Community
An Island tradition for more than 100 years, the Neighborhood Convention will gather at the First Baptist Church in Vineyard Haven on Tuesday, Nov. 5, beginning at 11 a.m.
The sixth annual Domestic Violence Awareness Walk is on Saturday, Oct. 26 with registration beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Edgartown Park and Ride.
Margot Schwarz Weston is the recipient of this year’s Spirit of the Vineyard Award. Mrs. Weston, 99, first came to the Vineyard at the age of eight. She currently serves at the nonprofit small business organization SCORE, as a volunteer at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum and with ACE MV. Mrs. Weston has a 1,000-hour pin from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. All this adds up to a lifetime of service to the community, and in celebration she will be presented with the award at a ceremony on Saturday, Nov.
With Rez Williams’s paintings hanging on the walls of the Grange Hall Monday, artist Ruth Kirchmeier recalled one of his art exhibits at the former Nye Gallery. His signature boat paintings were placed on dark walls and lit from above, she said. “One felt surrounded by looming giants of every color and description, with skies that were more vivid than and unlike any sky a mere mortal might experience. Fighting with the sky for attention was the equally mesmerizing water. It was glorious.”
It’s 5 a.m., pitch black outside on a cool, clear October Friday morning. Tony H. Rezendes Jr. is cruising through the woods, first by truck on a track that barely qualifies as a road, then by foot on a rough path, to one of his favorite fishing spots.
The history of Seven Gates Farm goes back to 1887, and for generations a parade of farmers, shareholders and conservationists have done just about all they could to keep the land and buildings of this enclave looking, working and feeling largely unchanged.