Commentary
He was calling from the police station and he was crying. We had a bad connection, but it sounded as if he were in some awful trouble up in Canada...
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted...
The year is 2008. Georgette drives the van from Montgomery to Selma on U.S. Route 80. As it leaves the city and heads through the country, the...
There was a time in America when debate mattered. It was a period when declamation was standard fare of a youngster’s education, when people knew...
What follows are an edited selection of e-mails sent to the Chilmark planning board from town property owners in advance of the board’s meeting...
Recently, many people have talked to me about the Oak Bluffs roundabout. These talks left me with the impression that many people do not fully...
BEWARE OF COMCAST
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
On Dec. 19, I received a phone call from Comcast offering to reduce the cost of my cable service,...
Editor's Note: Each year, editor Phyllis Meras creates a Christmas poem for the Vineyard.
As a child, the closest I ever came to Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup was through a slide of Andy Warhol’s iconic print in an art history class;...
We occupied Martha’s Vineyard, which wasn’t difficult as we already lived here. Unfortunately nobody thought of OMV until fall when the infamous one...
Juniper
juniperus communis
called jenever by the Dutch
green and young, female seed cone
a fleshy berry used in gin
another life when you...
The first itinerant preacher to travel as far as Chilmark was the Rev. Joshua Hall, in 1797. A small Methodist “class” was formed and continued to...
