Opinion
Summer season
Martha’s Vineyard
Riding the ferry in
Perfect sunset
Happy for a new vacation to begin
But I know some things always stay the same
Livingston, Ben and Sally Taylor will all have concerts
Every day
They’ll be coming around againYou pay the grocer
Make mimosas
Go up-Island for the day
You see a poster
On a telephone pole
Ben and Sally Taylor are playing
In Vineyard Haven today
Didn’t they just play there yesterday?
On a dog day this summer, I paid a visit to Oak Bluffs. With midsummer traffic, it’s a bit of a jaunt from West Tisbury where I now live, but Oak Bluffs is on the water and West Tisbury center isn’t, and getting a glimpse of boats and a harbor seemed a cooling and inviting prospect. My Saturday afternoon stroll along the harbor and Circuit avenue brought back many memories.
When I heard the sad news that famed British broadcaster Sir David Frost had died, I went to my bookshelf and pulled down a yellowed $1.45 Vintage paperback, The Immense Journey, by the great American anthropologist and author Dr. Loren Eiseley.
From the Sept. 15, 1989 Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton: Well, we did it. Survived the summer, that is. The hardest part of living at a summer resort is getting through the summer. It ain’t easy. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the sunshine, the sailing, the beaches.
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1977: The first of Will Hardy’s Songs of Martha’s Vineyard — this being the title under which words and music have now been collected and reprinted — was composed in 1911 and the last in 1928. That was quite a spread of years, crossing from one historic social era to another, from the final phase of the innocent age that ended in the First World War to the eve of the Great Depression.
B.E.T. recently held its annual party at Hook’s (formerly Lola’s) in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. The evening was illuminated by a starlit sky, and the spirits and energy of those in attendance were shining just as bright.