Commentary
Chasing Liberty
From Gazette editions of September, 1986:
CLEAR THE AIR
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
West Tisbury selectman Richard Knabel’s piece in the Vineyard Gazette entitled Those Who Deny Science...
Right now as I drive around the Vineyard, I suddenly feel disoriented and for a moment not sure where I am. I experience this unexpected...
MCAS Scores: What Lies Beneath
Examining the results of the annual statewide standardized school exams can be like being a kid again and looking...
Saltwater Heroes
The idea came from an eight-year-old Chilmark boy. Three years ago young Jack Nixon was reading journalist David Kinney’s book...
I attended the August 30 town hall meet ing with Cong. Barney Frank at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center and was given the opportunity to ask a...
Nine Eleven: 10 Years Later
Heavy skies drop rain
daily in intermittent waves
this old summer cottage
of ours harbors air eddies
demands the...
Tornadoes, an earthquake, the edge of a hurricane — all in Massachusetts, all in one summer. This is unusual, as are the record number of recent...
In Memory of Julia
Like leaves of fall, shells change in shape,
managing their change of fate.
Parts and pieces, seaweed strewn,
parade of...
Oxen Free
From Gazette editions of 1964:
The Gazette has recently carried the report of the sale of the last pair of oxen on the Island by their...
BROADER VISION
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Perhaps the best aspect of living in Aquin nah is that my neighborhood is under the beacon of the lighthouse. There is a constant peace and calmness...
