Commentary
TRUE PREP: It’s a Whole New Old World. By Lisa Birnbach with Chip Kidd. Alfred A. Knopf. September 2010. 256 pages. $19.95, hardcover.
CAPABLE MR. BABSON
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I am writing about the resignation of David Babson, former manager of the Trustees of Reservations at Norton Point and on Chappaquiddick. I have read the previous letters and feel they were well written and each has had good points on this matter.
This is in response to David Nash’s letter to the editor backing the proposed fish pier in Oak Bluffs. I will do my best to respond point by point.
If you know people who bird along the coast, you know they get excited by the potential of tropical storms. Not just for all the usual reasons, but because terrible weather can be terribly good forbirding. Sometimes.
Prickly Thistles
From Gazette editions of September, 1985:
The transition into the school season brings a big change into the lives of students across the Island each September, and the youngest sometimes feel this most poignantly. Mary Jacobson, principal of the Chilmark School, had a story to share this week about a first grader.
Little Lev Wlodyka went to the school telephone at 10:15 Monday morning and called home.
Hurricane Earl has come and gone, leaving little trace of its passing besides drawers full of candles and batteries that will take months to use up. For this I am grateful. Before memories fade, however, let’s spend a moment considering the emergency preparations that preceded the storm. You’d think certain Martha’s Vineyard officials had never battened down for severe weather before. Before there was reason to believe that power or traffic would be seriously disrupted, they told businesses to close at 2 p.m. Friday and stay closed for 24 hours.