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This post is an update to the one on Feb 6th titled “Islander Update”.
According to this article, at timesunion.com, the beloved Islander ferry was sold on Monday, Feb 23rd on Ebay for an estimated $23,600. According to the purchaser, Don Slovak, who is expected to pick up the Islander in the next few weeks, he doesn’t know if he’ll sell it whole or scrap it.
A sad ending for a work horse of a vessel who, even though not sleek or graceful, for 57 years brought her own special beauty to the waters surrounding the Vineyard. The Islander will continue to exist through paintings, photographs and in the memories of those who loved her. There was just “something” about her…
Bliss is being on the Vineyard and having a sunny window to lie in. Ahhh.
Here they are. A new batch of Espresso Love blueberry scones delivered to me by my new friend Kathryn.
Unwrapped and looking luscious.
I just happened to have an EL bag (or 2 or 3) so I put the scones in one for a photo. Then I separated them, four went in the freezer and two …
… were placed on dishes. I just had one with tea, the other is for my daughter Deb. My tastebuds are beside themselves with the joy of fresh blueberry scones.
Kathryn is a delight and we can’t wait to get together again. There’s definitely no lack of things to talk about with us, the Vineyard is of course top on the list of topics. Thank you Kathryn, thank you, thank you, thank you. Check out Kathryn’s blog ‘Thoughts Enroute’ by clicking here.
My post of a few days ago “The Lone Scone” prompted Kathryn, a new friend of mine to post about it on her blog “Thoughts Enroute”. You can read that post by clicking here.
I can’t wait to meet her at the end of the week. I have a feeling they’ll be another follow up post about it.
Birthday girl with her favorite doll on Martha’s Vineyard.
I don’t know what possessed me to try poetry but here goes (fingers crossed)…
‘Ode To A Blueberry Scone’
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Sitting alone in my freezer…
The last of the scones I brought home…
Born in the kitchen of Espresso Love...
It waits and waits all alone.
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Once it was part of six…
Or maybe it was seven…
The fact of the matter is…
These blueberry scones are a taste of heaven.
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For ten months I’ve selfishly horded them…
Savoring them one at a time…
Feebly offering to share them…
Hoping the person would decline.
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There’s something special about them…
Besides the way that they look and they taste…
They’re a connection to the Vineyard…
And not a crumb ever goes to waste.
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And so lonely scone…
Your turn will come soon…
After all…
For a new supply I must make room.
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(Please click here to take a look at my post from last year titled “My Perfect Breakfast.”)
An article in today’s Vineyard Gazette isn’t good news for the beloved ferry, the Islander. The Islander was retired in March of 2007 and since that time has sat idle in New York harbor. She was supposed to travel back and forth between Governor’s Island and Lower Manhattan. But now some issues have arisen and the Islander will supposedly be put up on Ebay in a week or so. If indeed this true it is an unfitting end for the Islander and sad for those who loved her. The article starts out saying:
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“Failboat: Islander Is No Longer Seaworthy, Course Set for eBay
By SAM BUNGEY
Less than two years after her final Vineyard voyage, the once-beloved ferry Islander is floating unwanted off Governors Island, N.Y. waiting to be auctioned off on eBay like so much attic junk.
She is scheduled to appear on the shopping and auction Web site on the morning before Valentine’s Day. There is no reserve bid.
It was supposed to be a new lease on life for the old girl. When the board of Governors Island stepped into buy the ferry in 2007, some dignified sunset years looked in store for the 57 year-old vessel, plying the few hundred yards of calm Hudson waters between Lower Manhattan and the tiny New York bay island.
But she never even made a single journey.”
You can read the entire article by clicking here.
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I’ve done two blog posts about the Islander, please click on…The Islander and The Islander Now and Then to read them.
Long ago and far away in the year of nineteen hundred and eighty four a staff of very clever, creative and whimsical people put out a parody issue of the Vineyard Gazette ingeniously titled ~ “Not The Vineyard Gazette”. I, collector of all things Vineyard actually have a copy of this one-time parody edition.
One of the articles on the front page is about the discovery of a baby Vineyard named Arthur’s Vineyard after the helicopter pilot who accidentally found it. There were several theories of how the baby Vineyard came to be, one of which was that it was the baby of MV and Nantucket and that a recent rain storm had been the baby shower. So funny.
Another article on the front page is “Oak Bluffs Changes Name to Oaks Bluffs.” Apparently the name change was due in part to the fact that too much time was being taken correcting people who were getting Oak Bluffs name wrong and it was decided to just not fight it anymore. Of course that would never ever ever happen.
Here’s an amusing article about Edgartown hiring fashion police. Apparently a glitch in getting the fashion police out on the streets is the inability to agree on a color scheme for their uniforms. Tawny brown and mocha versus cranberry and puce. I would think they’d have trouble recruiting anyone if they had to wear those combinations of colors.
Take your pick of a Vineyard themed movie.
This was an actual drink on the Vineyard. It was grape flavored water and it was delicious. I wonder whatever happened to it… I wonder why I didn’t keep a bottle of it, or the label at least. Here’s to the memory of Vine… sigh.
I especially like the ad that says: “Oak Bluffs Gingerbread. Just slightly gnawed. Still tasty.”
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