Commentary
The Name of the Game
Listen to John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach, who waited fifteen years before his team earned an NCAA...
Memorial Day
On May 28 Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard and Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod (H& PCCC) announced an alliance that will bring expanded...
To quote the Vineyard Gazette editorial in the May 15 issue: “The goals of affordable housing are both vital and laudable, but they are not above...
Memorial Day brings many great tradi tions. Yesterday we watched some of the tributes on the television and I was struck by the footage of visitors...
Rescuing the Messboy
From Gazette editions of May, 1934:
enough hypocrisy
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
This from Laurie David’s (self-proclaimed environmental activist) blog on the Huffington Post:
“My...
We just installed a new oven and the kitchen has been all torn up. A fit of tidiness and order naturally followed this upheaval, an inspiration to...
Port Town in a Storm
A Daunting Task
While Island seniors and their families are planning their graduation parties, parents of Island middle schoolers are discovering...
One morning in 1934, when Nelson Bryant was eleven years old, his father bought him a twenty-gauge shotgun. He took it out to the marsh at the...
It was a mixed group that gathered in the Polly Hill Arboretum Saturday night about 5:30 p.m. From this aging grandmother to a six-month-old baby...