Vineyard Power Co-operative Vineyard Power Co-operative Vineyard Power Co-operative is "a community owned renewable energy co-operative based on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts." Vineyard Power develops local renewable energy projects and plans to assist the island of Martha's Vineyard to meet the energy goals of the Island Plan, and work towards a 100% renewable energy supply. The founding of Vineyard Power was inspired by the renewable energy vision of the people of Samso island in Denmark. Offshore wind development is another of the motivations for creating the Vineyard Power Co-op, with the recognition this energy source would need community support. The National
Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate Ingrid Goff and volunteers would set up linen covered tables with candles and small vases of flowers at the Unitarian Universalist Church – and would feature intimate evenings of poetry accompanied by musical interludes. On similar note during the early 1980s, the furniture store, Vineyard Decorators, which was located on State Road in Vineyard Haven at the old Coca Cola bottling plant, established for a brief time an "invitation only" poetry lounge. Poets would gather for intimate recitals on expensive furnishings arranged as a living room setting. During the early 1900s, the up-island home of Dionis Coffin Riggs (1898–1997) –