Commentary
The news in my morning newspa per was not good. Indeed, it was frightful and depressive. But why should it be otherwise when agendas seeded and...
Joe Cressy
Salty and scholarly
Haltingly clear
What Joe Cressy spoke
You wanted to hear
Scottish and kilted
Malt in his hand
Reciting...
PRAISE RUPERT
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Tisbury selectmen reacting to complaints about a rooster in the...
I have no answers to the world’s big problems. I’m no guru,” wrote artist, teacher and peace-promoter Winslow Myers in a recent e-mail. Although he...
May Days
Perhaps encouraged by the drenching rains this month, Vineyard woods and meadows are blanketed with wildflowers of every description....
Our Changing Island
Anchors Aw eigh
From Art Railton’s Just a Thought, May 20, 1994:
CAPT. JOE CRESSY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Chappy and Martha’s Vineyard have lost one of their most extraordinary citizens. Joe Cressy’s...
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...
