Archive for the 'Happenings on the Vineyard' category

Christmas in Edgartown is a Vineyard tradition shared by young and old and enhanced by the glimmer of freshly fallen snow.  This weekend event is bursting with festivities and shopping which will certainly get you in the holiday spirit.  Click here for a full list of events.

Recent national press reports claim that pop singing sensation Lady Gaga, she of the outrageous costumes, is building a house on the remote, eastern end of Martha's Vineyard on the island of Chappaquiddick, far from the maddening crowd and nightclubs but not far from the ticks, mosquitoes, and Meg Ryan's house. There is no confirmation to date. Traditionally Islanders take such celebrity news in stride, or with a big yawn.This past weekend, Times reporter Naomi Pallas went to Edgartown and asked the question: "What do you think about the rumor Lady Gaga might spend some time on the Island?" Read more...

Island Fourth of July Festivities: By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG MV Gazette               

There are always the telltale signs this time of year: tourists crowding sun-drenched streets, flags flying proudly above every doorway and red, white, and blue everywhere you look. The Fourth of July is nearly here, and with it comes the official start of summer on the Vineyard.

And Edgartown is a classic place for a Fourth of July celebration. Its perfect white houses, each a marker of the town’s rich history from the days of whaling, neatly frame the Island’s annual Independence Day celebration, watching over the parade and its revelers as they wind and weave through town. Read more

The venerable Gay Head Light is in need of rehabilitation.The Gay Head Light has provided a guiding beacon of light for generations of Island residents and visitors. A symbol of the Island and link to its nautical past, the venerable Gay Head Lighthouse on the western tip of the Island is quietly in need of help. Not immediately, but over the long term if its beacon is to provide a marker for future generations.  Read more...

By MIKE SECCOMBE MV Gazette

On first glimpse, through the trees along Northern Pines Road in Vineyard Haven, the new building might be taken for an incongruously placed sports grandstand.

It’s a huge inclined rectangle, propped on poles, eight feet off the ground at the front, 28 feet at the back, looking out across a pretty green field.

But it’s not a grandstand, and its orientation has nothing to do with the view. It is so placed to catch maximum sunlight, and its entire 5,000-square-foot surface is covered in vitreous black panels. It’s a solar array. And a barn. And the shape of things to come as the alternative energy push shifts focus on the Island from wind power to sun power.  Read more...