1:28 pm, March 24, 2015
Divas on Ice will entertain with some spectacular figure skating this weekend, Friday, March 27, at 6 p.m. and again Saturday, March 28, at 1 p.m.
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Divas Take to the Ice
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A Walk in the Dark
1:34 pm, March 24, 2015
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary is highlighting energy reduction by turning off the lights and offering an exploratory night hike.
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Young Dancers Dazzle
1:40 pm, March 24, 2015
Dancers from the Rise Dance Company will perform their award-winning 2015 competition choreography on Sunday, March 29, at the Oak Bluffs School.
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Piano Concert for a Cause
1:51 pm, March 24, 2015
Join the Daybreak Clubhouse community as they host a classical piano performance at the Whaling Church featuring New Zealander Charles Whitehead on Saturday, March 28, at 4 p.m.
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Island Poets Open National Poetry Month
1:55 pm, March 24, 2015
National Poetry Month gets a kickoff when Lee McCormack, Arnie Reisman and Rose Styron present their works at the Vineyard Haven Public Library on Wednesday, April 1, at 7 p.m.
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Spring Potluck
2:06 pm, March 24, 2015
Spring is here but in case you’re still chilly, you can warm up to the sounds of Serendipity with Danny Whiting at the annual potluck and social at the Agricultural Hall on Saturday, March 28.
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Kathryn Stewart Sang With the USO on the Island
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 2:17pm
Kathryn B. Stewart of Vineyard Haven died on Friday, March 20, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was 90.
The daughter of Frank and Eleanor Baptiste, Kathryn was born on Feb. 15, 1925 in a house on Beech street in Vineyard Haven. She graduated from Tisbury School in 1942. An active member of her class, she participated in the basketball and softball teams, and numerous musical events.
Kathryn attended Boston University during the war years, completing her bachelor of music degree with music education certification in 1946. She was a member of the Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority, whose mission states what Kathryn demonstrated throughout her life: “to provide support for music in the community in whatever way possible.”
During summers of the war years she was active with the USO as a singer, and socialized and jitter-bugged with troops stationed on the Island.
Her first music teaching job was in a junior high school in Lewiston, Maine.
In 1948, after a longtime summer romance, she married A. Douglas Stewart after he completed his service in the Navy.
The first years of their marriage were spent in New Rochelle, N.Y., and Kathryn taught in Pellham, N.Y.
Daughter Carolee was born in 1950, and the family moved to the Island in 1951, when Douglas was hired to teach in Edgartown. Barbara was born that same year.
During the mid 1950s, Kathryn began teaching one day a week in the three up-Island schools — Gay Head, Chilmark and West Tisbury. Over time, this expanded to full time in West Tisbury and Chilmark. She is remembered fondly for writing songs for the three up-Island towns.
Kathryn was well known for her soprano voice in the Martha’s Vineyard Chorus and Abendmusik, often serving as the soloist. She directed the Martha’s Vineyard Chorus during the late 1950s and later started the Scottish Society singers. After she retired from teaching up-Island, she accompanied for and toured with the Minnesingers in the early 1970s.
Kathryn was an excellent bridge player and was a founding member of the Bridgettes in the 1950s, a bridge club that still exists.
She and her husband were well traveled and they enjoyed many trips with friends and relatives around the world and across the U.S.
A lifelong member of the First Baptist Church of Vineyard Haven, she held membership in many of its organizations, was active in missions and served as financial secretary. She was a member of the choir and succeeded her mother as organist, holding that position along with the post of organist at the Gay Head Community Baptist Church for some 30 years. She had a strong interest in Island history and compiled a history of the Baptist church.
In addition, she held leadership positions in Plymouth Bay Girl Scout Council and was very active with the Red Stocking fund.
Kathryn was predeceased by her husband in March of 2005. In addition to her daughters, Carolee Stewart and Barbara S. Lopes, she is survived by son in law Carl F. Lopes and three grandchildren, Dorian Lopes, Nathan Lopes and Robyn Lopes-Beaulieu.
Visiting hours were held March 23 in the Chapman, Cole and Gleason Funeral Home in Oak Bluffs. Her funeral service was held in the First Baptist Church in Vineyard Haven on Tuesday, March 24. Interment followed in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Vineyard Haven.
Donations may be made in her memory to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 806 or to the Island Community Chorus, P.O. Box 4157, both in Vineyard Haven, MA 02568.
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Lee Mogel, New York City Architect, Gazette Contributor, Dies at 81
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 2:23pm
Lee Mogel of New York city and West Tisbury died on Feb. 27. He was 81.
Born in Brooklyn, Lee attended Brooklyn College where he majored in studio art and studied with Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. He then attended Yale University School of Architecture where he learned from Josef Albers and Louis Kahn. During his 40-year career, he designed and managed major architectural projects here and abroad, including airports, office buildings, hospitals and other commercial structures. Above all, he was a world traveler, an inventive tinkerer and an artist.
He was a part-time resident of the Vineyard since 1982. The Vineyard was a very special place for him as it was where he had the time and space to experiment and dream. He designed and built his only residential project here — his own house. It was based on ideas from his time at architecture school in the 1950s, and incorporated unusual angles and octagonal structures. It is full of his handmade, whimsical touches, such as gargoyle water-spouts in the shape of fish, made from scrap metal; and an entire simulated sculpture garden made of individual pieces of metal junk placed carefully on pedestals, painted bright, monochromatic colors, and hidden in a clearing in the woods.
Certain Vineyard traditions made him extremely happy: being able to sit on the beach at Long Point, thanks to the kind staff and the electric cart when the effects of Parkinson’s made it difficult for him to get there on his own; eating oysters from Larsen’s in Menemsha; visiting various lumberyards and hardware stores to collect materials for a new art or building project; and spending time with his family when they visited during the summer months.
He was a regular writer of letters to the editor and opinion pieces to the Gazette from 1994 until 2009. He used humor and artful satire to opine on the inexorable development of the Vineyard. A memorable piece, Fences at Deep Bottom Road Pose Riddle, cited Alaska’s Bridge to Nowhere, Boston’s Big Dig, Robert Frost, Abraham Lincoln, and the riddle of the Sphinx.
He is lovingly remembered by his wife Gretta, his daughters Lize and Claudia, and his three grandchildren. His family requests that gifts in his memory be made to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation.
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Contracts, Salaries Set for Incoming School Superintendents
3:20 pm, March 24, 2015
Incoming assistant superintendent Richard Smith will be paid $140,000. Superintendent Matthew D’Andrea, who takes over when Dr. James Weiss retires in July, will earn $165,000. The all-Island school committee was divided last week over the salary for Mr. Smith.
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West Tisbury Town Column: March 27
2:52 pm, March 24, 2015
The spring flowers are hard to find, but many birds are back. We should be so lucky as to see the grass, never mind what color it is.
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From Farming to Bats, Fellowships Go to Islanders With Sustainable Vision
3:28 pm, March 24, 2015
A film documenting commercial fishing, studies of northern long-eared bats and farm equipment fueled by waste vegetable oil are among the projects named for this year’s Vision Fellowship Awards.
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Old Coach Road in West Tisbury Protected as Ancient Way
9:10 am, March 25, 2015
A historic mail route in West Tisbury has been set aside for special protection from future development. The Martha’s Vineyard Commission late last week agreed to add Old Coach Road to a growing group of historic Island footpaths protected under the special ways critical planning district.
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Discovery of Endangered Plant Poses Problem for Gay Head Light Project
11:19 am, March 25, 2015
The Gay Head Light relocation project has hit a potential snag following recent notice from the state Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program that the site contains habitat for the broad tinker’s weed, an endangered wild plant.
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Accessory Housing Bylaw
2:04 pm, March 26, 2015
The Chilmark housing committee, working with the planning board, the board of health and the zoning board of appeals, has come up with another way to address the shortage of available year-round housing for our working families, friends and community.
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Critical Expenditure
2:07 pm, March 26, 2015
My husband hauled moorings on Menemsha Pond until he was 81 years old. He is about to turn 87 in another month. He has always been active, healthy, colorful, impetuous, sometimes exasperating, brilliant and loving.
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Expand Collaboration
2:10 pm, March 26, 2015
This spring, the county commissioners have placed an article on town warrants requesting the funding to purchase a facility to house the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living.
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Worthwhile Project
2:13 pm, March 26, 2015
I’m in my late sixties and still able to get around, workout at the Y, see friends, independently go to public events. Down the road I may very well not be as physically and mentally fit as I am now.
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Permanent Home Needed
2:16 pm, March 26, 2015
I am writing to urge people in all six towns to vote in favor of the bond issue, at your town meeting April 14, to secure a home for the supportive day program.
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April Is Autism Awareness Month, But For Some It's a Daily Embrace
2:18 pm, March 26, 2015
April is autism awareness month, but around our house we’re acutely aware of autism every day.
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Passing the Hat and a Spinnaker, Too
2:24 pm, March 26, 2015
Thirteen point seven billion years, cosmologists now feel, is the time it took for our universe to get its act together and produce the primordial ooze from which intelligent beings eventually emerged.
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