‘When I feel a little shiver’
“Throw Roses in the Rain” (mixed media diptych with acrylics on panel), by Deborah T. Colter, at Atelier Newport, though July 22.
She says:
“My work currently speaks to my infatuation with process and exploration. Painting allows me to discover places that feel both familiar and unknown. Often I feel the work arrives out of nowhere as if sent from a place beyond my knowledge. I deeply trust in the messy process of creating, with all its inherent bumps and wrinkles, which helps me understand my need to continue on this creative path.
“When a piece begins to coalesce and I feel a little shiver run down my spine, it is then that I understand the painting has taken on a life of its own.’’
She lives on Martha’s Vineyard
The Old Whaling Church , in the Edgartown Village Historic District, on the eastern side of Martha’s Vineyard. Built with whaling captains’ money in 1843, this stately landmark is considered one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the country.. The second quarter of the 19th Century was the heyday of the whaling industry, which was centered in southern New England.
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'The notion of romance'
Edgartown Harbor Light.
“Perhaps nowhere else is the notion of romance more firmly embedded than at the Edgartown Light.’’
— Julia Wells, in “History of Vineyard Lighthouses,’’ in the April 7, 2001 Vineyard Gazette.
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The first lighthouse at this site, built in 1828, was a two-story wooden structure that also served as the keeper's house. It was replaced by the current cast-iron tower in 1939. Originally on an artificial island about a quarter mile from shore, the lighthouse is now surrounded by a beach formed formed by sand accumulating around the stone causeway connecting it to the Vineyard mainland.
Edgartown is a rich summer resort town.
Leadership as moral act
Gravestone for “Bart’’ Giamatti and his wife in New Haven
“Management is the capacity to handle multiple problems, neutralize various constituencies, motivate personnel….Leadership, on the other hand, is an essential moral act, not — as in most management — an essentially protective act. It is the assertion of a vision, not simply the exercise of a style.’’
— A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989) in “An Address to School Administrators’’ . Born in Boston and a Renaissance literature scholar, he served as president of Yale University in 1978-86, as National {baseball} League president in 1986-89, and for only five months as baseball commissioner in 1989, before suffering a fatal heart attack at his summer home, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard. He was a lifelong Red Sox fan.