Laid into the pavement in front of the last voluntarily chosen residence of these citizens, the plaques are the life’s work of German sculptor Gunter Demnig, whose inspiration comes from a passage in the Talmud: “A person is only forgotten when his name is forgotten.”
A Menemsha resident who sued her neighbors for alleged, illegal tree cutting on her property has agreed upon a $2.5 million settlement. In the original complaint, filed with the Dukes County Superior Court in February of last year by her attorneys, Martha Cottle, Trustee of the Cottle Family Realty Trust, claimed that over 100 trees […]
Doug West began coming to Martha’s Vineyard in summers as a kid, back in 1952, and later his family bought a cottage in Oak Bluffs. When he met Irene Ziebarth in California, she had never been to the Island, but she quickly became a summer convert. When they both retired in 2006, they began to […]