Commentary
Cuttyhunk island, lying seven miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and 14 off New Bedford, is connected to the coast by one ferry line and the...
Ries Vanderpol was 17 when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, his home country, in 1940. Before the invasion, he had seen Jewish students who...
SAVING THE STRIPERS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Rainy Days, and Busy
Mid-September is when Islanders heave a collective sigh of relief. We hear it in the reclaiming of beaches closed to the...
Drilling Offshore, That Old Song Again
Richard Nixon seems an unlikely hero of conservationists, but he was the President who signed into law what...
One More Slice
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1933:
Compromise at Bradley Square
The neighborhood looks tired and a little run down. The old church is boarded up and empty, while a sagging cottage...
The Joy of Voting
SAVING LIVES
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1933:
Second Life for the Home Port
Chilmark voters face an important decision when they convene for a special town meeting later this month: whether to...
I don’t think the statute of limitations for many of my adventures this summer has quite yet passed. Thus an autobiographical essay published in a...