Topic: Plum 98

by Gwyn McAllister

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Executive director of the Island Housing Trust.

Philippe Jordi is the executive director of the Island Housing Trust, a non-profit community land trust on Martha’s Vineyard. Jordi has a BS in Environmental Studies from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

by Gwyn McAllister

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Island-born artist has earned reknown for his MV landscapes and still
tends the sheep farm that's been in his family for generations.

Allen Whiting, born on Martha's Vineyard in 1946, grew up by the landscape he loves to paint. He has a degree in studio painting from Windham College in Vermont. He lives in West Tisbury on his family sheep farms, one partly shaded by stately old elm and maple trees, and the other partly overlooking the Atlantic Ocean; both have been in his family for generations. The farm continues today as a tradition in stewardship, overseen by Allen and his extended family.

by Gwyn McAllister

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Boat designer/builder has a passion for sailing that he loves to share with other enthusiasts.

Nat Benjamin began profiting from his passion back in 1980, when he founded Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway together with Ross Gannon. At their “funky, friendly boatyard” on the beach at Martha’s Vineyard, Benjamin and Gannon build and repair wooden sailing boats.

David McCullough - whose biography John Adams won the Pulitzer Prize, the American Academy of Diplomacy Award, the Christopher Award, the Revolutionary Roundtable Prize, and was the New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice - has been called a “master of the art of narrative history.”

Matthew Stackpole has been immersed in history for most of his life. Matthew's father was a maritime historian and curator for Mystic Seaport.

A historian, Dr. Elaine Cawley Weintraub, is co-founder of the Martha's Vineyard African American Heritage Trail, a model public history project and physical trail. She chairs the history department at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, and involves her students as research assistants, journalists and muralists.