Opinion

Shelter in a Storm

4:39 pm, February 12, 2009
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Splashdown in the Hudson: All a Matter of Choice

Jack Schimmelman

A plane landed in New York city today. The pilot chose the Hudson River as his landing strip. He believes that birds flew into his engines, thus...

10:00 pm, February 5, 2009
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Commentary, Books & Ideas

Quansoo Forest

Quansoo Forest Spiraled, twisted, screwed and swirled, Knobbed and gnarled, hunched and burled, Oaken shapes grotesquely curled, Ever-...

9:59 pm, February 5, 2009
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Commentary

Saving Stripers Will Require Tighter Net of Regulations

Dick Russell

Twenty-five years ago, the striped bass were on the verge of disappearing altogether from our waters. Federal scientists trying to pinpoint a cause...

9:56 pm, February 5, 2009
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Commentary

In My Father’s Mind Are Many Rooms

By HOLLY EGER

I felt a little left out when I saw the pictures in the Gazette a couple of weeks ago of Vineyarders together watching the Presidential...

9:55 pm, February 5, 2009
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Commentary, Gazette Chronicle

Gazette Chronicle: Guns and Suffrage

Guns and Suffrage From the Gazette editions of February, 1909:

9:55 pm, February 5, 2009
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Letters to the Editor

Summer Spectacle

Very often I consider in private how idiosyncratic Island people and culture are. The shark tournament held in Oak Bluffs every year is a case in...

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Letters to the Editor

Tournament of Shame

Shark populations worldwide are in grave peril. Many species of open ocean sharks are in danger of extinction. The spectacle of the Annual Oak Bluffs...