Commentary
AIRPORT ADVERTISING
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission:
The presentation by...
Autumn Arrives
Gone Fishing: Blog On
It was pioneering filmmaker Robert Altman who described his love of fishing in these words: “You put that line in the water...
One Cottage, So Much History
The Oak Bluffs historical commission is right to speak out frankly in the matter of the Harmon cottage demolition in...
More Explanation Needed
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Chilmark selectmen:
Cuttyhunk island, lying seven miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and 14 off New Bedford, is connected to the coast by one ferry line and the...
Ries Vanderpol was 17 when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, his home country, in 1940. Before the invasion, he had seen Jewish students who...
SAVING THE STRIPERS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Rainy Days, and Busy
Mid-September is when Islanders heave a collective sigh of relief. We hear it in the reclaiming of beaches closed to the...
Drilling Offshore, That Old Song Again
Richard Nixon seems an unlikely hero of conservationists, but he was the President who signed into law what...
One More Slice
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1933:
Compromise at Bradley Square
The neighborhood looks tired and a little run down. The old church is boarded up and empty, while a sagging cottage...