Commentary
Island Baseball
The big turnout for the Cape Cod Baseball League game held two weeks ago at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is strong...
At a dinner party recently, I listened as the person next to me answered my standard dinner party question: what brought you to the Vineyard?
The...
Here we stand at the beginning of August, the maw of summer where the maelstrom of Vineyard life swallows us whole each year. Instead of the...
MISQUOTED
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Maybe you have had this experience: a reporter from one of the local newspapers calls you and asks your...
Recently I was privileged to see a per formance of End Days written by Deborah Zoe Laufer and directed by Claudia Weill at the Vineyard Playhouse....
PIVOTAL CHOICE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Dukes County Commission:
Speaking as friends of the county, we...
The scene: a corridor in the Congress Hotel, Chicago. The time: mid-afternoon on a sultry July day in 1952. The cast: four or five radio reporters...
There are times in our lives when incidents in the lives of people we do not know take on such profound meaning that we want to learn more. For me...
Diving for Dollars
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1983:
Every day during the summer a small band of young swimmers gathers at the...
Sheriff’s Meadow: Tracking the Future
This has been a painful summer for the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, the venerable Island conservation...
Shine a Light
On an Island where the dire lack of low and moderately priced housing is a perennial issue, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is...
The Cost of Eating
In most places, a walk down a supermarket aisle does not lend itself to experiences of awe and incredulity. But Martha’s...