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… and Carly has a new CD, Never Been Gone, out to prove it.
Carly has re-recorded 10 of her hits and added 2 new ones. The songs have been updated to accommodate the natural changes in Carly’s beautiful voice. As long time fan of Carly’s I wondered how I would like the different arrangements. Not to worry, they’re spectacular and in my opinion will delight anyone listening to them. You don’t have to even know the originals to enjoy these songs..just sit back, close your eyes and let Carly’s lush and beautiful voice wash over you.
I had the pleasure of hearing Carly’s new rendition of “You’re So Vain” a couple of years ago at Joe’s Pub in New York City at a small concert she was giving. Carly brought the house down and everyone said she HAD to record it… and she has, and it’s pure genius as are the other songs on this CD.
I don’t mean for this post to be a review of “Never Been Gone”... I just want to share with readers of this blog that Carly is ‘comin around again’ although she’s ‘never been gone.’
Songs:
The Right Thing To Do It Happens Every Day
Never Been Gone Boys In The Trees
Let The River Run You’re So Vain
You Belong To Me No Freedom
That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be Coming Around Again
Anticipation Songbird
The Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm has changed…
It is now Juniper Moon Farm and has moved to Virginia.
Best wishes for success and happiness in Virginia to Susan, Erin and the flock.
Thursday, Aug 13th at 5:30 and 7:15pm at the Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven —
DocuTunes is premiering its first feature-lenght documentary.
“Kate Taylor – Tunes from the Tipi and Other Songs From Home“
DocuTunesTV PREMIERE: Kate Taylor – Tunes from the Tipi & Other Songs from Home
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The time has finally arrived. The Bunch of Grapes is re-opening after the devastating fire of last July 4th, 2008.
As reported in the Vineyard Gazette and The Martha’s Vineyard Times the Bunch of Grapes is open for business at 9am, Saturday, June 13th. Hooray.
Grand opening hoopla is set for Saturday, July 4th.
This is actually one of the 2008 babies but the 2009 additions are arriving almost minute by minute.
The kid babies are going to be named after fonts. Baby boy Arno was the first to arrive, on April 13th … followed by baby girl Bell on April 14th. And today, less than a few hours ago two sets of twins, don’t know what they are yet but they’ll be C and D font names.
CLICK ON THIS LINK to read Susan’s blog and see some of the baby pictures… but be warned, you might melt all over the computer screen.
Martha’s Vineyard/Hudson Valley Fiber Farms has good and not so good news.
First the good news… the Lamb cam is up and running and you can watch the sheep and goats to your hearts content. Careful though, it’s addicting 
Click here to watch.
The not good news is that there won’t be an MV Fiber Festival on the Vineyard this April. You can read Susan’s blog post about it by clicking here.
But wait, there’s still good news… their Hudson Valley Fiber Farm IS having its Shearing Day on May 9th.
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…
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.
According to an article in today’s Vineyard Gazette, the Bunch of Grapes bookstore has been sold. The new owner, Dawn Braasch, plans to open in mid-November in rented space at the old Beadniks warehouse on Church Street.
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Here’s a bit of what the article has to say …
“At about 650 square feet, the temporary store will carry what Ms. Braasch called “the best of what we had in the main store: bestsellers, Island books, children’s books, along with the top categories of what we sold the most of in the main bookstore, and cards, magazines and newspapers . . . And what we don’t have on the floor we can easily get in two or three days from our suppliers’ warehouses, so I hope that the community will support us.”
The temporary bookstore will open sometime in mid-November, Ms. Braasch said, keeping the same hours as the main store did, Saturdays to Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m.
“We want to do it as a show of good faith to the community that we are still very much alive and want to become a vital part of the downtown economy again,” she said. “This is a way of providing a service to the community through the holidays, through the winter when maybe other bookstores won’t stay open,” she said.“
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You can read the entire article by clicking here.
The Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm is expanding.
Susan Gibbs and Patrick Manning announced over the weekend that they are starting a second flock, and second yarn and fiber CSA on Patrick’s family farm in New York’s Hudson Valley. Hudson Valley Fiber Farm. Read some of the news from Susan below… for full post click here.
“Tuesday, October 21, 2008
So much to blog about…
I don’t even know where to begin! Okay, first the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
Patrick and I are very excited to announce that we are starting a second flock and a second yarn and fiber CSA on Patrick’s family farm in New York’s Hudson Valley.
There are many, many reasons for this decision. The first is that we are always looking for ways to make our business more sustainable without over-crowding or diminishing the quality of life for the flock. We realized a while ago that we could pretty easily sell twice as many shares but having twice as many animals on the Vineyard would make our lives immeasurably more complicated. Why? Because we don’t own the land we are farming on the Vineyard. We have a five year lease on our farm at Tisbury Meadows, but the leaseholder- Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank- has the right to make a lot of decision about the number of animals and time we can graze them on the property. They also have the right to terminate our lease if they choose to at anytime, although I don’t think that is really a concern.
Susan goes on to say:
We are purchasing more cormo ewes and angora nannies to start the flock in New York for the NY CSA shareholders. The amount of fiber current shareholders will receive will not be effected at all by the move. Animals that belong to MVFF will continue to belong to MVFF no matter where they are pastured. The new animals will belong to Hudson Valley Fiber Farm, as will some of the kids born to the MVFF nanny goats in the spring. The most important thing is for everyone to know that their will be plenty of fiber to go around!
If you currently own a share in Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm but live in New York, you are more than welcome to come visit the NY flock anytime. In fact, all shareholder’s are welcome at either farm anytime. The new farm will have an on-site yarn shop housed in an old church that Patrick and I own and it will be stocked with lots of handspun, local farmstead yarns and spinning fibers and indie dyed yarns.
Erin and I have a lot of cleaning to do to get it ready to open and we are having a wood stove put in to make it ultra-cozy, but our goal is to have an open house/holiday party at the end of November/early December and hope that lots of you will be able to come.
[For those of you from NYC, the farm is located right off the Taconic Parkway, near the Beacon train stop on Metro North.]“
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More big news: The MV Fiber Farm has won the Tech Makeover contest.
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Congratulations to Susan and Patrick, we wish you well. We’ll definitely see you at both fiber farms.
