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Can you imagine explaining the contemporary garment known as a T-shirt to George Washington? Picture the guy dressed in layers of scratchy underwear, breeches, dress shirt, heavy jacket, tights, boots and a hat like a complicated folded napkin.
Kim Nye bought an old hardware store on Uncas avenue in Oak Bluffs back in 2000, with an eye to opening an art gallery. She renovated it the following year but waited until now, a likely recession period, to open the gallery.
The village of North Tisbury has long stood as a sleepy, rustic outpost at this Island’s midpoint. Beneath its tranquil exterior this summer are stirrings of a quiet revival in the neighborhood, as commercial, culinary and artistic endeavors are bringing new life to this State Road streetscape.
A stroll through the neighborhood can be the perfect antidote to noise and traffic congestion in the downtown areas. The walk draws visitors into the unrushed tempo of northern New England towns you find in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Tuesday morning, Tisbury selectman Denys Wortman surveyed the old Tashmoo pumping station with his hands on his hips.
The place smelled like a damp basement, with dank cement and fresh cut plywood. Each step was accompanied with the tiny crunch of dirt and concrete pebbles. The ceiling was patchy. Flies orbited a hanging light fixture as the morning rays intruded through the broken window panes. White plaster flaked off the brick walls and a green mold seemed to have grown from the floor.
Nevette Previd and John Guadagno were married on Feb. 16 in Tulum, Mexico.
The bride is the daughter of Delena and Franco Previd of Harwich. The bridegroom is the son of Sharon and Angelo Guadagno of Boston and Edgartown.
Ann Marie Healy Weds
Dr. Bruce W. Herdman
Ann Marie Healy married Dr. Bruce William Herdman on May 10 at Wasque on the bluff overlooking Swan Pond, Chappaquiddick.
Dr. Susan Herdman, the bridegroom’s twin sister, officiated.
The bride was a resident of Glenolden, Pa. She is the daughter of Marlene and Frank Healy of Glenolden.
The bridegroom is a resident of Woodstown, N.J. He is the son of Agnes and the late William Herdman of Yardley, Pa.