Unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to enjoy winter at arm’s length. As reported in the last edition of the Gazette, there are approximately one hundred and sixty homeless people on the Vineyard.

On the Vineyard every aspect of life revolves around the seasons, and perhaps none more so than business life. In summer the Island is bustling with commerce. In winter of course the predominant theme is closed for business.

Fiercely independent, financially inefficient and charmingly parochial, the six towns on the Vineyard have a long history of shunning regional enterprises.

A steward of the state forest who traced his roots to the Buckeye State and loved the outdoors, motorcycles and above all his family.

It would seem self-evident that a key goal of conservation is to protect land from the effects of too much human interference. Certainly that was Teddy Roosevelt’s vision a century ago when one the country’s best-known hunters became its most ardent conservationist.

Nature seems to whisper during a snowstorm as a blanketing hush falls over the land, sky and sea.