Commentary
WATER’S FINE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
So I hear the waters that I have gone swimming in every summer since I was an infant (Truman was...
From Gazette summer editions:
It’s one of those odd things that the northeast wind which, most of the year, produces three days — at least — of...
Stand here and there, old Vineyard homes,
All wrapped in deep content.
— Emma Mayhew Whiting
They’re painting all the houses white in Edgartown...
Some years back, my wife and I rented a tiny little cottage in Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard. It was called the Binnacle. According to a story we...
Ometepe is as unlikely a place as you could ever imagine to catch a glimpse of the future. Although unique in the world, an island composed of two...
Vineyard residents have a unique op portunity next Thursday, July 28, to assess the state of civil liberties and justice in America as we approach...
Murky Waters
It’s been a delicious hot spell, the days sunny but not excessively so and the nights cool. Perfect Island weather. Perfect for...
MONUMENTAL MOVE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Our selectmen have voted to move the little-known war memorial from its somewhat obscure site at the...
Birds of a Feather
From Gazette editions of July, 1936:
We went to the Farmers’ Cooperative Market last Friday. It’s held in the Agricultural...
By SHIRLEY MAYHEW
I have lived in West Tisbury for almost 64 years — what is there not to love? I have lived in the house we built on the north...
EGREGIOUS ERROR
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Stunned! Heartbroken! Furious! These are but three of the emotions I was feeling after reading about...
