Commentary
SHIPWRECK SCRAPBOOK
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Mark Lovewell’s article concerning the wreck of the Mertie B. Crowley and the four Edgartown men...
End to a Distinguished Public Career
It is fashionable these days to criticize the United States Congress and all those elected to serve the...
The eye of the beholder, that’s where they say the beauty lies. Maybe this is why the conundrum of wind energy being wrangled within our Island...
THE REAL MENEMSHA
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From Gazette editions of March, 1935:
While telephone wires were busy with inquiries as to whether all or only part of Edgartown was being...
It’s funny the memories we keep.
There are the expected ones: a first kiss, college graduation, family holiday celebrations. And the not so...
Signs Matter
Character is in all the little features, those details that form the individual nature of a place. On the Vineyard, it’s in the split...
Chappaquiddick’s Long and Winding Road
Is a bike path really needed on Chappy, the last rural outpost on the Vineyard? It’s hard to say and there...
February is Black History Month. It was first established in 1926 by Dr. Carter Woodson, a professor at Tulane University, who “strongly believed...
The other night a friend from New York city called to see how I was doing. About a year and a half ago, my wife and I and our two small children...
This past Friday the Vineyard Gazette detailed the plans of Vineyard Power, the Island’s first energy cooperative, where predevelopment financing...
From a Gazette edition of 1930:
There is no place on Martha’s Vineyard that seems so far apart from the earth as Cedar Neck, the miniature...
