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Police, firefighters and the state fire marshal are investigating a rare arson in the Tower Hill neighborhood of Edgartown, and the owner of the home is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in the case.
Of all the various experts gathered to speak about global warming and sea level rise at last Friday’s Living on the Edge conference on Nantucket, Franklin W. Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America, delivered perhaps the most disturbing message.
His insight was not related to the phenomenon itself so much as to the chances of a meaningful and concerted response. It was about politics and psychology more than environmental science.
In 326 B.C., they thundered across Rajasthan and Punjab in northwest India on their war horses; men in military garb, shouting their battle cries, wielding lances and sabers and bent on conquest.
And 2,300 years later, they came from Rajasthan and Punjab to thunder across the sands of Chappaquiddick on their war horses; men in military garb, shouting their battle cries, wielding lances and sabers, also bent on conquest. But of a different kind.
Jessie Little Doe Baird was having a bad week. On Sept. 13 she went to a ceremony to ask for cleansing, to ask for help and to give thanks for the good and the bad in her life.
“We need both of those things, unfortunately. We do,” she said in an interview at her home in Aquinnah, built by her husband, the medicine man of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Jason Baird.
Cultural Grants
Several Island arts groups have been awarded grants by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Cape and Islands state representative Timothy R. Madden, said that these grants support Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, the Silver Screen Film Society, the Vineyard Playhouse and the Yard.
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is asking for nominations for the Spirit of The Vineyard Award. This award, given annually, honors those who have served for one or more nonprofit organizations on the Island, and whose work has made a difference to individuals and to the community as a whole. The criteria for selection include selflessness, the range and depth of service performed, the length of volunteer service and the effect on the quality of life of the individuals who received help and for the Island community as a whole.