Opinion
From the January 17, 1930 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
As a long-time Vineyarder and as someone with a career in marine operations, naval architecture and design, I have followed the SSA and its evolution through different boards, managers and staff.
The Edgartown historic district commission (HDC) last week wisely resisted a proposal from the new owner of 81 South Water street.
It was one of those late Indian summer days in early November and I was in my canoe, the one that cannot sink, on Forest Lake near the Canadian border waiting for some ducks to come in.
I’m not a doctor. I’m a serial entrepreneur with my share of losses and wins. I’ve spent summers on the Vineyard my entire life.
When I reached the top of Slide Mountain many winters ago, I found a small plaque to Catskills nature writer John Burroughs declaring that, from here, “the works of man dwindle.”