Opinion
On Saturday night, Nina Violet celebrated the release of her new CD, We’ll Be Alright, at the Pit Stop on Duke’s County avenue in Oak Bluffs. Catty-corner to Tony’s, in the town’s Arts District, the place has been a garage, a jazz joint, a consignment shop for art, a recording studio and more, so it has a homey industrial feel to it — a spot for getting all kinds of creative things done. It’s owned by Nina’s father, Don Muckerheide, who hosted the celebration.
The first itinerant preacher to travel as far as Chilmark was the Rev. Joshua Hall, in 1797. A small Methodist “class” was formed and continued to meet in the home of Capt. Francis Tilton, until 1827 when the old Methodist meetinghouse in Edgartown was purchased and subsequently moved piece by piece to the intersection of Middle Road and Meetinghouse Road, which was then the center of town. Sometime in 1843 the sanctuary was replaced and the church moved across the road.
House Rules
No one gets it right all the time, including this newspaper. We heard from several readers who thought the Gazette editorial last week unfairly suggested that our towns already have sufficient tools to regulate so-called megamansions and simply have not been tough enough. Not so, they said.
Juniper
juniperus communis
called jenever by the Dutch
green and young, female seed cone
a fleshy berry used in gin
another life when you mature
piney and resinous
your berries beautiful blue
for seasoning, aromatherapy, medicine
native tribes chewed you to ward off hunger
your seeds become beads
Navajo necklaces for protection
I cut boughs from your strong trunk
like the ancients I bring you inside
Seminars Revival
It was the Vineyard’s first and only institution of higher learning, founded by three retired Island academics in 1974. Their idea was to create a small liberal arts college centered around a tall old house on North William street in Vineyard Haven. The first full academic year was in 1975.
From Gazette editions of December 1961:
Mrs. Mary Guerin, proprietor of the Mary Guerin Inn on the Beach Road at Eastville, has sold the inn property to Henry Cronig of Vineyard Haven