Commentary
Jay Segredo, one of the main characters in my novel The Mud of the Place, is a gay man who grew up on Martha’s Vineyard but lived off-Island for...
Reading the Fine Print
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The proposed distributed antenna system (DAS), to improve wireless and public service...
The Beginning
From Gazette editions of June, 1959:
ROAD RAGE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I recently returned from a three-week hiking trip in the Ozarks, in time for a second springtime here on-Island. Spring here seems to be about a...
Walking Tall, for a Good Cause
This evening begins one of the most poignant and boisterous and multigenerational and successful of the many annual...
No Longer Golden Pond
Sengekontacket Pond is in trouble, but not from bacterial contamination, making the state-mandated summer closures on the...
UP AND DOWN
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
While enjoying the excerpt from David Kinney’s book The Big One on your op-ed page, May 22, I tripped over...
From a June Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton:
Editor’s. Note: The Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank recently sponsored an essay contest for school children in grades five, six and seven, in honor...
Achoo
It’s in the air. And on the car and settling in fine layers on the dining room table and coating the laptop and flying out of the dog’s coat...
Open Season on Tuesdays
Early summer on the farm and the fields are plowed and top-dressed with fresh compost (aka black gold); new lettuce is...