Commentary
Signs Matter
Character is in all the little features, those details that form the individual nature of a place. On the Vineyard, it’s in the split...
Chappaquiddick’s Long and Winding Road
Is a bike path really needed on Chappy, the last rural outpost on the Vineyard? It’s hard to say and there...
February is Black History Month. It was first established in 1926 by Dr. Carter Woodson, a professor at Tulane University, who “strongly believed...
The other night a friend from New York city called to see how I was doing. About a year and a half ago, my wife and I and our two small children...
This past Friday the Vineyard Gazette detailed the plans of Vineyard Power, the Island’s first energy cooperative, where predevelopment financing...
From a Gazette edition of 1930:
There is no place on Martha’s Vineyard that seems so far apart from the earth as Cedar Neck, the miniature...
SHACK OWNERS REACT
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Two of the selectmen have decided to make the shack owners in Menemsha insure the lots they lease...
Hermits of the Bog
My grandfather, Charles Shearer, was born into slavery. Henrietta Shearer was of Native American and African American descent. They were both...
Tisbury’s Good Idea
The Tisbury selectmen are on the right track as they begin to explore the idea of a two-town venture in shellfish management...
Live from La Scala
Down the Half Court
The regional high school boys basketball team is having a good year, winning half a share of the Eastern Athletic Conference...