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Look Ma, No Corners: Pastoral Gay Head Knows No Boundaries

Peter Ochs

4:50 pm, July 25, 2011
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Commentary, Gazette Chronicle

Tuesday Chronicle: Weather or Not

Cynthia Meisner

From Gazette summer editions: It’s one of those odd things that the northeast wind which, most of the year, produces three days — at least — of...

4:49 pm, July 25, 2011
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Commentary, Books & Ideas

And the Ocean, Always the Ocean

Stand here and there, old Vineyard homes, All wrapped in deep content. — Emma Mayhew Whiting They’re painting all the houses white in Edgartown...

8:45 pm, July 21, 2011
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Dipping the Port Light for Love

Peter Ochs

Some years back, my wife and I rented a tiny little cottage in Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard. It was called the Binnacle. According to a story we...

8:43 pm, July 21, 2011
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Off the Beaten Path, Wind Power Helps Keep the Lights On

Robert Skydell

Ometepe is as unlikely a place as you could ever imagine to catch a glimpse of the future. Although unique in the world, an island composed of two...

8:40 pm, July 21, 2011
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State of Civil Liberties Is Gauge of Freedom

Carol Rose

Vineyard residents have a unique op portunity next Thursday, July 28, to assess the state of civil liberties and justice in America as we approach...

8:34 pm, July 21, 2011
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Breath of Life

Praise and thanks to two women administering CPR and telephoning for help when I fell unconscious on a walk near Ripley’s Field in Tisbury.

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Letters to the Editor

Cleaveland House Poets

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cleaveland House Poets, it seems an opportune time to thank William Waterway publicly for his role in...

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Letters to the Editor

Reading the Fine Print on Tisbury Zoning Rules

To protect the character of our community, Tisbury residents should attend a Tisbury Zoning Board of Appeals hearing to protest a controversial,...

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Gazette Chronicle

A Toothsome Shellfish

From the May 23, 1952 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

If you were to choose any one Island occupation that was peculiar to the Vineyard and the coastal area surrounding it, scalloping would undoubtedly run a strong race for first place. Over the years Edgartown probably comes up with the largest consistent average catch of all the Island towns, and during the season which ended on April 1 of this year well over 200 residents of this town had at one time or another been engaged in taking this toothsome shellfish.