Opinion
The Chilmark All-Star Game will be played Sunday, July 13. The players are chosen by secret ballot on a location near Abel’s Hill.
This week I witnessed a number of near accidents and arrived just after a fender bender in two different parking lots.
Empty classrooms are strange places: silent rows of desks and artwork that once looked so pristine and was a source of pride now faded and lifeless without its proud creators. Schools so full of energy, sometimes muted and restrained like a force field and sometimes buoyant, but always humming from September to June, fall suddenly quiet and the business of winding it all down begins.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of July 9, 1940: The first steamboat companies organized to serve Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket were financed by Island capital and were managed by Islanders.
It might not be obvious, but right from the start in 1950, the Steamship Authority has followed fairly clear lines of thought when it comes to naming ferries and freight boats.
Early summer arrived like a small lurch on the Vineyard this year, as if someone had hit the gas pedal a little too hard. Clear June days with warm sunshine and cool evenings beneath star-splashed inky skies are in the rearview mirror now, replaced by the heat and humidity that portend the long, lazy beach days of July. The landscape is dry and muted with fewer wildflowers than usual due to lack of rain. And everywhere you look, the pace of life has changed.