Contents: August-September 2011
Our second issue features three local painters, articles on hospice and film festivals and non fiction on new environmentalism, just to sample a bit of this full issue.
Highlights: stories by Geraldine Brooks, Tony Horwitz, poetry by Michael Burkard and photography by Neal Rantoul and a great photo "salon" on Elizabeth Cecil, and much more.
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Art by Numbers — Creative Economy
A discussion on the overall value of the arts to our creative economy.
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Donald Nitchie: The Tiasquam . . .
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Hospice — Toward a Terminal Peace
Seeking work with the dying and learning so much about the living.
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Geraldine Brooks — Caleb's Crossing
A 17th century "Wôpanâak" student of Harvard — from Noepe, or Capawok, or Martha's Vineyard
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Caring for One's Own — Green Burial
Providing meaningful, personal care for loved ones, after death.
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Contributors
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Featherstone Center for the Arts
15 Years of Building Community Through the Arts
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My Green Manifesto
My love for nature is something encoded in me.
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Camp Jabberwocky, Magic and Art
At Camp Jabberwocky "There’s A Place for All Of Us"
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Film | Here
Film festivals aren’t merely occasional instances of people catching a movie, but are recurring social and community spaces for people to gather, enjoy, affirm and test, then return to the thrust of daily life.
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Julie Carr — Face
Poetry by author of "Mead: An Epithalamion," "Equivocal," "100 Notes on Violence" and "Sarah—Fragments and Lines"
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Q&A with Tony Horwitz: Midnight Rising
"John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal event."
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Editor's Letter August-September 2011
"Artists and people involved in the arts refresh, or recast how we see each other. This seems to me a substantial personal and social need."
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Michael Burkard — Leaf In the Forest
Poetry by the author of 'Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1966-1990' and 'lucky coat anywhere' and others.
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Profile: Elizabeth Cecil
A "Salon" of Carnival and Outerland photographs.
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Marie-Louise Rouff
Artist Profile: Color, emotion and "landscape" in contemporary painting
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Dan Vanlandingham
Artist Profile: "I’m interested in the physical and cultural treatment of space"
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Traeger Di Pietro
Artist Profile: "Place. My place is my heart. Everything stems from my heart..."
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Pam Flam — "Rothko's Dali Lama" Quilt
Portrait: “An idea grew in my mind to make a quilt that was like a painting."
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Witham, Taylor, LeLacheure — Aquinnah Wampum Belt
Portrait: "We wanted to make a belt that would honor our town; the continuity and sustainability of life in it."
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Jeanne Campbell — Church at Sunrise
Portrait: "It was a scene of silent awe and reflection..."
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Doug Kent — Untitled
Portrait: "I can paint my lines and follow where they go—and go on a very exiting journey."
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Gary Mirando — Edgartown Great Pond
Portrait "My intention was to document the impact of the algae bloom on the pond."
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Leslie Baker — End of Day
Portrait: "I painted until my studio was dark and I couldn’t really see. By then the moon was up, so I painted that in too."
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Neal Rantoul
Visiting Artist: "I have traveled a great deal and photographed wherever I’ve been, but my base, my core, is the Vineyard."
