My Hide and Seek Pencil

Even tho’ I keep a pencil by

my phone

Ready to use in case of need

I find that I should have had its clone

Since a readied pencil is a

Special breed.

Ring Ring Hello! Yes I’ll get a

Pencil

Oh! Where is it? Oh Where?

I start becoming apprehensial.

It’s not here! It’s not there!

I’m the very model of the modern man. And I proved it recently when I made my debut as a model at a women’s jewelry show.

LIGHTS OUT

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Tomorrow, Saturday night, March 29, is Lights Out Martha’s Vineyard from 8 to 9 p.m. We encourage every Islander to participate by turning out lights for this one hour to raise awareness about energy conservation.

We won’t clam up.

We oppose the 31 per cent cut of high school performing arts classes. We offer proposals that will hold off those cuts and strengthen performing arts without raising our taxes. Will you help us?

Finding Common Ground

Dr. Martin Luther King said it forty-five years ago: “At eleven o’clock on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation. This is tragic. Nobody of honesty can overlook this.”

Farming the Land

The agricultural renaissance on the Vineyard has shown the Island not only is a fertile place to raise crops and livestock, but also a place where a thriving informal network of woman farmers has grown.

The resurgence, in fact, taps some very old roots. When Vineyard men went to sea in past centuries, Vineyard women ran the farms.