Commentary
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...
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...
