Memorial Day weekend has come, and gone, and with it a significant milestone — the ground nesting and shore birds are well into their nesting season.

The skyline of the most recent issue of the Vineyard Gazette was a quote from Sly Stone taken from the lyrics of Sly and the Family Stone’s wonderful song Those Summer Days.

We have owned a house in Vineyard Haven since 2005, we live in a small town in upstate New York similar to MV.

The surprising personal criticisms of Jim Malkin, the Vineyard’s recently appointed SSA governor and chairman of the board, by three of the four other governors, do not bode well for righting the listing SSA ship.

Perhaps the covid 19 pandemic and gauge for human safety and activity is analogous to the phases of fog density:

I read with relief and affection the op-ed by Dr. Henry Nieder, and the letter from Julia Mitchell Christensen.