Commentary
NO POSITION
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to Mark Forrest, chief of staff for Cong. Bill Delahunt:
I understand that...
Forks in a Rural Road
There are deepening divisions on Chappaquiddick over whether a bike path should be built on the tiny rural island that lies...
Least terns have nested on the Vineyard for as long as I can remember. According to Ludlow Griscom and Guy Emerson, the least terns of the Vineyard...
In his commentary in last Friday’s Gazette, Prof . Lawrence Harrison made several observations and presumptions about the episode between Prof....
TONE DOWN RHETORIC
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Much is being made of the recent arrest of Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his own home in...
Zachariah Howwoswee Jr. was the last Aquinnah preacher to speak to his flock in his native language, Wôpanâak. By the early 19th century, there...
Blueberry Obsession
Notebook on an Auction
It was a splendid night, this first Monday in August, and a splendid new venue for the annual Possible Dreams auction: an...
Clocking the Turkey
From Gazette editions of August, 1934:
On the evening of Wednesday, July 29, the Vineyard Conservation Society presented a public information forum titled Ponds in Peril. Several...
Story Misses the Mark
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Regarding the recent Gazette article title: “Bikram Yoga Puts Sweat Over Spirituality in a...
CORMORANTS AND FAIR GAME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Perhaps Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop’s choice of words and his efforts to diminish the population...
