Commentary
Lyme Epidemic
The night sweats, the fever, the bullseye rash: the symptoms of Lyme disease are all too familiar to people on Martha’s Vineyard,...
Bounded by Nature
From Gazette editions of October, 1960:
In one of the major real estate transactions of the year, involving the future of the...
My cherry tomatoes have worked a miracle: they’ve made me regret the passing of summer. I don’t like summer. Almost every year it settles in like...
Hurricane Forecast
We felt the wonder
of the moment. . .
standing silent, awaiting
the outcome of an event unfolding
untouched by human...
QUICK RESPONSE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
My family and I would like to thank the Edgartown police department and the Edgartown fire department...
Little Doe’s Big Mac
It began with a dream while Jessie Little Doe Baird slept, in which people spoke to her in a tongue she could not understand...
October’s Fine Wares
The harvest is payday. All the planting, tending and careful work turns time for picking, gleaning and eating. This is true...
I learned about buying and selling Woof Tickets while teaching graphic arts in the New York city public schools. In my students’ neighborhood, if...
We few, we band of brothers and sisters, all six billion of us on planet earth, have identified the problem and we’ve identified the solution. We’...
There have been many televised and Internet reports about potential Koran burnings and Muslim worship centers of late. Sadly, most of them have...
Autumn Tales
From Gazette editions of October, 1935:
The following letter was sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
I am writing on behalf of the many, many Island residents and visitors who are...
