West Tisbury
Cynthia Riggs and Howard Attebery's love story has captured hearts and imaginations around the country. On Saturday they were wed at the West Tisbury Congregational Church.Mark Alan Lovewell
Sealed with a kiss, Mr. Attebery and Ms. Riggs are pronounced husband and wife.Mark Alan Lovewell
Pews of West Tisbury Congregational Church were packed with family, friends and members of Island community.Mark Alan Lovewell
Ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Arlene Bodge.Mark Alan Lovewell
Brothers Frank and Peter Dunkl provided musical prelude.Mark Alan Lovewell
After decades apart, recitation of vows.Mark Alan Lovewell
Soloist Tsilala Graham-Haynes performs during ceremony, which also included singing of hymns.Mark Alan Lovewell
Bride reads Silver Anniversary, a poem written by her mother, Dionis Coffin Riggs.Mark Alan Lovewell
At 81 and 91, respectively, couple prepare to start new life together as husband and wife.Mark Alan Lovewell
Ann Fielder, Ms. Riggs's older sister, played cello during service.Mark Alan Lovewell
Reception at the family home, Cleaveland House. The house has been in the family for over 250 years.Mark Alan Lovewell
Guests packed the Cleaveland House for reception.Mark Alan Lovewell
Mark Attebery, best man and son of groom, deliveres champagne toast.Mark Alan Lovewell
Plenty of lemonade and gifts for the happy couple.
Rainy weather moved reception gathering indoors, but did little to dampen celebrants' spirits.Mark Alan Lovewell
Members of community, including organist and pianist Mark Wright and trumpeter Ed Rodgers, entertained guests.Mark Alan Lovewell
Theirs is a love story for the ages that has been celebrated far beyond the Island's shorelines.Mark Alan Lovewell
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Cynthia Riggs and Howard Attebery were married Saturday before a crowd of family, friends and well-wishers in the West Tisbury Congregational Church, adding a long-awaited chapter to a love story...
Burnt toast.
It was the meal that made Michael Compean’s mother certain her son would someday be a chef. Scrambled eggs and burnt toast.
It was Mother’s Day in 1988. Michael Compean was 10 years old...
West Tisbury school principal Michael Halt will leave the Vineyard at the end of the school year to take a job as a high school principal in California.
Mr. Halt, who has served as principal at the...
Celebrations
The following students were named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for the fall 2012 semester:
Warren Gowell, Tiffany A. Johnson, William Jurczyk-Villota, Liam McCarthy...
Anna Luckey and Billy Bradley of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Isla Luckey Bradley, born on April 19 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Isla weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces at birth.
Anna Hughes of West Tisbury was named to the fall 2012 dean’s list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Obituaries
James Flight Alley, 81, former West Tisbury postmaster and selectman, conservationist and life-long Democrat, real estate broker, horse dealer, farmer, new- and used-car salesman, and owner, with his...
Judge Benjamin Lee Bird of Washington, Va. , a longtime West Tisbury seasonal resident, died of congestive heart failure at his Virginia home, Horseshoe Hollow Farm, on April 16. He was 95.