Opinion
In 1978, best friends, Ed Coogan and Michael Wild “decided to invent an event and maybe have another drink."
In a first of hopefully many for the new ownership of the Square Rigger restaurant in Edgartown, they created a wedding dinner reception on Monday, Sept. 8 that out-performed anything we could have asked for.
Live theatre is a gamble, but I was ready to take a chance when I purchased tickets to Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse.
From the September 12, 1947 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Of the scores of fishing derbies now being held, or about to open along the Atlantic coast, the Vineyard event is the largest of all, in point of preparation, publicity and prizes.
With his riveting piece in last week’s Vineyard Gazette, operations manager Jim Pfeiffer set the tone for a birthday bash unlike any scene on Davis Lane in Edgartown history.
Well, we made it through another summer — more people, more ticks, more tick-related diseases, more tick talks, more hand wringing about solutions.