During the summer of 2022, Owen Favreau will be joining the Sheriff’s Meadow staff as a Henry Beetle Hough intern, to perform an energy and carbon emissions audit for all Sheriff’s Meadow properties. Owen will focus on the carbon emissions associated with Sheriff’s Meadow vehicle usage, as well as evaluating the electric and gas bills [...]
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation welcomes Catherine Hall as our Advancement Coordinator. Catherine was born and raised in New Bedford, MA and has lived year-round on the Island since 2018. Having worked with Island organizations like the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and the Chilmark Community Center, as well as various other off-Island museums and nonprofit [...]
After five and a half years of dedicated service, Susan Hughes retired from her position of Development Associate at the end of May, 2022. Susan joined the staff in October of 2016, just as Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation had begun the quiet phase of its comprehensive “For Future Generations” campaign. Susan devotedly supported all aspects of [...]
From the Executive Director, Adam R. Moore Click here to listen to a bobwhite quail. Bob...WHITE! A bobwhite? Could it be? Startled, I stopped my work and sat still for a moment. Then, again: Bob...WHITE! “A bobwhite!” I exclaimed, and dashed out the door to listen. In all my years of living at [...]
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation will be leading two walks during the summer months for members of our Henry Beetle Hough Society. These walks are offered for donors who contribute $500 or more in a given fiscal year. The gatherings are scheduled to start at 9 am on the following Thursdays: To register and get directions contact [...]
By Kate Feiffer To help Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation supporters identify invasive species and to learn about what SMF is doing to control their spread, the SMF newsletter has been running a series of articles focused on invasive species found on the Vineyard. Glossy buckthorn, Frangula alnus Photo by Eli-Sagor It’s not known exactly [...]
Winter 2022 Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation staff has closely monitored the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest during 2021, per an agreement that was reached in June, 2021, between Sheriff’s Meadow and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (“DCR”). Under the agreement, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation conducted two types of monitoring. First, Sheriff’s Meadow completed a comprehensive [...]
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation is delighted to announce that Dr. Thomas Hallahan has joined the staff as the Senior Director for Administration, Advancement, and Finance. Hallahan will oversee the organizational details of the land trust. He will be working closely with SMF Executive Director, Adam Moore, as well as the organization’s Board of Directors and donors. [...]
Hariette Otteson Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation expresses its profound gratitude to Harriette P. Otteson for her bequest of land with a house at 86 Menemsha Crossroad in Chilmark. In 2007, Harriette Otteson decided that she would leave to Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation her home at 86 Menemsha Crossroad, and she also gave to Sheriff’s Meadow [...]
By Bill Wilcox What tales they would tell! Oh, but they can speak, if you can read their language. It’s a language of enormous time and the depths from which they came. It is their bands of color and minerals that tell the tale. It speaks of convulsions in the earth’s interior involving intrusions of [...]
