Sam Low
At first glance it would seem that allowing folks in seaplanes to zoom into any of our great ponds is a bad idea. And maybe it is. But, according to a knowledgeable bush pilot friend, the pilot who landed recently on Edgartown Great Pond, Thomas Miozzi of Rhode Island, was within his rights. Most water bodies are open to seaplanes unless there is a local ordinance against them. The seaplane pilots association lists Tisbury Great Pond, Edgartown Great Pond and Chilmark Pond as “Open, no known restrictions,” in their water landing directory.
In a 1967 Life magazine story, the late William Stryon was quoted as saying: “Writing is a cruel and wracking pursuit. I hope none of my children follow in my path.”
Alexandra Styron has done just that, and in her book — Reading My Father — she has found a lifeline away from the scar tissue of her upbringing to a deep and compelling portrait of a complex person — father and writer.
The wind over Lucy Vincent Beach has to be just right, from the southeast and maybe 10 to 15 miles an hour, so that it strikes the cliff there and forms a column of rising air. When that happens, if you are a paraglider pilot, it can be magic.
On Sunday, Claire Nichols was at the Grey Barn in West Tisbury. “My mom is the cheese maker here.
She’s making yogurt now. I like to play with the goats and walk around the farm.
We just moved here from New York and I like Martha’s Vineyard very much.”
The signs appeared all over the Island last weekend and caught residents by surprise. One sits on the hill west of the Tashmoo overlook, with gnarled and bent trees in the background and to the right a green sward rolling to a glimpse of the lake. It is a crisp white sign with the words, “Look how much I adore you.” From a distance, it appears as a sharp rectangular shape imposed on the undulating natural forms all around. What to make of it? Who put it up — and why?
Last Saturday night at the Chilmark Tavern, Dee Stevens, artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and David Stanwood, pianist and inventor of a new system of piano tuning, performed for the Imagine Arts Festival put on by Marianne Goldberg and the Pathways Projects Institute.