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Think you know the Vineyard? This spring you will have the opportunity to test that knowledge with How Green is Your Vineyard? A board game that will include up to 1,800 questions in six categories: conservation, agriculture, history, commerce, arts and culture and odds and ends.
Businesses and organizations can participate by purchasing a space on the board and contributing questions to the game.
As the moon rose over Sengekontacket Pond on Sunday night, Felix Neck education coordinator Cristina Pereira led a small group of adults through the trails of the sanctuary. The next day, Ms. Pereira guided a group of high school students for their morning lesson about otter scat remains.
But no matter who Ms. Pereira or other educators at Felix Neck are working with, the goal remains the same: to encourage Islanders to engage with their natural habitat.
Oak Bluffs received its new $250,000 ambulance last Saturday, and the personnel involved with the ambulance service would like to share it with the Island community at a breakfast open house on Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon.
The free pancake breakfast is aimed at raising the public awareness about what EMTs and paramedics can do in an ambulance run.
Chief John Rose said the new ambulance serves the whole community, not just Oak Bluffs.
For many summer visitors, eating a lobster roll is paramount to a great vacation on the Vineyard, as important as taking a walk on the beach. Few know more about the making of a lobster roll than Lorraine Clark, Beatrice Green and Rev. Robert E. Hensley of Grace Episcopal church. The three revealed some secrets of their church’s lobster roll enterprise, at a talk earlier this month at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
In 1985 the rock journalist Stephen Davis wrote a book about Led Zeppelin called Hammer of the Gods. Mr. Davis traveled with the band during their 1975 Physical Graffiti tour and witnessed the band members up close at what many say was the height of their creative powers. The book became a New York Times bestseller. The band hated it.
The Island’s oldest and youngest high school football teams met, not for a match but for a meal last Friday night at the school cafeteria. Nineteen members of the 1960 team met the 2010 team before the big Saturday game with Nantucket. Add to that six members of the 1960 cheerleaders, who also shared stories with the current squad.