Opinion
Last week, I had a visit from old friends John and Michelle Mackin who live in Greensboro, Vt. John is a carpenter and we spent three days together restoring two large bureaus in my home, me painting the drawers and John redoing the countertops. As John worked, I immediately noticed a sound I hear often when carpenters toil over their labor — a soft, tuneless whistling.
“What the hell?” I thought, “makes carpenters so happy to be using their tools?”
Need a French-themed fundraiser for language students hoping to travel to France next spring school vacation? How about pizza night at the Orange Peel bakery in Aquinnah?
If you think pizza isn’t particularly French, consider this: France is the second-biggest consumer of pizza in the world. (The U.S. comes first; Italy only a distant third.) Furthermore, a French chef currently holds the title for the world’s best pizza recipe, with a topping featuring fois gras.
INFORMATION, PLEASE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Windy Days
From Gazette editions of October, 1985:
Little to Fight About
It began with an idea, a concept really, followed by a fight, the ordinary course of doing business on the Vineyard, where good things are rarely accomplished without a fight.
Editor’s Note: The proposal to build a fish pier in Oak Bluffs has generated dozens of letters to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which is reviewing the project as a development of regional impact (DRI). Most of the letters favor the pier. What follows is an edited selection.
A Grandmother’s Endorsement
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
As a grandmother who lives in Oak Bluffs, I feel that the fishing pier near the SSA would be a great asset to children and adults alike.