Julia Rappaport
It is Sunday morning and Bob Carroll and Eugene (Geno) Courtney are sitting in Mr. Carroll’s penthouse apartment at the top of the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown.
The Fourth of July may not hit for another few days, but the heat already has been turned on in the kitchen.
The 10th annual Independence Day barbecue is set to start at 4 p.m. on the lawn of the Dr. Daniel Fisher House in Edgartown.
The evening easily could have been confused with a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The grill staff at P.J.'s Café sang along to Love Train and Don't Stop Believin' as they flipped mini burgers, pressed them in between golden buns and handed them off to hungry, fashionably clad patrons. Across the way, the pastry chef at Soigne wore a wide smile as she piled a cake rack high with mini cupcakes. "I noticed some of the restaurant people dancing in their booths," Christopher Scott, executive director of the Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust said yesterday.
Following the discovery of a defective engine part, Cape Air grounded its entire fleet of Cessna 402 planes this week, disrupting travel plans for thousands of passengers and costing the respected commuter airline hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
No single word describes this class.
On Sunday at 1:30 p.m., the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School 2007 graduates will march down the aisles of the historic Oak Bluffs Tabernacle wearing caps and gowns in purple and white. The athletes will walk alongside the actors; the musicians will march side by side with fellow student government leaders. If there had to be just one word to describe the group, it would be well-rounded.
This past Saturday, the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School held its seventh high school graduation. Seven students graduated in the year 2007.
"We were going to do it on July seventh," said Sam Berlow, president of the school's board of trustees, "but we decided that was too much."