I sometimes take the VTA bus to work or go on errands. On a recent afternoon, on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, I sat toward the back of the bus because it was crowded.

I am attuned to sound. I have been since I was a child and liked to capture the sounds, voices and happenings in my world on my red Take ‘n Tape Panasonic cassette recorder.

On the masthead of the Vineyard Gazette, typically on page six, to the right of the logo of a plump bunch of grapes is this: Established in 1846 A Journal of Island Life.