Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.

The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.

Time and Timing

July Days

The last of the summer hay has been cut and baled. Swallows swoop around the farm fields, feasting on crickets and insects in the grassy stubble. The terrier chases the swallows in endless wide circles. The midday sun is hot now, the ocean water cold and perfect for swimming after a dusty morning spent leaning on the mower.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1958:

Certainly worth a first page position is the fact that James Thurber, the American humorist, whom the Vineyard proudly stakes a proprietary claim to because of his visits here, lunched in London with the editors of Punch.

The significance of this event can be understood from the facts as set down in a Reuters dispatch as follows:

HEART RENDING

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Deacon Perrotta, the water superintendent for Tisbury and Oak Bluffs who has come under scrutiny the past two years for an unusual contractual agreement with both towns, unexpectedly resigned from his job in both towns last month.

Mr. Perrotta first announced his plans to step down in early June, and his last day on the job was last Wednesday. He resigned after negotiating an agreement with the Tisbury Water Works and Oak Bluffs Water District stipulating that each town pay him a severance package of $45,000 plus unused vacation time.

A Vineyard Haven man was charged with felony assault and battery with a deadly weapon on Sunday after he allegedly tried to steal an item from an Edgartown store and then hit one of the store’s employees with his car in the parking lot.

The board of the directors for the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club abruptly closed the popular Second Hand Store on North Summer street in Edgartown yesterday, first firing the store’s two full-time employees and its entire staff of volunteers.

Peter Lambos, executive director for the boys’ and girls’ club, said the board of directors held a special meeting on Sunday and made the decision to fire manager Darlene Kelly and assistant manager Penny Townes, who are co-managers and a well-known presence in the store.

They are their own Jewish farm parable of sorts — one cast in the role of Moses, the youngest brother and prophet, the other cast as Aaron, the elder brother who speaks for them both. Rob Goldfarb, development director for the Farm Institute in Edgartown, is the older brother. Matthew Goldfarb, executive director, is the younger one. The Goldfarb brothers came to the Vineyard in 2005 sight unseen and took the reins at the fledgling Farm Institute, an educational, working farm in the rich Great Plains of Edgartown.

Reno herself was born Socialist. “It happened to me as I entered the birth canal and entered the world,” she suspects. “Because it’s how I’ve always felt, that there is something fishy about Wall Street.” She has no checking account. Certainly no investments. “I’ve just avoided anything about finance.”