Commentary
READING MY FATHER : A Memoir. By Alexandra Styron. Scribner, New York, N.Y. April 2011. 285 pages, photographs. $25 hardcover.
Could Tolstoy have...
Climate change is complicated; sea level rise is not. We live on an Island — a glorified sandbar — and the sea is closing in on us. It is rising...
Beyond War
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
A question was recently sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council: “Are there going to be any more...
Susan Desmarais recently retired as a Vineyard outreach worker. As a social worker, she is cognizant of privacy issues regarding confidentiality of...
A Night to Remember
Word Play
Fis-SIP-par-ous — adj. Tending to break up into parts, divisive.
It’s often depressing to read about the world outside our own lovely...
Coming Back
From Gazette editions of May, 1986:
It took a gentle push and a firm pull of many hands to get the 1,590-pound bronze bell back into position. But last Friday, after months of work...
It was supposed to be like any other Tuesday.
I was 13 years old, sitting outside on the breathtakingly beautiful day in between classes,...
On the rainy morning of Sunday, April 23, I boarded the Steamship boat and returned to the mainland and my life as I knew it before Camp Safe Haven...
Wind turbines get all the negative ink. Noise, vibration, flicker, interruption of beloved views. Big troublemakers, aren’t they?
Solar panels, on...
After this long, cold winter, I find myself in a delightfully warm, invigorating spring with a fever I cannot contain.
I’ll explain.
