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By KATE FEIFFER
This one is for the record books. Literally. A few minutes after noon on Wednesday, Ashrita Furman officially set a new world record for the three-minute grape catch, having caught 189 grapes in his mouth. The event took place in the parking lot of the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore. Naturally.
Mr. Furman and accomplished grape-tosser Bipin Larkin, both of Queens, N.Y., are the reigning Guinness Book of World Records three-minute and one-minute grape catch record holders.
Billionaire’s Book Club
Written in Water, Messages of Hope for Earth’s Most Precious Resource, is now on J.P. Morgan’s summer top ten reading list in the Billionaires’ Book Club. Written in Water was launched earlier this year by National Geographic and World Waterway on the island of Martha’s Vineyard with a water weekend that featured a host of speakers and a performance by renowned Native American flutist, R. Carlos Nakai.
Fair Entries Ready?
The Agricultural Hall will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon beginning Monday, August 2 to accept entry forms for the 2010 fair. Also, members of the community who would like to volunteer or work at the fair may come to sign up to do so during these hours.
Fair books will be available at the Ag Hall.
Vineyard Boys Win
At Bay State Games
On July 10, Reid and Justice Yennie of West Tisbury took home gold and silver respectively in the boys’ tennis singles at the Bay State Games in Harvard, making it two years in a row that Vineyarders have won Gold at the games.
The Yennies train at Vineyard Youth Tennis and play on the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School tennis team.
Maybe you’ve seen them when you drive past Veira Park in Oak Bluffs or Nunes Field in Edgartown. You might have heard the metal clinks of their bats connecting with a fast-moving — relatively speaking, Dustin Pedroia would send it right over the fence — pitch, or maybe the booming voices of their coaches calling out plays from across the field.
Maybe you’ve seen them when you drive past Veira Park in Oak Bluffs or Nunes Field in Edgartown. You might have heard the metal clinks of their bats connecting with a fast-moving — relatively speaking, Dustin Pedroia would send it right over the fence — pitch, or maybe the booming voices of their coaches calling out plays from across the field. What you might not have seen or heard, though, are the sounds of actual game play.
Accompanying the Fish and Wildlife Service, guardians of the island, on a visit to Noman's Land Island National Wildlife Refuge.