Shark sighting a hoax!

Yes it's true, someone wanted to get their 15 min of fame and decided to create a story about not only one, but two 22' sharks....

Here's the article.

Boston Globe.com

Great White shark sighting off the coast of Martha's Vineyard

I guess we can't catch a break on the little island that could. The Summer is here and now we have several spottings of a 17' Great White shark off the coast. In the day and age of the internet I found these two links for everyone. Hell we even made FOX news.

Of course I heard this the old fashioned way, via a friend who works for the police department. This is all sounding very familiar.

MV Times article

Fox news report

Of course I recently started kayaking again and am not going to let this slow me down. I'll just need a bigger boat.

Bunch of Grapes & Cafe Moxie July 4th fire

My brother on the line.




July 4th is a day for fireworks, bbqs', going to the beach, watching "Jaws" for the 100th time and celebrating the Declaration of Independence. But today on Martha's Vineyard, July 4th will now be synonymous with a fire that destroyed two landmarks which date back to the early 1800's.

History of Main Street Vineyard Haven

Martha's Vineyard Gazette fire coverage

MV Times fire coverage

Video from Plum TV 

Friends of mine, some close and some I haven't seen in years were all there today watching the fire rip through these two buildings. Some of my friends work at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore and some are the firefighters who put out the blaze, including my brother. 

No one was killed and only one minor injury occurred from a firefighter which was amazing since the blaze started at 9:15am on a busy warm sunny day- on a little island known to most where they filmed "Jaws" almost 35 years ago or where the Clintons and the Kennedy's vacation. 

But to us who have lived here all our lives and for people who have been coming here for nearly that long or longer. It's a little humbling to see a place where you walk by everyday to pick up the paper or to sit on the bench parked in-front of Cafe Moxie now all gone. 

Tomorrow all that will be left is the charred remains of a history forgotten.