Opinion
On behalf of the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard I wish to publicly thank some very amazing young people who are summer visitors to the Vineyard.
The reference point of viewing development from Google Earth is both relevant and irrelevant, relevant in that the Island only has a limited amount of resources, but irrelevant in that people view the Island from street level.
My wife and I read the Gazette quite thoroughly when it arrives each week at our home in Boston, but neither one of us can recall any news stories concerning the declared bankruptcy of Edgartown and Oak Bluffs.
Each summer, for over 54 years, the Vineyard community has made it possible for the Friends of the West Tisbury Library to raise money in support of our library. This August, we sold $21,000 worth of books.
In our Chilmark yard the trees reach higher and higher to the sky. The old timers in the town told us that many years ago our land was a pasture for grazing cattle owned by local farmers.
I saw a Monarch butterfly
Just now inside the park
And thought of the unlikelihood of Mexico
Where his breed is bound to go.