Opinion
When people think about what they have to be grateful for in their lives here on Martha’s Vineyard, few would argue that a good home is near the top of the list.
It is probably true that civilization is built on tradition. Even if it isn’t, traditions are nice, sweet and sentimental. People like them. They also use them as excuses for doing things that they can’t think of any logical reason for doing.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Nov. 15, 1929: This is the season of the year when all the Vineyard goes scalloping. The toothsome bivalves spatter and flit along the surface of the water in every cove along the marshy shores of the great ponds.
The following was excerpted from an article written on Nov. 18, 1988 by Gazette reporter Mike Kolleth just before Coach Donald Herman’s first Island Cup Game.
One of the questions I have dreaded for the last four years is, “Do you have kids?”
Beyond the economic forces and aesthetic values that will drive interest in restoring eroding beaches at any cost, there is also a serious environmental argument in favor of beach nourishment via the addition of sand taken from elsewhere.