Commentary
75 Years Ago
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1932:
“Millions viewed the eclipse.” So said the mainland newspapers, and the...
DESIGNATION PITFALLS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
By BRAD WOODGER
We’re all busy. More important, however, is that everybody else knows that we’re busy. Few street meetings or catch-up phone calls...
A Weapon to Defend Island Waters
The days slip by, one after another. First a hundred, then a thousand, then thousands more. The cesspool keeps...
Disappearing Ancient Ways
On Thursday night the Martha’s Vineyard Commission will hold a public hearing on a proposal to include five ancient ways...
A DIFFERENT RESIDENT
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I would like it to be known that the “Susan Shea” mentioned in the article in the Vineyard...
By Polly Woollcott Murphy. From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November 1976:
The Public Park that Never Happened
For two decades, so-called Boch Park on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven has sat in a limbo made of court battles...
Being a seasonal Island resident, when I return to my other homeland I am often asked what do people on Martha’s Vineyard do in the winter? My...
As Thomas Ricks was writ ing his definitive account of the planning and execution of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, he would sometimes look...
The solution to the problems facing our great ponds is so simple that I can hear the slapping of foreheads as I write this — the Martha’s Vineyard...
Return to Tivoli Day
The town of Oak Bluffs, planning a new celebration at the end of summer in 1978, turned to its own history and took the name...