From the April 19, 1985 edition by Richard Reston:
What if you wrote you are God’s elect, self-chosen to bring order into a “new world,” settled by natives seen as stray commas, or apostrophes,...
On Nov. 15, 1969, a million peo ple, give or take a few hundred thousand, marched on Washington to protest the war in Vietnam. It was my first major...
Editor’s Note: The following piece by Polly Woollcott Murphy was published in the Gazette on Dec. 2, 1983. Mrs. Murphy, who began writing for the...
Living and raising a family on Martha’s Vineyard for the last 11 years has provided me with a broad knowledge of local charitable organizations,...
A Last Relic From Gazette editions of November, 1959:
T he rich are different from you and me,” Scott Fitzgerald once said to Ernest Hemingway. “Yes,” Ernest replied, “they have more money.” Scott...
I was extremely impressed with Elaine Weintraub’s results from her high school classes voting during our last election. The young women’s concerns...
A week ago I made a wager and lost. I bet an acquaintance that Mitt Romney would win the election. It reminded me of a story I read a long time ago....
After visiting my wife’s childhood home at Rockaway Beach last week in Queens, and seeing how devastated that seaside community was, I was grateful...