I get to meet many a sweet soul as they pass by my window at the West Tisbury transfer station.

I get to meet many a sweet soul as they pass by my window at the West Tisbury transfer station.

Editors, Vineyard Gazette;

I learned today of the passing of Barbara Murphy, my beloved MVRHS Spanish teacher, and later my colleague and department chair, friend and fellow

Barbara Murphy and I met in the fall of 1976 when I began teaching at MVRHS and she was completing her first year there.

Humans, as a species, have over the course of history brought great change to the planet, mostly at the cost of fragile ecosystems around the globe.