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Shedding Light on the Lunar Eclipse

Mark Alan Lovewell

If the weather is clear, Sunday night will open with a brilliant harvest full moon rising over Chappaquiddick. But then the moon will fade as...

1:17 pm, September 24, 2015
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Ritual Is Path to Hold a Broken Heart

Nancy Slonim Aronie

Every year the days before and the days after Rosh Hashonnah and Yom Kippur I get very blue. Nostalgia (which literally means the pain of the past)...

1:02 pm, September 24, 2015
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Seabirds in the Wake

Auden Conrad Neumann

There are seldom times I do not mourn the sea/And all the descending memories darkening below/The wheeling of seabirds in the wake is one/On 32 South...

12:58 pm, September 24, 2015
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Gazette Chronicle

Economies of Scale

From every quarter comes the question: “What is the world coming to?”; and particularly when the word comes of wholesale disaster.

12:47 pm, September 24, 2015
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Short Runway

There’s a decided air of neglect about the Martha’s Vineyard Airport that has nothing to do with the Island’s casual vibe.

5:17 pm, September 17, 2015
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Sweet Smell of Autumn

Good fences make good neighbors, the old adage goes, but surely flowers along fence lines are among the prettiest sights.

5:08 pm, September 17, 2015
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Letters to the Editor

Food Pantry Thanks

Many thanks to Islanders who made needed contributions to the Island Food Pantry before Thanksgiving.

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Letters to the Editor

Beautiful New Drawbridge

• Beautiful New Drawbridge Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

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Letters to the Editor

Deer Solution: Try a Jaguar

As anyone knows, the population of skunks is a continuing noxious menace.

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Gazette Chronicle: The Legend of Manuel Silvia

From the April 11, 1930 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

The name Manuel Silvia being a common one, the subject of this sketch is specifically designated to avoid confusion. Mr. Silvia is worthy of more than passing mention as having lived in the up-Island section longer than any other Portuguese citizen, and while he was not the first to locate west of the Chilmark-West Tisbury line, only one had come before him, and the death of his predecessor long before made Mr. Silvia a pioneer in a manner of speaking.