plein Air Registration
Register now to take part in the third annual Open Call Vineyard Plein Air Painter’s Show. Forms are available from noon to 7 p.m. daily at the Dragonfly Gallery on Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs. The fee to enter is $30 and the deadline to register is Sept. 6. Show opens Sept. 20 to Oct. 6. For details, call Marjorie Mason at 508-645-7965 or e-mail [email protected].
Experts are mystified by the bloom of an unknown type of algae this summer on the Edgartown Great Pond that has covered acres of the pond’s surface, choking out light to eelgrass beds and then sinking onto shellfish beds.
A sample of the algae was sent this week to the Smithsonian Institution after attempts to positively identify it through records at the Polly Hill Arboretum and through the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution were inconclusive.
When it comes to divining the will of the people, it is hard to think of anything simpler than the latest method employed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for gathering opinions on future development on the Island.
Beans and coffee jars at the Agricultural Fair. If you wanted no more development, you put a bean in one jar, if you wanted a little, you put a bean in another jar, and so on.
With so much attention focused on global warming and surging gas prices, interest in windmills is now at an all-time high across the nation — and also here on the Vineyard.
But renewed interest in wind turbines has brought with it a number of planning and logistical concerns. Much like the pre-zoning era of the Vineyard when neighborhoods and roads were laid out with minimal planning, there is now growing concern that a lack of uniform regulations could result in backyard turbines popping up all over the Island with little regard to aesthetics or scenic vistas.