Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Rosemarie Zadikov went to Washington, D.C., to interview James Taylor's older brother Alex and to hear him perform at the Cellar Door in Georgetown. Boston Correspondent Philip Taubman talked with several of Taylor's friends and traveled to Martha's Vineyard to see Younger Brother Hugh Taylor, Alex's wife Brent and her 3½-year-old son, "Sweet Baby" James. In Los Angeles, Sandra Burton interviewed Sister Kate Taylor, Asher and Fellow Musicians Carole King and Danny Kootch. Atlanta Correspondent Peter Range journeyed to Chapel Hill, N.C., to visit with Mother Trudy Taylor...
Whatever the other Taylors do, James, at least, has made his own special music?which is also his own special kind of salvation. He probably always will, if only to throw a sound back to the sea at Martha's Vineyard, where he has just built a house. Between road trips and recording sessions, Alex lives on the island too. So does Kate. So does the youngest Taylor, Hugh, 18, who reportedly has the best male voice in the family but so far prefers to work as a carpenter. "It just may be," says James, pondering the enduring pull...
...district also includes Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...
...first, Chavez's fledgling union seemed to have little chance of success. The growers had powerful political and financial allies in the state, and there was plenty of nonunion labor available to do the ill-paid, back-breaking vineyard work. But in 1968 Chavez applied what turned out to be a brilliant tactic: a nationwide boycott of table grapes. That move mustered wide support from urban liberals and succeeded in cutting the public demand for grapes-and thus the price the growers received-to the point where many producers suffered...
...dangers in confronting the present conservation crisis. One "is to overstate the damage to the environment. The other is to fall into the kind of shoulder-shrugging despair best illustrated by Writer Lillian Hellman when her neighbors sought her help in protecting the island of Martha's Vineyard from a jet airstrip. "Everywhere else has been ruined," she replied. "Why should we be different?" Boyle avoids both pitfalls. Hand-wringing fishermen often exaggerate the ruination of the Hudson by pointing to a lack of salmon. By consulting records and fishery experts, Boyle has established that the Hudson never...