Commentary
Least terns have nested on the Vineyard for as long as I can remember. According to Ludlow Griscom and Guy Emerson, the least terns of the Vineyard...
In his commentary in last Friday’s Gazette, Prof . Lawrence Harrison made several observations and presumptions about the episode between Prof....
TONE DOWN RHETORIC
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Much is being made of the recent arrest of Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his own home in...
Zachariah Howwoswee Jr. was the last Aquinnah preacher to speak to his flock in his native language, Wôpanâak. By the early 19th century, there...
Blueberry Obsession
Notebook on an Auction
It was a splendid night, this first Monday in August, and a splendid new venue for the annual Possible Dreams auction: an...
Clocking the Turkey
From Gazette editions of August, 1934:
On the evening of Wednesday, July 29, the Vineyard Conservation Society presented a public information forum titled Ponds in Peril. Several...
Story Misses the Mark
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Regarding the recent Gazette article title: “Bikram Yoga Puts Sweat Over Spirituality in a...
CORMORANTS AND FAIR GAME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Perhaps Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop’s choice of words and his efforts to diminish the population...
Continuing the Conversation on Race
On and off, for almost 50 years, my family and I have been returning to the Island for at least one month every summer. My first rental in 1962 — a...