Milokan Cultural Center
The farm is collaborating with Rick Bausman and Rhythm of Life to host the Milokan Cultural Center. With a focus on healing rhythms, you may find local and visiting musicians at work, students of drumming, and a wide range of community building activities. In many cultures, drumming and dancing are considered important tools of agriculture, and we are interested to see how the farm responds. For their schedule, check out: www.drumrol.org
Please email: rick@drumrol.org
Or call: +1 508 627-3786
The address is:
Rhythm of Life
PO Box 3000 PMB 3172
West Tisbury, MA 02575
USA
Welcome to the African-American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard
We are the builders of the African-American Heritage trail on Martha’s Vineyard. Read more.
In the heart of Chilmark, about 130 people gathered at the Native Earth Teaching Farm for the unveiling of a new metal sculpture to honor Rebecca Amos, a West African woman who was enslaved in the 1700s on Martha’s Vineyard.
The sculpture, made by local artist Barney Zeitz, is the latest addition to the African American Heritage Trail.
The Original
Telephone of the Wind
Created by Itaru Sasaki
The Phone of the Wind was created in Japan by its creator, Itaru Sasaki, while grieving his cousin who died of cancer. He purchased an old-fashioned phone booth and set it up in his garden. He installed an obsolete rotary phone not connected to wires or any “earthly system.” Here, Itaru felt a continued connection to his cousin and found comfort and healing amid his grief. Itaru gave his phone booth a name, Kaze No Denwa (風の電話), translated as The Telephone of the Wind.
The following year, in 2011, an earthquake (9.1 magnitude) resulted in a tsunami with 30-foot waves that obliterated the coast of Japan, destroying entire towns and taking thousands of lives. Many were swept out to sea, and their bodies never recovered. The city of Ōtsuchi is recorded with the highest number of missing persons. The tsunami’s catastrophic ocean waves destroyed the town; its people were left in ruins by the tsunami of grief thrust upon them.