Commentary
In early August I accepted a freelance proofreading job at a rate that could generously be called less than desirable. The job comes with flexible...
For the past week, President Obama has been my neighbor on Martha’s Vineyard. He’s not what you call a cheek-by-jowl neighbor. Although we are both...
I can’t wait for Edgartown Hardware to move out of downtown. For three generations my family and I have shopped there. You can’t beat the service...
Late Summer Days
The northeaster that blew through the Island this week was right on schedule in this summer of early things: early spring, early...
RIGHT AT HOME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
A Half Century Ago
From Gazette editions of August, 1960:
Trading Blackberry for Blackberries
Last week, the New York Times reported on five neuroscientists who had spent a week in May in remote Utah,...
Waiting for the ATF
Benjamin Kaplan, one of the commonwealth’s foremost jurists and a Vineyard seasonal resident, died last week at 99. Justice Kaplan was an eloquent...
PROFILE IN COURAGE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
President Obama can add another chapter to John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage; a man willing to...
FROM QUANSOO ROAD
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I was relieved to read that the Quansoo Beach Association membership took action to reconfigure its...
Growing up on the Vineyard, I long ago came to terms with finding wildlife in my house.
Ticks, spiders, mosquitoes and moths in summer; mice (both...
