Opinion
As a summer visitor to the Vineyard for over a quarter-century I have always noticed the changes on the Island, but the character and the beauty of the Island have remained intact and I never thought of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s role.
Bob Jackson’s obituary appearing last week said simply that: “he was active in land conservation projects on Martha’s Vineyard.” This is a classic understatement if ever there was one.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Jan. 7, 1972: What of 1972, upon the track of which we have so freshly started?
Every Christmas on Martha’s Vineyard is an old fashioned Christmas, even though the observance came relatively late to New England. The three youths who advanced to the front of a platform in an Island school and sang with voices hardly breaking at all, We Three Kings of Israel Are, were pioneers.
'Twas Christmas Eve and Santa Claus was readying for his trip to see his Vineyard friends, of course, but traveling not by ship, nor ferry boat nor freight boat nor on the Island Queen. He comes by air each Christmastide thanks to his reindeer team.
"Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!" That’s how my grandmother, Addie Crist, would greet me when she came to visit my parents and me for the holidays.