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...Most energy-hungry Americans hope the oilmen find what they are looking for. Anne Simon will be satisfied if they do not make what she considers a bad situation even worse. A veteran coast watcher, Simon has already written an impassioned plea for the preservation of Martha's Vineyard. In her newest book, she appeals just as ardently for an end to the steady destruction of the world's coastlines...
Shubow said he believed the outcome of the trial will have a "psychological, not a precedental effect" on other Indian lawsuits in Rhode Island and Martha's Vineyard, as well as on a separate attempt by the Mashpee Wamponoags to gain federal regulation of their tribal status by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Tureen, the attorney for the Gay Head Wamponoags, said he could not predict the effect of the Mashpee decision on the Martha's Vineyard case in which the Wamponoags of Gay Head are claiming 200 acres of land in Gay Head. He added the difference between the two cases is that "the people have a disposition to resolve the matter...
...boxes of Irish peat ($14.90), which one Rhode Islander is advertising as Yule fuel. This year one can even buy a turkey dinner-buy dinner, that is, for Meleagris gallapavo, the American wild turkey. The offer comes from the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, where as many as 650 wild ducks, geese and turkeys peck through 200 Ibs. of corn, oats, wheat and high-protein dog food at a sitting...
Benmarl, a Hudson Valley vineyard, was first planted in the mid-1800s and replanted in the '60s. Its new vintner, who grows both hybrids and vinifera, is Mark Miller, 58, a former magazine illustrator. He has successfully financed his operation by forming a Société des Vignerons, a group of people who for an initial fee as high as $500, plus up to $50 a year, buy "vine-rights"-two vines-and are entitled to twelve bottles of Benmarl wine annually The 900 members of the société also get first choice on all other...