Opinion
The scene: a corridor in the Congress Hotel, Chicago. The time: mid-afternoon on a sultry July day in 1952. The cast: four or five radio reporters, a Chicago Tribune staffer, a photographer and a couple of reporters from the Associated Press and United Press. An air of expectation hovers over the scene.
PIVOTAL CHOICE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to the Dukes County Commission:
Speaking as friends of the county, we believe that the manner in which the county commissioners fill the unexpired term of Paul Strauss will be both pivotal and crucial.
Recently I was privileged to see a per formance of End Days written by Deborah Zoe Laufer and directed by Claudia Weill at the Vineyard Playhouse. This quirky family comedy underscores the vulnerabilities and aspirations of human beings who have survived trauma and the threat of annihilation. We laugh with the characters, who include a pious and ever-patient Jesus and Stephen Hawking as the marijuana-induced hallucination of Rachel, a disaffected, black-clad teen.
Diving for Dollars
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1983:
Every day during the summer a small band of young swimmers gathers at the beach near the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority wharf. Wearing underwater masks, and fins in some cases, they tread water and await the arriving boats from the mainland.
Shine a Light
On an Island where the dire lack of low and moderately priced housing is a perennial issue, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is right to require a public hearing on an affordable housing proposal from the developers of the Field Club in Edgartown.
Sheriff’s Meadow: Tracking the Future
This has been a painful summer for the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, the venerable Island conservation organization that was rocked at the outset of the season by the revelation that two of its signature sanctuaries had been dug up by an Island landscaper who was transporting native plants to a private property on the West Tisbury North Shore.