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Judy Hartford, owner of Red Mannequin Boutique and Bananas, and Stina Sayre, owner of Stina Sayre Design — both board members of the Friends of Family Planning of Martha’s Vineyard — are taking their convictions to their cash registers.
Funhunters Scavenger Hunt has teamed up with the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks to make America’s favorite pastime pass by even more enjoyably.
John W. Larsen and Venuta M. Carulli announce the birth of their son, Kai Mangan Larsen, on July 2 at the Family Health and Birth Center in Northeast Washington, D.C. Kai weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces and was 21 inches long at birth.
The first Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair was held on October 26, 1858: it was announced on September 15 of that year. And thus began a pilgrimage that would be unfamiliar in nature though familiar in spirit to modern-day fairgoers: 1,800 people made their way to the Grange Hall in West Tisbury by horseback, in wagons or on foot.
The Vineyard Gazette is being distributed free across the Island this week as part of an annual effort to encourage new subscribers. The full issue is also available for free online. For a limited time offer, you can subscribe — or renew your subscription — for two years, and get your choice of two new books about the Vineyard, To the Harbor Light: Lighthouses of Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod or Bountiful: A History of the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society and Livestock Show and Fair.
Washashore Art
One clever way to clean up a beach is to collect trash and turn it into art. That’s what artist and art teacher Wendy Shalen did, using found floating debris from beaches on the Vineyard, Long Island and Florida as subject matter for her handmade paper seascapes. The series is called Washed Ashore, and was recently exhibited at the Pound Ridge Library in New York.
The images show the closeness of nature and material culture. Garbage can be collected on some beaches as easily as drift wood.