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The Yard Arts! Kids, Family and Community festival programming continues. Besides the free family Saturday matinees every week (see above), The Yard is offering one more kids’ creative theatre workshop, an upcoming opportunity for kids to perform at the Tabernacle, and the Multi-Generational Performance Project with Sarah Wilbur.
Up in West Tisbury, past the airport but before the Mill Pond, is a small building. A part of both Island and national history, it serves as a social and cultural melting pot and a way to track economic trends. It is the Lillian Manter Memorial Hostel and, on a recent Tuesday morning shortly after 10 a.m., every bed was booked, but not a guest was around. The hot July sun was out and the groups of bikers and summer campers, the travellers from Canada and Germany and the friends shacked up in the one private room were all off exploring the Island.
Even Art Buchwald had his dream.
“I imagine it this way,” he wrote in a 2002 column in this newspaper. “I am going to be cremated and then have my ashes dropped over every cocktail party on Martha’s Vineyard. It’s the only way I can make all the parties held here in the summer. I want Cape Air, the friendly, nine-seat airline, to fly me . . . The plane takes off from Martha’s Vineyard Airport, and Mike Wallace is in charge of dropping the ashes.”
Parish Contributes Funds
To Catholic Charities
The Martha’s Vineyard Parish of the Good Shepherd contributed $20,450 to the 2008 Catholic Charities Appeal in the Diocese of Fall River.
The diocesan appeal raised just under $4.3 million.
The final tally is $10,052 below last year’s record high, representing a decrease of approximately two tenths of one per cent.
Island Insurance Agency
Hires Account Executive
Martha’s Vineyard Insurance Agency has added Carrie-Lynn Whitney to its sales staff at its Edgartown office.
Ms. Whitney, a 20-year veteran in the insurance industry, has joined the agency as an account executive. Most recently, she has been employed as a benefits consultant handling national accounts. She has relocated from Connecticut to Edgartown.
Black-owned businesses on Martha’s Vineyard span its economic and cultural niches while catering to a general audience. They are inns, art galleries, boutiques and restaurants as well as service providers from real estate to holistic weight loss. But many African American business owners, year-rounders, vacationers and community leaders agree that, given the Island’s history and large African American summer population, there are not nearly enough black-owned businesses based here.