What have I done? I’m sitting at my desk, looking at a furiously flapping pigeon that I didn’t think would live through the night.
From the May 9, 1958 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
The Cardinals came to breakfast On the morning I was born
If you come from far away or someplace closer by
Welcome aboard we said when the mainlanders came offering big bucks for our family land, old houses, barns.
In response to the global pandemic, we have all been asked to slow down and take a break from life as we know it.
I don’t think it was until I stood under a lynching tree in Selma, Ala. that I really stepped into my white privilege
Tonight in the town election for Tisbury, myself and three others were denied our right to vote.
As we enjoy the beauties of our Island home this summer, we need to remember that the Covid-19 coronavirus is not on vacation.
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.
