Mark Alan Lovewell
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
Gallery owners are talented. Like the artists whose work they show, they hold their craft within and they can take it to new and different places. Carol Craven is one such talented gallery owner. For 15 years she has built a well-deserved reputation, thanks to her keen eye for landscapes, portraits and even cartoons. Her gallery has had three different locations, and the newest one is a perfect fit.
There is a centennial house on East Chop, and last week the owners put on an afternoon birthday party for the old girl. Robert S. Blacklow and his wife Winifred (Wini) dressed up for the occasion; the house was dressed up too.
The house at 143 Munroe avenue looked the part. Set back from East Chop Drive, the old summer bungalow has a wide porch furnished with classic wicker furniture. Inside there is more period furniture and a huge fireplace.
Like David against Goliath, the Martha’s Vineyard/Dukes County Fishermen’s Association and a well-known Menemsha draggerman last week filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, claiming that the giant wind farm planned by Cape Wind Associates for Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound threatens to put Island fishermen who work the shoal, including squidders and conchers, out of business for good.
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
Frank Foltz, the owner of Sundog, a men’s clothing store in Edgartown, hasn’t been around much. Instead of greeting his customers at the store, the active 77-year-old entrepreneur has been spending his time up in Jones Falls, Ontario, running a recently acquired 133-year-old historic hotel.
The Hotel Kenney, which comprises a number of buildings and even a small concert hall and docks, is being revitalized as one of the community’s top attractions.
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
In an incomplete building behind the Edgartown Fire Station on Pease’s Point Way, they talk fire. Not recent fires. This talk is about history and a growing group of firemen’s enthusiasm for preserving that history. It’s been burning in the department for years — to the point where they are building a new fire museum.
The 21-foot wooden catboat Vanity has been crisscrossing the Edgartown Harbor in the last several weeks, the start of what will be a busy summer. Vanity is one of the most storied catboats on the Atlantic seaboard, and one of the last of the working wooden catboats to have survived changing times.
And she was built in Edgartown.
At 81, Vanity is a living story of the region’s connection to fishing and maritime commerce.