Mark Alan Lovewell
There is no store where you can order parts for the Flying Horses, the oldest operating carousel in the United States. So in Mike (Panhead) Fuss’s motorcycle workshop in Vineyard Haven, a space almost hidden from view at the end of a dead-end lane, where parked motorcycles announce his business better than the Offshore Cycle signs, 132-year-old cast iron parts sit on a bench. Small chips of bronze and steel are on the floor. The air smells of cutting oil. A shiny gold-colored cylinder spins on a lathe. Moving his fingers delicately on the crank, Mr.
Tomorrow’s 24th annual great chowder contest is about more than a good cup of steaming, milky soup brimming with clams and potatoes. The contest raises money for The Red Stocking Fund.
The event begins at noon tomorrow at the Edgartown Mini Park.
The committee that organizes the event is still deliberating about whether to raise the entry fee above last year’s $5. At press time there still had been no decision.
Brad Fligor is a captain who steers the three-car ferry that plies the narrow channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick.
He has never considered himself a national security risk.
But under a new set of little-known Homeland Security regulations passed by Congress, Mr. Fligor has had to go through a rigorous background check to acquire an identification card from the federal government. The card, the size of a credit card, is called a Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC for short.
The project to restore Bend in the Road Beach with dredge spoils from Sengekontacket is now complete. Charlie Blair, town harbor master and overseer of the $200,000 project, said this week that the 10,000 cubic yard project was completed under budget and on time. Next spring the beach, which is well piled with soft sand sucked from the bottom of the pond, will be shaped and planted with beach grass.
The project began in mid-October and involved more than a mile of plastic dredge pipe that ran from a sandbar near the Big Bridge known as the burrow.
Sunday marks the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Noel C. Orcutt, 79, of Edgartown was there. He was 12 years old and he witnessed the events of Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 up close. He saw aircraft flying overhead. He watched Pearl Harbor and the fleet ablaze at night.
He remembers going off to elementary school two days earlier on an army transport truck. He and his family lived at Schofield Barracks, a few miles away from Pearl Harbor.
Today is fall festival, a traditional celebration at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown. Every year since 1980, the sanctuary has held a day-after Thanksgiving event which brings together strangers and friends, young and old to sip hot cider and participate in an array of family-friendly activities.
While other people are busy shopping and scurrying about with holiday errands, at Felix Neck there is a different kind of tradition for those who want to get outdoors and work off some of that turkey dinner.