Murder on MV

From Gazette editions of September, 1935:

Holiday Snapshots

Two trips to the beach, one family bike ride, three dinners out and roughly eighty-one holes of golf. One trip to the bookstore, one rainy day lunch. A couple of hours of pickup basketball at the Oak Bluffs School gymnasium. A game of Scrabble with an old friend (the President won). A quiet conversation with New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg around the links at the Vineyard Golf Club. A plate of fried shrimp and a cold beer overlooking the busy Oak Bluffs harbor on an August day.

REQuiEM FOR VALORA

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Last Monday the schooner Valora was lost after she broke from her mooring outside Vineyard Haven and went up on the breakwater. Friends often heard me say that you never really own a boat like Valora, you just take care of her for future generations. I certainly expected her to outlive me — sadly, this will not be so.

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The following letter was sent to the president, vice president and board chairman of The Trustees of Reservations, signed by 27 Chappaquiddick residents:

From Gazette editions of late summer, 1935:

It’s nearly that time of year. Yellow busses roll, the flashing lights warn caution. Maybe there’s a bigger message here. We’re in the Internet age and bullying has come full circle. Even while school was out this summer, Newsweek ran a piece about how to curb school bullying in Massachusetts. There was a picture of one of the bullies accused in a suicide of a high school teen in this state. She was wearing a Black Dog sweatshirt. That gave me pause to think.