Commentary
Author’s Note: This unpublished essay was written in April 2003. Initial and continuing military actions in Iraq, primarily by one aggressor...
25 Years Ago
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November, 1982:
Preservation vs. Legal Nightmare
As the clamor grows louder in Oak Bluffs around the Veira Park baseball project, a few key points are important...
Last Draggers in Menemsha
The Quitsa Strider II sits rusting at the dock in Menemsha. Her skipper Jonathan Mayhew, who has devoted his life to...
I come from a family of wavers. We wave at each other (brothers, aunts, sisters in law), acquaintances (neighbors, businessfolk, fishermen), and...
Street Art With Heart
In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy asks perhaps the most famous scarecrow of all, “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”...
GLAD HEARTS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
We write to express our appreciation for the Martha’s Vineyard community’s support of our daughter,...
In this wild and scary world there are numerous challenges facing teachers. There are so many aspects to being an effective teacher that begin with...
Last week nearly 500 religious communities around the country screened the movie Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, a film that raises such questions as: how...
We are this week’s editors for Sophomores Speak Out. We are sophomore members of the class of 2010. This week we have a range of topics. All of our...
One of the most hallowed of Halloween traditions — the one that makes mere mortals susceptible to vampires because it involves not fake blood but...
Competent Leaders Needed
By RICHARD KNABEL