Opinion
Autumn’s back, courting dreams.
Just off the coast of Noman’s Land is a rock that once rested on the island.
From the Oct. 8, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
In the vernacular of the old Vineyard, the word gimcrack covered even more than a multitude of sins, and some of them were sins indeed though committed, no doubt, with the most lofty of intentions.
As autumn arrives on Martha’s Vineyard and we feel the temperatures slowly drop, we begin to think about the colder months ahead.
As I watch my native California burn, yet again, I ponder the possibilities of a Vineyard burn.
One of the positive ironies of the Covid era is the way it has cast a spotlight on Martha’s Vineyard’s homeless problem.