Opinion
For twenty years you have held me through thick and thin, season after season.
From the June 11, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Some of the ways and roads most used by the motorists of the Vineyard in this generation did not exist a century ago.
Em Elliott — the familiar form of Emulous C. (for Carter) Elliott — of Edgartown was talking the other day about his steamboat days.
These days the Island is getting caught up in the excitement of the Jaws 50th anniversary. However, veteran Vineyard anglers still tell stories about a true denizen of the deep.
Old age swaddled him like a heavy garment. I watched as without moving he reacted to the sounds and sights of things goings on around him.
The recent news reports concerning the trial use of second-generation biodiesel for the June through August runs of the Island Home is a small but encouraging step for the Steamship Authority.