In W.R. Deeble’s latest letter, he carpet bombs Fox News, but then admits: “The recent budget deadlock . . . can be blamed on adherence to principle on both sides.” Republicans “just claim they are protecting the people against an unpopular, ruinous, radical agenda.”

This year’s Martha’s Vineyard Wind Festival was full of surprises. The morning was full of promise The weather was reported to be dry and breezy along the coast. The tent was set up for kite building. Kids arrived to build kites and although it was really breezy, our volunteers had a good time working along with the kids to get the kites aloft.

The Save The Gay Head Lighthouse committee would like to thank everyone who helped to make the first annual Gay Head 10K, A Race Against Time, the resounding success that it was.

Giant tour buses line up outside the visitor center in Edgartown, letting out scores of tourists who wander streets where leaves now fall thickly and stray roses still bloom on fences like summer holdouts. Along the Beach Road in Oak Bluffs fishermen of all ages cast into the chilly, wind-roughened waters as the derby enters its final days.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1846: Place a bone across a pork rind, and you have “Bony part crossing the Rhine.” This is termed “Illustrated History.”