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The new exhibition “Woven: Art and Industry on Martha’s Vineyard,” at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, is sure to get you thinking about the historic importance of weaving here, beginning with the ancestors of the Wampanoag Tribe. The introductory panel sets the stage, telling us that weaving is one of the oldest crafts still practiced today. […] ....
This installment of Second Acts started out as a profile on Steve Ewing, dockbuilder-poet. If ever there was a Vineyarder finding his “other self,” it’s Steve, a man who drives 20-foot pilings into sand and mud and then goes home to express his feelings in iambic pentameter. But in exploring Steve’s expressive journey, it became […] ....
Objects in museums relate stories, and 26 of them tell all sorts of tales in the newest exhibition, “Martha’s Vineyard Museum A-Z.” The show is a compact treasure trove a tasting menu, so to speak, from the collection. You’ll see everything from an intriguing fabric-constructed Nancy Luce doll to majestic signal flags whose abstract, […] ....
The encompassing, floor-to-ceiling wall photograph of the sanctuary of the first Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center warmly embraces us as we walk into “They Planted the Seeds: Creating Jewish Community on Martha’s Vineyard.” The exhibition is packed with stimulating ideas and intriguing objects from both the past and present, historic photographs, and the engrossing voices of […] ....
Joseph Thaxter, born in Hingham in 1744, grew up sickly and impoverished. He worked on his parents’ meager farm until the age of 19, and planned to become a cooper. But then he bought a winning lottery ticket, and used his substantial proceeds to attend Harvard. After graduating in 1768 (and for a while thereafter […] ....