West Tisbury’s Public Library (on Martha’s Vineyard) is a tremendous community center. It’s been in operation over a decade at its current location and has grown in cardholders by 1000% and there’s not an inch of shelf-space for new books. — This video was produced to help raise the funds needed to build a new library.
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Produced in collaboration with Island Grown Initiative, Featherstone Center for the Arts and MVTV, this video captures the deep feelings and the business necessity of growing your own food.
Thanks to the Young Video Journalists: Oscar Thompson, Avery Lazes, Brad Anastacio, Fawn Peletier, Rose Maidoff, Bella Maidoff and Madison Ibsen for all their brilliant and insightful work.
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Ross Gannon is a wooden boat builder. His boat, Elita, is a 45’ sloop here seeing the light of day and the open air for the first time. It’s a beauty and was 18 years in the making.
The Belles of the Bells, the West Tisbury Congregational Church Bell Choir reveals a ringing novelty of mid Summer in Edgartown — the charm of imaginative people sharing music. This piece is a beginning to end tune at sunset — on the Chappy Ferry no less.
Lanny takes us on trip to catch shorebirds at Katama, Martha’s Vineyard. His conversational style belies a wealth of knowledge and experience both in photographing birds and in conservation. Lanny McDowell is a Vineyard birder of the first order.
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Rose Abrahamson says “at my age, death and time are my friends.” It could be a Samuel Beckett quote. But it’s her’s. It says a lot.
Rose lives in the time of a person struck by timelessness, the timelessness of an imagination in continuous motion. In such a life, it is possible, to paraphrase William Butler Yeats, to lose “the dancer in the dance.”
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Martha’s Vineyard is sandy… The land is porous, and so what seeps into the ground moves up to 3 feet a day… into our ponds. This video, shot and produced by Fawn Peletier, Avery Lazes and Brad Anastacio is an off-beat, but earnest look at the effects high-nitrogen content water has on wildlife, shellfish and the health and sustainability of our great tidal ponds.
Produced in collaboration with Vineyard Conservation Society, this piece brings the whole story of water — from drain to algae-covered ponds — into focus. Thanks to Brendan O’Neil, Luanne Johnson, Rick Karney and Bob Woodruff for providing vital insight into the story of water here.
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