Commentary
SAVE THE FARM
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Coming back to the Vineyard after a few days on the Cape, I realized that one of the things to which I was most looking forward was picking up our Community Supported Agriculture farm share tomorrow.
By Art Railton, from his ‘Just a Thought’ columns, as published in the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1991:
I’m a television weather buff, a compulsive channel switcher, trying to find out for sure what tomorrow’s weather will be. I just can’t get enough of those satellite shots. And no wonder. After 20 minutes of fires in a Pawtucket three-decker, or a car wrapped around a tree in Kingston, or a half-dozen Boston detectives gloating over a $1 million drug haul, I relish something cheerful.
A Dredge With Potential
A century ago Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs was a heady combination of sights, sounds and smells in the summertime. Exotic souvenirs, local produce and colorful parades were a visual delight. The sound of clattering hoofbeats contrasted with the sputtering of early automobiles. The aroma of spices from all over the world blended with the smell of fresh fruits and recently caught fish.
DESIGNATION PITFALLS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Abundant wind power, with no fuel cost, is destined to replace the most expensive source of electrical generation — and that is from oil-fueled power plants.
Allow me to explain. In New England, unlike the rest of the country, oil-generated electricity plays a large but diminishing role. Almost a quarter of the installed capacity of all power plants here use oil as fuel.