Commentary
What if you wrote you are God’s elect, self-chosen
to bring order into a “new world,”
settled by natives seen as stray commas,
or apostrophes,...
Editor’s Note: The following piece by Polly Woollcott Murphy was published in the Gazette on Dec. 2, 1983. Mrs. Murphy, who began writing for the...
On Nov. 15, 1969, a million peo ple, give or take a few hundred thousand, marched on Washington to protest the war in Vietnam. It was my first major...
Living and raising a family on Martha’s Vineyard for the last 11 years has provided me with a broad knowledge of local charitable organizations,...
A Last Relic
From Gazette editions of November, 1959:
T he rich are different from you and me,” Scott Fitzgerald once said to Ernest Hemingway. “Yes,” Ernest replied, “they have more money.”
Scott...
PAYING TOO MUCH
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
On Tuesday the town of Tisbury voted to give the Island Housing Trust, a private, nonprofit land...
Stray Blooms
Bring Back The Game
Some of you might know me from a couple of years back when I used to write for this column. I’m back again, this time as a senior and guest editor...
We started off early this morning, to get our long awaited flu shots which were scheduled from 8 a.m. until noon. This had been on our calendar for...
Appropriate Scale
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to Sen. Robert O’Leary and Rep. Timothy Madden:
I appreciate the...