Finally You Don’t Come / Your return is temporary — just a few days / Or less.
I have felt for many years that on Martha’s Vineyard, I belong.
At the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market, an impromptu conversation popped up between two strangers standing in line waiting to buy bread.
From the August 5, 1949 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
The significance of age 60 / Is to be young again / Without the weight of youth / So it is with Barack Obama.
It’s been many years since I last went to the Gay Head Cliffs at dawn on August 6 for the annual Hiroshima Remembrance Day ceremony.
My wife and I have been coming to the Vineyard in the summer for 40 years, and we have owned a summer home on the Island since 1985.
I want to thank the Gazette for showcasing Eric Adam’s journey from awareness to action on the issues of systemic racism in our country and more...
On behalf of the MV Peace Council and of MV Friends Meeting (Quakers) I thank Jeff Scheuer for his perceptive observations in last week’s Gazette.
From the Oct. 2, 1942 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
Although the Vineyard joined with New Bedford in mourning the departure of the old whaleship Charles W. Morgan from Round Hills to her new and probably permanent berth at Mystic, Conn., the present aspect of the ancient ship should serve to cheer both places in view of the splendid job that has been done in securing her, and in the promising start that has been made toward her restoration.
