Preservation vs. Legal Nightmare As the clamor grows louder in Oak Bluffs around the Veira Park baseball project, a few key points are important...
Last Draggers in Menemsha The Quitsa Strider II sits rusting at the dock in Menemsha. Her skipper Jonathan Mayhew, who has devoted his life to...
Street Art With Heart In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy asks perhaps the most famous scarecrow of all, “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”...
Old Houses, Living History There is something sad about an old house being torn down; it’s like a friendship that suddenly disappears, leaving...
Wind Futures At a time when the economic and ecological costs of fossil fuels continue to climb, Vineyarders are growing interested in the power...
Fall Days Autumn weather this year has been nonstop Indian summer, with mild temperatures conducive to all the best the Vineyard has to offer:...
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 July 24, 1973 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
You can still waltz in Oak Bluffs’ nightspots, and you can still hear some good piano, but from now on you won’t be able to boogie or rock and roll in drinking places. Loud rock bands are banned henceforth in Oak Bluffs bars and lounges.
