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Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Register to Vote!
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
A year ago the League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard held committee meetings to create a plan for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the enactment of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the power of the vote. Events, speakers, parades and sashes were created.
Then the coronavirus happened. Lots of plans evaporated.
But getting out the vote remains our mandate.
Earlier this week I listened to three former American Presidents eulogize John Lewis.
In May 2018, I saw a documentary called Paper Lanterns. It tells the story of Shigeaki Mori’s research to identify 12 American soldiers who had died when the first atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima.
“Scaupaug” is what the Wampanoags called this fish in the long ago.
Back in early March, my two boys, Owen and Rye, were doing the typical sibling stuff. You know, sharing backseat snacks and squabbling over whose turn it was to set the table.