I acknowledge that book reviews are a valuable service of a newspaper as professional as the Vineyard Gazette. However, I object to the printing of a photograph of Mr. Smiley with the review on August 1 of Mr. Blanding’s book, The Map Thief.

I would like to take this opportunity to fill in a missing chapter to the author’s book [about] Forbes Smiley 3rd, The Map Thief. With the funds that Mr. Forbes stole, he built an elaborate home here on the Island.

Mr. Obama and his associates perpetually, and on a daily basis, exceed themselves in reaching new and dizzying heights of narcissism, arrogance, prevarication and abject lawlessness.

A heartfelt thanks to the individual who left the gift on our car at State Beach this past week. Imagine our surprise when, after the perfect beach day, we got to our vehicle to find that you had backed into us.

After nearly six years of the Obama presidency, we have a definitive track record from which to study and critique. The evidence clearly suggests he is failing. His poll numbers continue to drop to record lows.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 2, 1985: It is difficult today to imagine a Vineyard which not only fed itself, but produced a substantial surplus which it exported to the mainland.