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The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival opens its 2008 season on Thursday, July 24 at 8 p.m. with a performance by the Jupiter String Quartet. The concert will be held at the Chappaquiddick Community Center.
Called by the New York Sun “one of the strongest young string quartets in the country,” the quartet includes violinists Nelson Lee and Megan Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel, and cellist Daniel McDonough.
Store Battles Cancer
A month after the launch of the Triple Winner Game, Stop & Shop’s annual campaign to raise funds toward research and treatment of pediatric cancer, the company’s Vineyard Haven store has raised $4,144 toward the effort. The chain so far has collected $1.4 million in this year’s campaign.
Tim Laursen, who writes the majority of the lyrics for The Billionaires, looks through his screen porch out at the woodland behind his family’s Vineyard Haven home, and tries to explain his song-writing method.
“Okay, popping into my head right now, wood,” he says, humming a tune and then seamlessly cranking out a lyric: “Must be romantic cutting wood by hand/Put down the power tools and give me back the land.”
These were the top finishers in the 85th Annual Regatta of the Edgartown Yacht Club, held from July 10 through 12.
Wianno Senior Division (21 boats)
1, Cochenoe, Donald Law; 2, Yankee Dime, Frank Saul; 3, Cheerful, Lloyd B. McManus Jr.; 4, Heritage, John Fallon; 5, Aurora, Holly Edmonds; 6, Dauntless, Jeff Tracy; 7, Lente Festina, Kevin Plunkett; 8, Golden Summer, W. Patrick Lentell; 9, Rapparee, Peter O’Keeffe; 10, Odin, Andrew Dunne 4th.
Shields Division (9 boats)
A Vineyard sailor in one of the smallest boats was among the winners of Saturday’s ’Round the Island Race.
Roger Becker, in a bright red 24-foot sailboat called Gloria, was one of four first-place winners. The race was part of this past weekend’s 85th annual Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta.
Thirty-seven sailboats participated in this year’s ’Round the Island contest. It truly was challenging because of the lack of enough wind.
The third annual Vineyard Cup, one of the Island’s biggest sailing events, will take place this coming weekend.
At last count more than 60 boats have registered to sail in Nantucket Sound over the weekend, but the event begins Thursday morning with windsurfing in Vineyard Haven outer harbor.
The Cup starts with the two-day East Coast Junior Olympic Windsurfing Championships, which begin at 9 a.m. at the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club.