Commentary
Border Lines
From the Gazette Fence File:
The boulder-strewn hills of the Vineyard are enduring but many of the relics of a more recent past are...
With sea level rise at our doorstep and storms chomping away at the shoreline it’s time to rethink an economy based largely on seasonal, coastal...
Recently I wrote an article about Angel Flight Northeast that will be published next month in Avalon Magazine. Angel Flight Northeast is an...
Nowhere is the proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” more relevant than on our Island where everyone knows everyone and there’s a strong...
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...
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...
MCAS Scores: What Lies Beneath
Examining the results of the annual statewide standardized school exams can be like being a kid again and looking...
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...
