Commentary
Susan Desmarais recently retired as a Vineyard outreach worker. As a social worker, she is cognizant of privacy issues regarding confidentiality of her clients. What follows are her views on Alzheimer’s disease.
Coming Back
From Gazette editions of May, 1986:
It was supposed to be like any other Tuesday.
I was 13 years old, sitting outside on the breathtakingly beautiful day in between classes, diligently reading my history textbook, when a teacher told a group of us they were calling an immediate emergency schoolwide assembly.
The actual announcement that terrorists had hijacked planes and taken down the World Trade Center towers is a bit of a blur, but the energy and confusion was palpable. My heart burned, my body went numb. We returned to class, speechless.
A Mother’s Love
Your Family: How It Works.
Town Meeting Report Card
Vigorous selectmen’s races in three towns. Feisty debates on issues small and large, from streetlights at Katama to beer and wine provisions in West Tisbury to new rules for swimming pools in Chilmark. A financial squeeze caused by shrinking revenues in a stubborn economic recession that keeps hanging around like a bad cold. These were the hallmarks of the annual town meeting season on the Vineyard this year, which draws to a close next week with the town meeting and election in Aquinnah.
It took a gentle push and a firm pull of many hands to get the 1,590-pound bronze bell back into position. But last Friday, after months of work and preparation, the Old Whaling Church bell was again in its place high above downtown Edgartown.