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 [...]
Brien O’Brien and his wife Mary Hasten make their primary residence in Chicago but have been seasonal residents of Martha’s Vineyard since the 1980s. Brien is Chairman and CEO of Port Capital, a global investment management firm which manages domestic and developed markets global equity strategies. In addition to his career in the financial industry [...]
By Adam R. Moore “I want a Pulaski.” “You don’t need a Pulaski.” “Well, you asked me what I wanted for Christmas, and that’s what I want.” “Look,” said Melissa, my exasperated wife. “You are not a wildland firefighter. We don’t live out west. You’re not going to use it.” “Well, that’s what I want. [...]
Paul Buckley is an amateur historian who has, for a few years, conducted volunteer metal-detecting work on the grounds of the Hancock-Mitchell House at Quansoo Farm. Mr. Buckley finds coins, buttons, hardware, and various other metal items of interest, and gives all of his finds to Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation. A few years ago, Mr. Buckley [...]
Some of the Vineyard’s youngest residents spent the fall exploring various Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation properties. The MV Family Center, a MV Community Services program that supports and connects Island families with young children, partnered with SMF for a series of thematic Monday morning outings. This collaborative program, called “Out and About,” was originally scheduled for [...]
SMF Board of Directors met for a two-day “offsite” retreat on October 22 and 23, 2021, at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury. The retreat was held to listen, share ideas, and engage in discussion, all aimed at forming a new five-year strategic plan for Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation. The retreat was well-attended, with 28 of [...]
When walking in the Vineyard woods in spring, summer, or fall, we mostly notice the leaves: the pale uncurling new ones, the thick canopy of green ones, the yellow and brown ones signaling wintertime. But in the winter, a whole new world engages our attention: the lime-colored haze of the lichens that coat every boulder [...]
