Buried Treasure

From a 1967 article by Joseph Chase Allen:

The wild duck and goose on passage may well look down in surprise to see this pond. An acre, perhaps an acre and a half in area, it is so close to the waters of Vineyard Sound that hurricanes have always driven the sea through gaps in the sand dunes to flood the narrow deep valley beyond and to swell this pond to unusual proportions.

Winter’s Icy Grip

We know where we live this winter for sure: This is New England, no doubt about it, the place where if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute and it will change.

Sheriff McCormack’s Bad Call

Cottage City Coffers on Empty

The financial crisis that has been gathering for three years in Oak Bluffs appears to be deepening, with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue throwing down the latest penalty flag on the field: The town must cut nearly a quarter of a million dollars from its current fiscal year budget before the tax rate can be set. Revenue projections are off — way off. And why? There is no coherent explanation and that is the most troubling part of the story.

Digging In

From Gazette editions of January, 1986:

Honoring a Man and His Dream

As the nation grieves over those lives lost in an assassination attempt on Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, we will honor on Monday the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whose dreams were left unrealized when a gunman’s bullet felled him in the prime of his life.

He would have been eighty-two years old.