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Boulders, looking like the playthings of giants, are strewn over the rolling banks of South Road. Tumbling down from the walls, the rocks stand guard at this thoroughfare as they have done for hundreds of years, witnesses to all that has happened here, even as they shift with the changes in land and weather.
A newly-formed Island coalition is working on a possible deal to buy the former Thimble Farm property, take it out of private ownership and make it a nonprofit working farm with housing for farm workers.
Called the Martha’s Vineyard Farm Project, the group hopes to raise $2.5 million to buy the land and buildings at the farm in the Iron Hill area off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road that is home to Whippoorwill Farm, a large community-supported agriculture operation.
The picture of Martha’s Vineyard’s cinematic near future painted by Richard Paradise, the driving force behind the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society, is appealing.
On almost any given night, in season or out, Islanders could nip down to the Tisbury Marketplace for an intelligent film. A foreign language one, perhaps, or a documentary, or something art-housey, or maybe a classic.
The starting premise of Dr. George Woodwell’s presentation at Grace Church on Monday was bland enough. For civilization to thrive, he said, it requires both a political system and an economic system that work.
But from there, it got very scary, very fast. For, he continued, those systems were on the verge of breaking down — in some places had already broken down — because the world’s environment, on which they ultimately depend, was fast breaking down.
New clues surfaced this week to the mysterious series of on-again, off-again swimming closures at public beaches that have plagued the Vineyard, when the Edgartown health agent sent water samples to two different labs for testing — and saw different results.
The Steamship Authority has decided against closing its offsite booking office, at least for the foreseeable future, although it will relocate.
Tuesday’s July meeting of the SSA board of governors at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven was told the boat line would advertise this week for new premises and already has had preliminary discussions with management at the airport about moving there.