Opinion
October, 1960: It was a time of optimism. (How quaint, but how refreshing.) It was a time when change actually looked like it was going to happen — and not for the worse.
Shallow draft, a whisker between her keel and sandy flat, Softly she slides over a thousand, steamer holes, Eel grass tickles the sweet, clear grain, shaped to steer and keep this cat on course.
The School of Creative Arts (SOCA) was another planet, an experience that began 65 years ago.
Three years ago, two good friends and I went to Puerto Rico. I had been there once with my husband back in 1992 for a quick stay before boarding a modest-sized cruise ship for a sampling of the islands.
At the July 26 meeting of the trustees of the Vineyard Haven Library, selectmen and members of the public expressed objections to the plan to build a function room over the library’s garden.
The arrival of a casual guest at a hotel, inn or private dwelling no longer signifies the completion of an arduous journey.