Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Regarding “Always at the Helm, Joe Cressy’s Legacy Unites May 27, 2011.”
I could never take Joe Cressy’s place, but
I can offer what I am. Not the hail fellow
well met Joe sounded from his memorial
article but an honest environmentalist and
dreamer who believes in what
is right and will love Chappaquidick
like I love America.
I’d like to send this and
move there, but I never will.
I visited several times in the
1980s but didn’t get over to
Chappy. I took the paper not long
ago and saw the article. It made me
wish I had led a life like Joe’s.
Everyone seems
“assigned” a life for lack
of a better word. We decide some things but not
our most basic temperments. And others.
I’m going to subscribe to the Vineyard Gazette
again and send the letter.
I guess my place is here
feeding feral cats, food shopping —
reading, writing, listening to
the radio and
caring about the Vineyard,
the world and Chappaquidick
from afar. I saved
the paper to wrap
coffee grounds in
and when I picked it
up I saw Always at the Helm,
Joe Cressy’s Legacy
Unites. Some unions
are late and
not the way you would think.
Bonnie Todd Green, Atlanta, Ga.
This article appears in February 22, 2013.