Bettye Foster Baker
There are times in our lives when incidents in the lives of people we do not know take on such profound meaning that we want to learn more. For me that came through a conversation with my husband, Bill Baker. He had heard the Very Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski, dean of The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York city, speak at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs.
The story the dean told in the church was so powerful that I felt an imperative to speak with him personally. I wanted to know more of this story.
The old America I knew took a hike last week and a new America emerged before my unbelieving eyes at approximately 9:30 in the evening. That was the hour my belief system was turned upside-down, when Barack Obama was projected to win the Iowa caucuses and it was extraordinary.
When we think of the Polar Bears of Martha's Vineyard we think of tradition, acceptance,friendship, and now transition.