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Like many other parents at the Ceremony of Remembrance on Saturday, Kathy Fortini stood around a stone bearing the name of her own child. She stared out into the ocean and said, “This place is perfect — it’s how he’d be looking out.”
Each stone at the Edgartown Lighthouse Children’s Memorial tells a story of a child’s life cut too short. This eighth annual ceremony honored all of the Vineyard children who have died; some Islanders, some frequent visitors.
The Farm Neck Foundation has issued a call for applicants for the Foundation’s 2009 grants. All Island nonprofit organizations whose goal is to improve the quality of life in the Martha’s Vineyard community are eligible.
Free of Cars, Circuit Avenue Comes Alive
Circuit avenue is closed to automobiles and the street swells with live music, fresh food, various vendors and endless delights this Saturday, Sept. 19, from noon to 8 p.m., for the 32nd Annual Tivoli Day. The celebration is meant to be a thank-you from Oak Bluffs business owners to the public, for their cooperation and friendliness during the busy summer season.
A familiar face on the Vineyard Haven waterfront, Steve Besse, 60, of Vineyard Haven and Guilford, Conn., was this year’s winner of the 32nd annual George Moffett Race on Saturday. Forty sailboats raced off East Chop in Nantucket Sound.
Mr. Besse sailed a 40-foot boat called Apres, a J/120. He was not just the first, but in a handicap race, he also was the first to cross the line. Mr. Besse is noted for being the first and last windsurfer to sail around the Island.
In an extraordinary display of unity, the Vineyard’s six towns, the Dukes County Commission and Martha’s Vineyard Commission have formed an unbroken front to oppose state plans to permit huge commercial wind-farming operations in Vineyard waters.
They will do it through a moratorium on all large-scale wind power developments on the Island and in surrounding waters, which will come into force in two weeks’ time.
Are you happy? is the title of a daylong meditation retreat with Ed Hardy on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society Chapel on Main street in Vineyard Haven
This retreat, sponsored by the Insight Meditation community of Martha’s Vineyard, will include meditation, sitting, walking and guided meditations as well as yoniso manasikara — the practice of “wise apprehension” directed towards the liberation of happiness.