Commentary
TALE OF TWO CITIZENS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Mucking Around
From Gazette editions of March, 1961:
What follows is an edited selection of reader comments from the Gazette Web site last week.
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Court Rules No Price Fixing on Gas
PURE JOY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Life seldom makes sense, especially when those we love are taken from us in ways that are as terrible as they...
Editor’s Note: The following was sent by e-mail to Vineyard Conservation Society members on Wednesday morning this week.
Seismic Shifts, Trustees Too Silent
The announcement last week by The Trustees of Reservations of major staffing and organizational changes on the...
Quiet Island
The Island in winter is often a calm affair. But during this first week of March it has downshifted to a gear slower than walking,...
Heeding the Call
From Gazette editions of March, 1936:
After five weeks’ delay, the schooner Alice Wentworth, Cap’n Zeb Tilton, sailed for...
It’s called the MV 20 Miler and it was started 14 years ago by Bill Brown as an opportunity for runners to tune up for marathons and — no less...
Dandelion Gone to Seed
A sphere of silvery transparency,
at the top of a silvery stem.
Perfect in its static death.
But the next wind will blow...
I had to get my hair done. After six months on the Vineyard, serious hair repair was going to be necessary to get my flaxen mane back on track....
INSPIRING TEXT
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
A word of appreciation to James H.K. Norton for his Commentary Page piece titled Mayhew, Tear Down This...
