The dance of the sprinklers is just that — a dance. From the front porch, to across the street, to the growing fields of Morning Glory Farm, I watch the sprinklers as they dance across the horizon, in the light, in the wind, in the setting sun, and back and forth as they intertwine their arms of spray, as they sashay in and out of each other, doing the rumba or the mambo or even a little rock and roll. Their rhythm is perfection as they water the crops that all of us will eat and enjoy. Talk about buying local; this is as local as local gets.

Forks in a Rural Road

There are deepening divisions on Chappaquiddick over whether a bike path should be built on the tiny rural island that lies off the extreme eastern end of Edgartown. Indeed, the debate over the Chappy bike path has continued for more than thirty years, but the discussion has taken on more urgency in recent months and weeks and landed in front of the Edgartown selectmen again.

TONE DOWN RHETORIC

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Much is being made of the recent arrest of Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his own home in Cambridge. And indeed, Professor Gates being African American and the arresting officer being white, the case is fraught with racial symbolism. Even President Barack Obama has become embroiled in the controversy, making remarks critical of the actions of Cambridge police.

In his commentary in last Friday’s Gazette, Prof . Lawrence Harrison made several observations and presumptions about the episode between Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley that cannot go unchallenged.

Blueberry Obsession