Opinion
25 Years Ago
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of February, 1983:
As a teacher of history I studied many presidencies.
I have recently been the recipient of one of those fantastical e-mail chain letters being broadly circulated these days titled Who Is Barack Obama? Full of untruths, it anonymously warns us about Obama’s secret allegiance to radical Muslims’ beliefs, and while attacking Barack’s Christian faith and deep patriotism, the e-mail assures us that its assertions are all supposedly verified by the rumor site snopes.com. This is untrue: a check on that Web site refutes the e-mail.
An open letter to Sens. John Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy:
As a journalist, voter, part-time Vineyarder and full-time Democrat, I’m writing to urge you to produce the removed 120 pages of The Barrett Report before they foment a ruinous political scandal.
Hello to all our readers. We have just finished an exhausting week of midterm exams and this week we share with you some of our issues and interests. We hope you enjoy our writing, and we’ll be back in two weeks.
— Dr. W’s Sophomore Classes
Sweet Peace — Ethical Chocolate
By Solvig Sayre
First Snowfall
It was and it wasn’t. The first snow, that is.
There was some in December, of course, and a little more in January. But it came in dustings and icy, crusty, sleety blasts.
On Sunday the Island had its first real snowfall of the winter. The day dawned slate gray, as if nature had drained all color from the landscape. The air was still and flat.
In late morning a few tiny flakes began to fall.