Commentary
Cable Talks
In a small room on the second floor of West Tisbury town hall this week, a crowd of maybe one actual spectator gathered to hear the...
DOING HIS JOB
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I read in today’s morning news a brief announcement of the summons against Jamie Zambrama.
Peter Brannen’s article on the State of Birds in the Gazette two weeks ago was interesting and included excerpts from the information gathered over...
In these highly partisan times, policy debates about irrelevant questions are unhelpful in resolving real issues. This is illustrated by the recent...
Despite the gadgets and technological wizardry that define our era, human beings don’t require much to survive. Yet we’ve manipulated the natural...
Nest Eggs
From Gazette editions of October, 1936:
George M. Jenks of North Tisbury, at the age of 86, took for his bride Mrs. Elizabeth Hallett...
Gone Scalloping
The water was so warm you almost didn’t need waders. The October sun glinted off the water in the pond and at Sengekontacket...
My daughter Pickle, age three and half, has been talking a lot about death lately. The other night at dinner she turned to her mother, Cathlin, and...
Living on the Edge
Every week brings new facts to support what our senses already know. The natural environment around us is changing, and the...
Editor’s Note: The following story was published in the Gazette in February 2006. Basil Welch died on Sept. 24 at the age of 87. His obituary...
A single note plays for what seems an eternity, wavering in the ear of the fiddler. She tunes, walking the stage at the Katharine Cornell Theatre...
Like most kids from suburban New Jersey, I grew up disconnected from the earth compared to the Native Americans that I’m learning to live like...
