Commentary
From Gazette editions of April, 1985:
Counting the Hard Way
We are an elusive people, Vineyarders. We live down unmarked dirt roads where we do not receive mail. Global positioning services are not much use across much of our Island. Some live here seasonally. We guard our privacy.
When we consider placing wind turbines on Horseshoe Shoal and near Noman’s Land, we simply cannot throw caution to the wind and jump into this full tilt. No matter where we stand with regard to where those turbines should stand, we first need to deal with some basic meteorological and technical aspects of this energy source.
On April 13, West Tisbury voters will be making many important decisions. One item, Article 31 on the annual town warrant, deals with the future of the Mill Pond, a man-made pond created by at least the mid-1800s. It is not known when the first grist mill was built on the Old Mill River, but it was central to the lives of the earliest settlers of what would become West Tisbury. According to Banks, “the location of the mill was on the Josiah Standish home lot,” and after several transfers, came into the possession of Edward Cottle in 1688.
These days we are afraid to have a hero. Because over and over, heroes keep falling off their pedestals. Another one did last year on Thanksgiving Day. Tiger Woods is the most highly paid professional athlete on earth. He’s been greatly admired and sought after by many around the globe. Then the script of Tiger’s terrible Thanksgiving was revealed in the media. What was initially reported as a single car accident was part of something much bigger. That accident damaged a tree, a Cadillac Escalade, a reputation.
From Gazette editions of April, 1935: