Commentary
As one old enough to be entitled to a senior discount (for cash) at Shirley’s Hardware, the activity of sanding new drywall corners at the top of a...
FRIENDS INDEED
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I would like to thank the Oak Bluffs police and ambulance, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital emergency room...
Whenever I leave for “home” my grand daughter says, “No, Grammy, New York is not your home, this is.” And yes it is so. This is my home now and I am...
Opening New Doors
Death Takes a Holiday
From Gazette editions of December, 1934:
There it was — on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago, the slight tickle at the back of the throat. By noon I was coughing and by the time darkness...
OUR OWN HOUSE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Thanksgiving 2009
Looking out from the magnificent expanse of the Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah, one of the few visible structures is the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge...
Gov. Deval Patrick, his administration and the legislature are to be commended for the passage of the Massachusetts Oceans Act of 2008 and the...
Run for the Money
From the 1972 Thanksgiving weekend edition of the Gazette:
“I guess,” said one down-Island boat-owner, as he stood in the...
What if you wrote you are God’s elect, self-chosen
to bring order into a “new world,”
settled by natives seen as stray commas,
or apostrophes,...
