Commentary
Summer White House 2011
Marine One touched down at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport yesterday afternoon just before six o’clock as the sun began to...
Bath Time
From Gazette editions of August, 1936:
We went over to the Chappaquiddick bathing beach the other day and made some observations. We...
I have mixed feelings about going to the Agricultural Fair. This has nothing to do with the fair itself, which at 150-years-old has aged...
Editor’s Note: The following story was published in the Gazette in August 1961 on the occasion of the fair centennial.
BY JOSEPH CHASE ALLEN
From Gazette editions of August, 1986:
It is so special this time, there will be color postcards, a Vineyard Clydesdale, the calzones, the...
Every time I see President Obama autographing a piece of legislation in the Oval Office, I’m in awe of how neat his desk looks. I mean, here’s the...
For as long as I have been an active member of Amnesty International, and certainly from the mid-1980s, it has been taken as an article of faith...
Within a healthy system of food produc tion and distribution, farms would not need “saving.” However, as it is, we are losing farmland (and the...
Midsummer Steam
The evening sun is picking up its pace, and so is everything else on the Vineyard. As the sun races too fast for the horizon, we...
Every year the Martha’s Vineyard Ecu menical Youth Group goes on a mission trip. Last year we went to Washington D.C. to help in a homeless shelter...
Summer Swells
From Gazette editions of August, 1986:
In the middle of what will be his last long summer on the Vineyard for some time, Angelo...
HURTFUL LESSON
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Dating back to the early 1940s when the Steamship Authority’s ferry would leave from New Bedford, it...
