West Chop Club “One Bad Crab”
TWI Members are invited to attend the West Chop Club showing of "One Bad Crab" noted below. (TWI membership is reserved for donors who have made a contribution of $50 or more. Everyone receiving this email is currently on our list as members, but don't forget to make your 2025 contribution if you haven't done so already.)
"One Bad Crab" debuted at the MV Film Center in March. For those of you who were off-island, here's your chance to see this informative film.
For more information on the film, check out the article in the TWI Summer 2025 newsletter, available online. (Click the link.) For more background, there's another article in the TWI Winter 2024-2025 newsletter, available online by scrolling down on the Home Page at the TWI website (see past newsletters).
One Bad Crab
Monday, September 8th 5:30pm Casino
Dear WCC Members,
Mark your calendars for a special event Monday, Sept. 8 at 5:30 in the Casino.
WCC members and your guests are invited to the screening and discussion of One Bad Crab, a provocative film about the invasive green crab. The director, Sandy Cannon-Brown, will lead the discussion.
The Latin name for the European green crab is Carcinus maenas, which translates as “raving mad crab” and gives some insight into the personality of an invasive crustacean with a voracious and wide-ranging appetite that undermines valuable commercial and recreational shellfish resources wherever it appears. What can we make of its presence in Martha’s Vineyard’s bays and ponds, and what can we do about it? Cannon-Brown's curiosity about the green crab was inspired by an article of the same name by Nelson Sigelman in Martha's Vineyard Magazine.
Cannon-Brown is an award-winning environmental filmmaker whose work has taken her throughout New England and the Chesapeake Bay, and to Central and South America, West Africa, the Northern Great Plains of Montana, and the Everglades. Before moving to Martha's Vineyard in 2020, she lived in St. Michaels, MD and made 9 critically acclaimed films about subjects important to the Chesapeake Bay. One Bad Crab is her first film focusing on New England.
Thank you!
Justin
Justin Mercier
General Manager
West Chop Club