Despite the ever-changing landscape of the Vineyard’s rock and folk music scene, there’s always live music to be found, both indoors and out, both in the summer and off-season. The sometimes sparkling and sometimes muddy waters of live music on the Island run deep, and like the wake that follows every departing ferry, it seems there are always a couple of questions churning up. At the end of last summer we wondered, would Outerland really close?
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From walls around farmland to features in contemporary landscape design, what man has made of stone spans centuries and defines cultures.
They mark our place in history, structures of rock as daunting as the great pyramids of Egypt, as hauntingly beautiful as the Inuit inukshuk of the Canadian arctic, and as humbly elegant as the stone walls defining the pastures and lining the roads of Martha’s Vineyard.
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Though there’s an optimism of late, “not very” seems to be the common refrain from Vineyarders in the know. The diverse habitats and beautiful natural landscapes on Martha’s Vineyard may make us more sensitive to the fragility of our environment, and recently, environmental issues have gained in visibility here, but our Island is generally no different or better than anywhere else. We – like society as a whole – are recovering from blindness to environmental problems.
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Most of us know the basic benefits of organic garden and lawn care – it doesn’t put toxic products in the soil that can pollute the water supply, it’s safer for pets and children, it even reduces the amount of waste going to landfills by utilizing kitchen compost and yard waste as mulch and fertilizer – but can you get as lush a lawn and as vibrant a garden without using chemicals?
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