Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is pursuing renewal of Land Trust Accreditation Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is pleased to announce that it is pursuing renewal of accreditation through the land trust accreditation program. Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation invites the public to comment on the Foundation’s application. The purpose of the land trust accreditation program is to inspire excellence, promote [...]
Board President Henry Beetle Hough was by no means a rich man, but like all of us who read this newsletter, he was a man who appreciated the beauty of the Island and cared deeply for it. In December of 1958, Hough, an Edgartown resident and the editor of the Vineyard Gazette, took the proceeds [...]
On the year concluded June 30, 2019 Thanks to strong support from our donors, continued donations of land, and the hard work and dedication of our volunteers and staff and contractors, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation ended its fiscal year on June 30, 2019 in strong form. The past year featured the creation of new sanctuaries, expansion [...]
Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation successfully completed phase one of our For Future Generations capital campaign during fiscal 2019 and in July 2019 launched the public part of the campaign. We also received several generous gifts of land during the year, including the magnificent Champ property on Chappaquiddick. With these contributions, along with the continued generous support [...]
By Kristen Geagan 2019 was a busy year for Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation’s educational initiatives. At the Edgartown School, Samantha Look, SMF education coordinator, and I worked with thirteen students in the Fifth Grade Enrichment Program. This program is an educational, project-based learning class. “Community experts in various fields of study are invited into the classroom [...]
Hillary Noyes-Keene grew up in rural upstate New York and summered on Martha’s Vineyard, which led to a true love of landforms and nature. She attended Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, graduating with a degree in fine arts and elementary education and continued her education at the University of Colorado, Denver, graduating with dual [...]
by Kate Feiffer Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year a day after a torrential rainstorm, the likes of which my Vineyard-raised husband says he has never seen, washed away a swatch of land under Lambert’s Cove Road. Thunberg, as readers of this newsletter likely know, is the young climate change activist [...]
by Adam Moore In preparing for a presentation in New York City in the spring of 2019, I came across an online reference to a collection of materials relating to Henry Beetle Hough at Columbia University. Intrigued, I found that Edith Blake had donated more than 50 boxes of Mr. Hough’s archives to Columbia University. [...]
by Adam R. Moore “Where are you taking us, Dad?” So asked my children, seeming a bit nervous. It was a full moon, on a beautiful summer night. I had mustered the children on the front lawn, and had asked them to accompany me on a walk in the moonlight. Showing a bit less appreciation [...]
The SMF Newsletter recently sat down with Hillary Noyes-Keene for an update on the Master Plan projects she’s been working on. Below are her remarks, edited for space and clarity. The Master Plan committee was formed in 2017, after Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation held a Strategic Plan retreat, during which board members were asked to speak [...]
