A fatal accident in downtown Vineyard Haven last Tuesday left a young mother dead, and her family and friends devastated; it also has badly distressed many Islanders who witnessed the sudden tragedy.
Services were held yesterday in Melrose for Dina DeCecca, the mother of two young children who died while bicycling with her family and friends from the ferry on State Road, when she fell under an 18-wheel tractor-trailer.
Three athletes left the Island Friday morning in their purple and white warm-up suits, high socks and caps, each in their numbered T-shirts, carrying their black sports bags, having trained since September for this day of competition.
Story will be fending for itself this summer on the stages of Martha’s Vineyard. Stripped like the economy (and because of it), this season promises something much more seductive than blockbuster pretense, jaw-dropping set design, or celebrity leads: a glimpse at the so-called creative process.
So, you all know about the giant Jack met up that beanstalk, right? But did you know that giant was the reason all those kids ended up in that old woman’s shoe? Here’s how the children themselves explain it, in song:
“The giant, big and mean and mad, made himself a snack of our moms and dads; now they’re gone and deep inside his belly, and we’re in his shoe all wet and smelly.”
It’s an NCAA Division I team that has won has five championships in eight years — that’s better than Ohio State University’s Rose Bowl record. This team has one of the finest training facilities in the country, with expansive practice fields, personal trainers and individual tutors. Reigning national title holders, the team recruits only eight elite student athletes a year.
Each week, Menemsha summer couple Paula Lyons and Arnie Reisman join colleagues in a raucous radio game show of wordplay, taking questions such as, What’s an anagram for “Armed Possibles” and “A Slob Impressed?”
The answer is Possible Dreams, and this year the couple will bring their repartee to the podium as emcees of the 32nd annual celebrity auction for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services on August 2.
