Commentary
The Pilgrims survived!
For this they praised the Lord
And thanked their Indian friends
Who taught them how to live
In this different land....
Often lost in the debate about the pros and cons of developing new sources of energy production is the critical importance of conserving our...
Our hot tub broke down last Monday, making it no longer hot. On Wednesday, my grandfather’s clock jammed; it takes six months to clean and repair....
THE TAX MAN
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The front page article in Friday’s paper titled “Tisbury’s Taxes Sharply Higher” may have given the casual...
It was thirty-five years ago that I wrote my first editorial for the Vineyard Gazette, an editorial so important that today no one remembers the...
At the Table
From Bill Caldwell’s 1983 “The Day After:”
Please pass the bicarb. That second round of pie a la mode was a mistake. Indeed the...
Thanksgiving gets people thinking about birds. For most folks it’s about eating one, the one upside down on the dining room table, with side dishes...
The summer traffic jam is past, but I’m not yet used to the novelty of finding parking in front of the places I want to go. Leslie’s, the...
Pierre Bonneau was in Paris teaching a full immersion language course for the University of Arizona when he got an e-mail from his wife back in...
PROTECTING ANTIQUITY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The County Conundrum
Does county government have a useful function anymore? Throughout the commonwealth the county form of government has...
Roses in November
Autumn on the Vineyard this year has been an up-and-down tale of weather, as if the Island had been gripped by some...
