PROFILE IN COURAGE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

President Obama can add another chapter to John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage; a man willing to risk his political future by upholding his own principles.

David H. Frantz

Vineyard Haven

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WELCOME, MR. PRESIDENT

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following letter is addressed to President Obama and his family.

FROM QUANSOO ROAD

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

I was relieved to read that the Quansoo Beach Association membership took action to reconfigure its leadership. I am proud to have been in a leadership position on that same board a number of years ago. I found the various news reports of the Quansoo access conflict quite distressing during last winter’s months. It is the Vineyard after all and that kind of contentiousness is more often seen in the local political arena.

SPARE THE SERMON

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Long before writer Peter Beinart’s birth, some felt that the influx of Holocaust refugees in the 1940s threatened the enlightened goals of Israel’s founders. Then it was the waves of Jew refugees from Arab lands in the 1950s, Jews from the Soviet Union in the 1970s, and the black Jews of Ethiopia in this century — who all threatened the “unique character of the Jewish state.”

TURBINES NOW

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

CANCELLED APPEARANCE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Regarding the forum at the Chilmark Center this past Sunday on the 166 wind turbines proposed by Governor Patrick to be placed right off our shores near Noman’s and Cuttyhunk — we who live here year round were looking forward to the three candidates for governor expressing their views and answering our questions.

WITHOUT CAUSE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette: