LONG OVERDUE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following letter was sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission:

I remember so many things about when I went to America; I missed so many things about Brazil. I felt like I didn’t belong in America because things were so different. I can say that I had the worst first day of school on Sept. 5, 2005. My first impressions of America were, “Wow, what a beautiful place,” but making American friends was the hardest part of moving there.

What is the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living? Originally called the Island Councils on Aging, the Center for Living has served Islanders who are 55 and over for almost 40 years. In 2009, the name was changed to the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living to eliminate confusion and more importantly to change the focus from aging to living. The program continues to be a partner with the town councils on aging and other organizations serving Islanders 55 and older.

Bounded by Nature

From Gazette editions of October, 1960:

In one of the major real estate transactions of the year, involving the future of the Edgartown golf course and of golf as it has been played there since 1928, the course is about to pass from the ownership of Cornelius Lee to the Edgartown Golf Club Inc. Mr. Lee stepped down from the presidency last summer, to be succeeded by Robert Brown Jr.

Hurricane Forecast

We felt the wonder

of the moment. . .

standing silent, awaiting

the outcome of an event unfolding

untouched by human hands. . .

wind and sea spoke with voices far away

but touching us nonetheless.

fear and hope we held in visions of

our own device. . .

— C. Glenn Sprague

Little Doe’s Big Mac

It began with a dream while Jessie Little Doe Baird slept, in which people spoke to her in a tongue she could not understand. The last person to sound those words had breathed his last some hundred and seventy years earlier. But it became Mrs. Baird’s own dream to revive Wôpanâak, the language her Wampanoag ancestors spoke to express their ideas, emotions, knowledge, memories and values.