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August 17, 2018

Press Freedom

The Gazette joins this week with hundreds of other newspapers nationwide in outrage over President Trump’s unprecedented vilification of the press.

by Vineyard Gazette Staff

Airport Leader Responds

Your article titled “Airport Seeks Funding for Major Terminal Expansion” was very thorough, however judging by the comments online some readers have some serious misconception about the potential project.

by Letters to the Editor

Bravo

The conductor of the Vineyard Haven Band, Julie Schilling, is to be commended for conducting a memorable concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Band at the Tabernacle on August 9.

by Letters to the Editor

Fair Thee Well

Opening after a three-year lapse because of the war, the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society’s annual fair called the Island population on Friday to convene and to celebrate in time honored fashion.

by Vineyard Gazette Staff

Bearing Down on Beach Road

Beach Road is arguably the Island’s most important road; it is certainly the ugliest. The road fronts a harbor once given almost entirely to maritime uses. Many are gone.

by Craig Whitaker

Vineyard Bookshelf: The Riddle of the Graveyard

THE RIDDLE OF THE GRAVEYARD. By Peter Hufstader, Hedge Fence Press, softcover, illustrated, 180 pages, $18. This maritime adventure story, ostensibly for young people, was inspired by its author’s early sailing years in Vineyard waters some 60 years ago. His Great Whale Island, Little Whale Island and Greta Whale Sound, where the book’s harrowing events…

by Phyllis Meras

Ageless as the Music He Performs

The golden era of reggae and rock-steady gleamed again for two hours at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center August 13, when Toots & the Maytals delighted their audience with a concert featuring many Jamaican hits from the 1960s and 1970s.

by Louisa Hufstader

Women Write the World Discussion

All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World is an anthology featuring 69 female authors. On Wednesday, August 22, the voices of four of those authors will join together, not in song, but rather as part of a panel discussion.

by Katherine Gianni

Where Darkness Lurks on the Vineyard

Widow’s Wreath, Cynthia Riggs’ most recent book and the 14th in the Martha’s Vineyard Mystery installment, has just hit the shelves, and, like most of its predecessors, is partially autobiographical.

by Noah Asimow

Advancement Project Looks to 2018 Elections

At a discussion organized by the Advancement Project, panelists noted that the event fell on the fourth anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager fatally shot during a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

by Steve Myrick

Roundup Round Up

When I first began writing this column over 10 years ago, I had some sort of rant about one thing or another.

by Lynne Irons

Grand Illumination Tonight

At sundown the gingerbread houses of the Camp Ground will glow with the light of thousands of lanterns, part of a summertime tradition in Oak Bluffs.

by Julia Wells

Edgartown Town Column: August 17

Once again, it is raining for the first time in days. The ground is screaming for rain. I put some plants in the ground and, only an inch into the digging, I hit powder soil.

by Kathie Case

Aquinnah Town Column: August 17

Hope the warm weather will last another eight weeks for those of us who would like a little beach time after the crowds have left and our summer schedules are a little less hectic.

by June D. Manning

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