Opinion
Last summer I began to attend meetings about a proposed project in Chilmark. The proposal is multifaceted and includes extending the Squibnocket town beach, building a parking lot on a barrier dune area and the construction of a bridge to the former Hornblower property now known as Squibnocket Farms.
Thoughts of a fabulous sea serpent came to the fore when Capt. Claude Wagner, skipper of the schooner Liberty of Edgartown, reported sighting a strange sea monster last Saturday.
Donnie used to think of himself as something of a curmudgeon and I wasn’t about to argue the point with him, but somewhere along the way I figured out that it was just a ruse.
There hasn’t been a peep yet from the spring peepers. Who can blame the wee frogs, though. Spring may have officially arrived yesterday, but winter hasn’t really ceded much ground yet.
What can be done to honor public service and encourage more of our citizens to enter into the contact sport of politics? We don’t have the answer, but perhaps our readers do.
I realize now that Uncle Louis’ passing hurts a lot — for the usual reasons like him just not being here, but also because this is the final scene by a remarkable generation of individuals.