Riding on Empty

Somewhere between the stable dirt and the saddle, girls who love horses find the women they will become. Up there, it’s not about being a girl. Riding requires toughness and gentleness, strength and smarts — characteristics that do not always sit easily together in a young girl’s world.

LYME SCIENCE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Despite what your story (Uneasiness Over Lyme Disease Spreads, August 15) suggests, the science behind the Lyme disease guidelines issued by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has never been in question and the guidelines remain in place today.

SPEAK OUT

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Island Plan for the Future

How much and how should the Vineyard grow?

This is the question that has been posed by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and will be addressed tomorrow night at a public forum at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury, marking the second to last in a series of community discussions that have been held throughout the summer as part of the Island Plan, a fifty-year comprehensive plan for the Island.

The Lash house has come down. It took Roger Allen six months to build but just two days for one man and a big John Deere excavator to demolish. And now only the sentinel chimney remains, but soon enough it too will be gone, tumbled down in a cloud of dust.

Moving to Maine

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of 1933:

Who on Martha’s Vineyard has paid a visit to New Vineyard, Maine? Who, among the many thousands journeying to the Island every year and taking an interest in its scene, its history and its people, knows that there is a place named New Vineyard and that it was settled by emigrants from the Island long ago and named in honor of Martha’s Vineyard?