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Elio Silva, owner of the Tisbury Farm Market in Vineyard Haven, knows his beans. He grew up on his father’s coffee farm in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Moving to the Vineyard in 1988, he purchased a roasting machine, founded the MV Coffee Company three years later, and has roasted his beans here ever since.
“A lot of times people look at coffee beans as a very simple thing, but it’s very complex,” he says.
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society has issued a call for applicants for their annual grant program. Eligible are all farm related individuals or organizations whose goal is to improve the quality of life and contribute to the sustainability of the Martha’s Vineyard agricultural community.
Question: Were times truly simpler — in America and, specifically, on the Vineyard — in the first years of the 20th century, or did certain artists and poets convey a simplicity that was more art than reality? Cynthia Riggs of West Tisbury, mystery writer and daughter of Vineyard poet Dionis Coffin Riggs (1898-1997) and Vineyard block print artist, Sidney Noyes Riggs (1892-1975), maintains that her parents’ nostalgia for quieter, gentler times on the Island was part artifice, albeit a very appealing artifice.
Prostate Cancer Support
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services will host the prostate cancer support group on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 10:30 a.m. in the board room at the Community Services administration building. The session is open to all and free of charge. For information call 508-693-7900, extension 320.
Consumer Price Watch
By SUSAN CATLING
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Feb.11:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil 2.599 Depot Corner 2.599
Edgartown Mobil 2.659
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s 2.579
Jim’s 2.699
Vineyard Haven
Citgo 2.659
Tisbury Shell 2.769
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive 2.459
Walking around downtown Edgartown in February, it is easy to discover just how many ways there are to say, “We’re closed.”
There is the restrained: “Closed. See you in May.” The effusive, “We are EXCITED to be reopening on Main Street this Spring 2009!” The amicable: “Have a great winter,” and the downright cryptic: “Closed . . . Tea leaf reading is available by appointment.”