Bertie ‘Buck’ Abbott, 88, Retired Bridge Tunnel Policeman
August 17, 2013
Bertie “Buck” Abbott, Jr., 88, husband of Thelma Lewis Abbott and a resident of Cheriton, passed away Friday, August 16, at his residence.
The funeral will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, August 20, at Cheriton United Methodist Church with the Rev. Patricia Money officiating. Interment will follow in Cape Charles Cemetery with Masonic Rites. Family will join friends at Wilkins-Doughty Funeral Home 6-7:30 p.m. Monday.
Mr. Abbott was born March 16, 1925, in Townsend, the son of the late Bertie O. Abbott, Sr., and the late Manie Costin Abbott. He was a retired Sargent for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Police, member of Cheriton United Methodist Church, Cheriton Volunteer Fire Company and Capeville Masonic Lodge #107 AF & AM. [Read more…]
SATURDAY: Experimental Dance Film Screenings
“Viviana” — From one of the original 3-minute films made in Cape Charles during the past two weeks.
Special to the Cape Charles Wave
August 17, 2013
Saturday (August 17) at 8 p.m., 11 new dance films made right here in Cape Charles will be screened at the Palace Theatre as part of the inaugural Harbor for the Arts Festival.
Artists from New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Italy, as well as all over the United States have gathered for a two-week workshop directed and facilitated by Renata Sheppard and produced and managed by Paolo Armao, who is also serving as the Sound Design faculty.
The guest of honor and guest faculty and mentor is Noémie Lafrance, an award-winning site specific choreographer and dance filmmaker based in New York. She was choreographer for one of Justin Timberlake’s music videos and for the Grammy-nominated music video for the song 1,2,3,4 by Feist.
These 11 filmmakers have been waking up at 6 a.m. and staying up well past Cinderella’s bedtime in order to make these films that exist in an emerging category of experimental film called Dance for the Camera (also known as Screen Dance or Video Dance or Dance Film). After their debut at the Palace Theatre, many of these films will possibly be screened at film festivals all over the world. [Read more…]
FRIDAY: Last Chance to See IViR Danza at Palace Theatre
August 16, 2013
IViR Danza, after receiving rave reviews for its August 3 performance, returns to the Cape Charles Historic Palace Theatre 7 p.m. tonight (August 16).
Led by company founder and director Irma Cardano, IViR Danza dance intends to pursue its own language and gestures inspired by the philosophy of contemporary dance but processed through new and avant-garde linguistic elements.
The intention is to describe current issues through dance deducing them from the outside world and from everyday reality.
A reviewer of the August 3 production in Cape Charles described it as “a world-class performance.”
Tickets are $12 adults, $5 students. The event is part of the Cape Charles Harbor for the Arts Festival August 3-18.
REVIEW: An Evening of Civil War Spies and Love Letters
By WAYNE CREED
August 15, 2013
Last night the Palace Theatre hosted an evening of Civil War history. This was most appropriate and timely, given last week’s presentation at the Cape Charles Museum finding Shore people complicit in the 1863 raid on the Cape Charles Lighthouse (Click for story). Last night included its own intrigue, with master storyteller Lynn Ruehlmann relating the tale “Spy! The story of Civil War Spy Elizabeth Van Lew.”
Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most effective Union spies during the Civil War. Born to a prominent Richmond family, she lived with her widowed mother in a three-story mansion on Church Hill in the Confederate capital. Educated in the North, Van Lew took pride in her Richmond roots, but she fervently opposed slavery and secession, writing her thoughts in a secret diary she kept buried in her backyard and whose existence she would reveal only on her deathbed. [Read more…]
‘Art on the Move’ at Stage Door Gallery
“Art on the Move” paintings from the 757 Plein Air paint out will be on display in the Stage Door Gallery, 301 Mason Avenue, through September 1. [Read more…]
Malvina Hancock Savage, 84, D.A.R. Member
August 15, 2013
Malvina Hancock Savage, 84, wife of James Thomas Savage and a resident of Cape Charles, passed away Wednesday, August 14, at her residence.
A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to Holmes Presbyterian Church, P.O. 258, Cheriton, Va. 23316 or to Hospice and Palliative Care of the Eastern Shore, 165 Market Street, Suite #3, Onancock, Va. 23417.
A native of Morganfield, Ky., Mrs. Savage was the daughter of the late Aaron Clements Hancock and the late Elizabeth Davis Hancock. She was a member of Daughters of the American Revolution, the Garden Club of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and Holmes Presbyterian Church. [Read more…]
Opera Stars Eastern Shore Soprano at Palace Theatre
Thursday, August 15, at 8 p.m. — Where Go the Boats? at Historic Palace Theatre (Adults $15/Students $8). Opera with Anna Sterrett accompanied by Oksana Lutsyshyn. Water songs of Quilter, Schubert, Faure, Stravinsky, Hoiby and Lego.
ANNA STERRETT
A native of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Soprano Anna Sterrett is quickly distinguishing herself as a consummate singing actress. She is characterized by her uniquely warm timbre, fearless coloratura, and charismatic stage presence. These gifts combine to make her particularly suited for Bellini, Donizetti, Mozart, and Richard Strauss.
Ms. Sterrett is equally at home on the concert stage where she has performed the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Gonoud, and Ravel to critical acclaim. She has also garnered respect as an interpreter of new music having premiered the role of Corrie in Ernst Bacon’s A Tree on the Plains and James Lego’s Two Songs of the Sea, which she will perform in the University of North Carolina’s New Music Festival next month.
Recent appearances of Ms. Sterrett include Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte¸ a role in which she will reprise with Opera Roanoke in October.
$18,000 Library Computer ‘Fine’ Overturned on Appeal
Computers in the new Cape Charles Memorial Library are the most-used feature. (Wave photo)
By GEORGE SOUTHERN
Cape Charles Wave
August 15, 2013
A demand by a state authority that the Town of Cape Charles return an $18,000 grant has been overturned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The controversy surrounded the purchase by the Town of 20 computers with federal block grant money. Following an anonymous complaint to a HUD fraud hotline claiming that the computers were not available to the public, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development conducted an investigation.
As a result of the investigation, the Virginia DHCD required the Town to return the grant money. Town Manager Heather Arcos appealed the decision April 25, declaring that “An erroneous statement made by an unidentified person does not change the facts. Obviously, the library is not open yet and the computer lab is not open in its normal fulltime schedule right now, so therefore would appear to be unoccupied.”
The DHCD then made another unscheduled site visit May 1, finding the computer lab still not accessible to the public. The DHCD reiterated its demand that the Town return the grant money. [Read more…]
