Opinion
Protecting the Copeland District
Famous for its distinctive Victorian style, Oak Bluffs is a town of parks ringed by neighborhoods of Gothic Carpenter cottages and homes, their porches situated with views across parklands or the sea. As many people know, the history of this architectural style and village design is rooted in the Methodist camp meetings of the mid and late nineteenth century.
More Things Change . . .
From Gazette editions of January, 1985:
With snow still here and there in West Tisbury, I went walking on Wednesday along the Mill Pond. Main roads, of course, have been swept clean, but in woods and fields there remains snow to crunch through — a favorite winter pastime of mine. And it crossed my mind that there was likely to still be untrammeled snow beside the Mill Pond where the Allen M. Look memorial bench sits, honoring that late selectman who served his town from 1969 until his death in 1977.
Editor’s Note: Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, elected on a platform of change, on Jan. 20, 2009. He took the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as the country confronted its gravest set of circumstances in at least a generation.
Expectations, Promises, Friendship
By Ana Nascimento
Four days ago, we said goodbye to 2009 and welcomed 2010. For lots of people 2009 was a year of losses and sadness, but 2009 also made lots of people happy. I bet people never stopped to think about all the good things that happened in 2009. They just couldn’t wait for 2010.
He was the quiet Islander, the longtime town attorney who had seen it all. I was the cub reporter stomping up the stairs to my office, shoulder bag stuffed with soft-lead pencils and notebooks filled with scribbles from some selectmen’s meeting, ready to be banged into a short story that the editors at the Cape Cod Times would inevitably make shorter by the time it appeared in print.