Protected Lands and Special Places
ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD
Published by the Land Protection Fund for Martha’s Vineyard,
a component of the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard,
The Island’s Community Foundation.
“In Praise of Protected Lands and Special Places on Martha’s Vineyard” celebrates Tess Bramhall’s love of many of her favorite places on the Vineyard and tells the story of how they were created and preserved for public enjoyment and the conservation of natural resources. Profusely illustrated with paintings by her husband Kib and their friends Stan Murphy, Allen Whiting, Rez Williams, Andrew Moore plus a Ruth Kirchmeier woodcut and many photographs by David Foster, Everett Bramhall, Kathy Newman and Nicole Friedler.
Tess Bramhall, who has had a lifelong interest in land conservation, has lived on the Vineyard with her husband, Kib, for 64 years, the last four decades of which has been as year-round residents.
Her love of the Vineyard’s natural beauty and her commitment to helping protect it was a key factor in her becoming a board member and then president of Vineyard Conservation Society, a volunteer for The Nature Conservancy’s Vineyard Office and then a TNC Mass. Chapter Trustee, a founding member of the MV Conservation Partnership in 1997 and a very long time supporter of both the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation and The Trustees of Reservations.
In Praise Of Protected Lands and Special Places on Martha’s Vineyard celebrates her love of some of her favorite places and tells the story of how they were created and preserved. She includes Kib Bramhall’s paintings, as well as many other paintings, photos and a woodcut by her friends.
When her grandchildren were young, she wrote an illustrated “Ty Loves Flowers,” a “Toddlers Environmental Awareness” book.
