Commentary
Okay, my wife and I have been living here full-time for more than three years. I know we can never lose the label of washashore, but is it conceivable we might be at least recognized with a label that advances our status?
The dads were both engineers and the moms were stay-at-homes with young ones. The more liberal of the two mothers was Ann Margetson, whose idea it was to share a summer vacation in Oak Bluffs.
When I was a young boy growing up in Chilmark, this was the time of year when my friends and I would spend most of our days fishing the brooks and ponds for native brook trout.
The following letter was sent to the Army Corps of Engineers; the author is chairman of the Chilmark selectmen.
I have passed the Point Way Inn, home of Noepe Center for Literary Arts and Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency, hundreds of times. My family vacationed on the Island for 30-plus years, and now my daughter lives here, a full-time resident on the cusp of marrying a Vineyarder.
The board of selectmen has brought a plan forward. It is now up to the wisdom of Chilmark voters to decide how to proceed.