September on the Vineyard, partaking as it does of both summer and fall, pulls us in two directions at once. For Islanders, there's not a sweeter phrase in the language than "September weather." When the mercury drops five degrees and the dew point plummets thirty, we know that summer is easing its humid grip. Just as the view suddenly opens and extends, haze-free, to the far horizon, we glimpse a future in which the rhythms of working life on the Island will begin to change.