Commentary
Once upon a time I would have been the perfect contestant on The Price Is Right. Bob Barker would walk up to a woman in the audience and offer $50...
PATIENCE, PLEASE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Residents of the Vineyard have a well-timed opportunity to defend dissent next Thursday (July 29) when notable residents will gather at the...
Three Decades, Built the Old Way
The names of the wooden boats they build by hand are a metaphor for the work they do: sturdy, elegant and...
The Business of Life
From Gazette editions of July, 1985:
Flights of History
In the coming year the Vineyard and Gosnold communities will be deciding what kind of wind energy development we want, both on land and offshore in...
FROM MENEMSHA
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Thank you to everyone who helped put out the boathouse fire on July 12. Without this all-island effort,...
What follows is an edited selection of reader comments from the Gazette Web site on the Menemsha fire.
The indignity of fire — it struck on a sunny , hot and cheery summer Monday at about 3 p.m. The first warnings were muffled explosions and the...
JOB WELL DONE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
FIFTEEN WOMEN: French Women Poets of the Early 20th Century. Translation & Notes by Edward Hewett. Greensboro Unicorn Press Inc., Greensboro...