Commentary
This fall, Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation will officially allow a restricted amount of bow hunting of deer on certain selected properties. While hunting has occurred on many of our lands over our 50 years, it has not occurred with our sanction. This policy has changed, and the change in policy warrants an explanation.
Natural History Education
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the All-Island School Committee:
For almost 40 years, Felix Neck has been providing generations of Island school children experiences in nature. Through the years, participating in a Felix Neck field trip has been an exciting and important part of the Island school experience. Our programs are vital to the educational experience of teachers, students and parents alike.
Editor’s Note: Henry Stephenson, a member of the Tisbury planning board, this week prepared a series of simulated images illustrating how proposed wind farms might affect views from the Gay Head Cliffs. The above image, a panorama taken from the Gay Head overlook, shows what turbines placed in planned state and federal areas would look like if the current version of the oceans plan is carried out. What follows is Mr. Stephenson’s written explanation of this and other images.
Jim Hickey’s interesting story last spring about baseball, starting with games on the Arctic ice by Vineyard whalers, and moving naturally along to games on Waban Park in Oak Bluffs in the early 1900s, brought exciting memories in the Barnes family.
One of the quintessential Vineyard vistas is the expanse of ocean visible from the Gay Head Cliffs, classified by the U.S. Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark, with its lighthouse listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Another branch of the federal government, the U.S. Department of the Interior, classifies the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard as a six out of seven — “good to excellent” — on its wind resource map.
Seeds Dangling High
From Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1959: