Opinion
Oak Bluffs recreational shellfishermen were out Saturday morning at Sengekontacket Pond, a happy day, because it was opening weekend for family scalloping. And while there were not a lot of scallops to find, for most it was reason enough to get out on the water in the bright autumn sunshine.
Editor’s Note: The following was published in Moshup’s Footsteps, a 2001 book of recollections and short essays by the late Helen Manning of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Cranberry Day, an annual celebration of the Wampanoag people, will be celebrated on Tuesday, Oct. 12. The piece appears here with permission.
I remember so many things about when I went to America; I missed so many things about Brazil. I felt like I didn’t belong in America because things were so different. I can say that I had the worst first day of school on Sept. 5, 2005. My first impressions of America were, “Wow, what a beautiful place,” but making American friends was the hardest part of moving there.
What is the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living? Originally called the Island Councils on Aging, the Center for Living has served Islanders who are 55 and over for almost 40 years. In 2009, the name was changed to the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living to eliminate confusion and more importantly to change the focus from aging to living. The program continues to be a partner with the town councils on aging and other organizations serving Islanders 55 and older.
LONG OVERDUE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission:
Lyme Epidemic
The night sweats, the fever, the bullseye rash: the symptoms of Lyme disease are all too familiar to people on Martha’s Vineyard, where the disease is epidemic. Many Islanders are ready with prophylactic antibiotics when they find a pinhead-sized black arachnid clinging on their skin. What was not even recognized a generation ago has become the most common vector-borne (that is, spread by a host such as a mosquito, or in this case, a tick) disease in America.