Editors’ Note: This marks the second year for the Gazette to sponsor Sophomores Speak Out, a special current events feature written by the...
Here is a sobering fact: we live on an Island and the sea is rising. The consensus among coastal scientists is that our children or grandchildren...
Anglers and Their Fish By Red Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist for the New York Times and a Chilmark seasonal visitor for nearly...
Still On Time The Chappaquiddick Ferry, that tidy, profitable and often forgotten enterprise which plies the tideswept entrance to the Edgartown...
Beacons of History They stand tall and straight on the horizon, an enduring symbol of the Island’s long and rich maritime history. Viewed from a...
As I knew Lenny Jason he was a working man’s man, a man of strong opinions which he aired freely to anyone who would listen. He always had the...
DEEP TROUBLE Editors, Vineyard Gazette: If Laurie David and C. Dean Metropolous think that they are stewards of the environment, we are in deep,...
TIMMY’S TREE Editors, Vineyard Gazette: Regarding Mrs. Whipple’s tree named for her son Timmy, which was mutilated by the construction of a...
DESPERATELY NEEDED Editors, Vineyard Gazette: After four years of being on the Chilmark housing committee and with a success rate of one home...
From the Sept. 12, 1958 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
Ancients of half a century ago would shake their heads at mention of Nab’s Corner and mutter that the place was not what it was, or words to that effect, because, as they explained, the Eel-pot no longer stood there. And when some youthful hearer asked what the Eel-pot may have been those same elders “closed their hatches” with abruptness and said no more.
