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Center for Living Benefit
On Tuesday, Sept. 13, Flatbread Pizza is hosting a benefit for the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living. What this means is that from 5 to 10 p.m. on that day and evening, $3.50 of every pizza sold will be donated to the center.
CROP Walk Advance
An advance planning meeting for the Vineyard CROP Walk will be held on Saturday, Sept. 10, at 5 p.m. at Grace Church in Vineyard Haven. The speaker will be the Rev. Bert Marshall, New England Director of Church World Service.
Alden Besse to Preach
Trinity Episcopal Church in Oak Bluffs welcomes the Reverend Alden Besse as preacher and celebrant this Sunday, Sept. 11.
Rev. Besse retired to the Vineyard in 1990 from his parish in Whitinsville. For fifteen years he served as Pastoral Assistant at Grace Church in Vineyard Haven. For many years Rev. Besse has been active with the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council, as chairman and now as co-chair. He is also well known on the island for his long-time participation in the annual CROP Walk.
From Maine to You, With Sauce
Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard is hosting a community potluck at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury on Thursday, Sept. 15, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker is Kathy Gunst, Maine cookbook author and “resident chef” for WBUR’s award-winning show, Here and Now. Her radio work has received two James Beard award nominations.
Nursing the Heart
The Royal Falmouth Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Royal Megansett Nursing and Retirement Home in North Falmouth are among the centers that have purchased newly FDA-approved fluid monitors to help patients with heart, kidney and other fluid-related health issues.
Both are part of the Royal Health Group, owner of six skilled nursing facilities south of Boston
He was a soldier, reaching the rank of major general, and a humanitarian. He was captured by a group of Confederate partisans that included his future brother in law. His career included the battles of Antietam, Chickamauga and the Geronimo campaign during the Apache Wars. Yet George Crook’s story has remained mostly untold until now.
This month, after 11 years researching and writing, Paul Magid has published the first of a two-volume biography of the general, called George Crook: From the Redwoods to Appomattox (University of Oklahoma Press, $39.95).