Commentary
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...
Letters to the President
With President Obama soon to arrive on the Vineyard, it seems appropriate to look back at an earlier visit. For instance, I was surprised to read...
By SQUIRE RUSHNELL
My wonderful wife, Louise DuArt, and I live in the Yellow Cottage of Edgartown, built in 1853. We love that our Island’s most...
From a Vineyard Gazette edition of 1931:
