June Manning
What is the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living? Originally called the Island Councils on Aging, the Center for Living has served Islanders who are 55 and over for almost 40 years. In 2009, the name was changed to the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living to eliminate confusion and more importantly to change the focus from aging to living. The program continues to be a partner with the town councils on aging and other organizations serving Islanders 55 and older.
There was a formal change of command ceremony yesterday at U.S. Coast Guard Station Menemsha.
Under crisp blue skies, with a gentle breeze accompanying the clear view of the Elizabeth Islands and Vineyard Sound, chief boatswain’s mate Jason Olsen was installed as the new chief of the station. Now officer in charge here, Mr. Olsen’s last assignment was in North Carolina, where he was executive petty officer at the station Fort Macon.
Luther Tacknash Madison died peacefully at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Thursday night, March 12, after a long illness, during which, as Medicine Man of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) he never complained. His final happy words, according to his great-nephew Jason Baird, now Medicine Man, were that “My beautiful sunset is coming.”
Luther Madison was born at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Nov. 9, 1924, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Nanetta Cassaundra Wilhelmina Vanderhoop Madison.