Opinion
Indivisible Martha’s Vineyard, a local pro-democracy group, was criticized for participating in the Edgartown Fourth of July parade in a July 10 letter to the Gazette by Mark McGreenery.
There was a time when I couldn’t remember whether it was nilly-willy or willy-nilly.
From the Jul 18, 1967 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: If anyone wants to see a community in action, he really ought to attend a church fair such as that held Wednesday by the women of the West Tisbury Congregational Church Improvement Society.
I was inspired to write this after reading the letter submitted by Abigail Higgins of West Tisbury to the Vineyard Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
The bell rang, chairs scraped, and two students — last names close in the alphabet: Tom Dresser, Joyce Cournoyer — slid into their usual seats. They had shared homeroom for four years, served together in student government, but never really knew each other.
By removing all predators decades ago (bears, wolves, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, fishers, etc.) we changed the natural balance of the Island.