Commentary
CORMORANTS AND FAIR GAME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Perhaps Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop’s choice of words and his efforts to diminish the population...
Continuing the Conversation on Race
On and off, for almost 50 years, my family and I have been returning to the Island for at least one month every summer. My first rental in 1962 — a...
The anti-conservation comments made by fishing charter Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop in the July issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine about shooting...
His strong sense of being vic timized by White America was, I feel certain, what drove the behavior of Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., widely known as...
Unlike the farmhouse I rent on Middle Road, or Binty, the horse who whiles away her dotage in the meadow adjacent, I am not yet ancient. So what is...
If you’d gone out to the right fork at South Beach on any sunny summer afternoon in the last 40 years, you would have seen her. Dressed in long...
CONTRADICTIONS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Environmental Defense Fund:
I have just received a reminder to...
August Days Begin
This used to be called changeover weekend, when the July people left and the August people came. But the lines of tradition are...
Bird of Paradise
From Gazette editions of July, 1959:
From a Gazette edition of 1929:
BIRDS AND WIND
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I appreciated Susan Whiting giving us the thoughtful comments of David Nash on wind power and bird...