Opinion
Editor’s Note: What follows is an oral history recorded by Linsey Lee from Hector Asselin of Vineyard Haven. Titled Everywhere You Looked There Was an Airplane, the account is of the World War II Naval Air Station on the Vineyard. It was included in the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s exhibit Those Who Served which ran from spring 2009 until Labor Day of this year. The accounts will be published in an upcoming booklet and also will be posted on the museum’s Web site mvmuseum.org. Ms.
W hat should we do about Mill Pond?
The discussion presented last Saturday by Beth Lambert, the river restoration program coordinator for the commonwealth’s Division of Ecological Restoration offered a new perspective and other possibilities for us to consider. I want to thank Prudy Burt and the West Tisbury Library staff for hosting this talk. After listening, there appear to be more options available to the town that are worthy of discussion.
QUESTIONABLE ARTICLE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
At Loggerheads
From November, 1985 Gazette editions:
U.S. Congressman Gerry Studds told a crowd of more than 100 in Tisbury that on the way to the Vineyard he saw a rainbow. From the sound of how things went in Washington the previous week, he needed it. The gloomy news of a federal budget still suffering from chronic imbalance and Coast Guard belt-tightening measures that left the coast unprotected from drug running and illegal fishing fit right in with the gray day.
Recovery at a Snail’s Pace
The word economy — as in “the sluggish economy” — comes across as an abstraction. But an economy is made up of people, and the Island’s economy more than ever seems to be separating into two groups of people farther and farther apart.
Families Helping Families