Olivia Jacobs is the salutatorian for the MVRHS class of 2016. The following is the speech she gave at the graduation ceremony.

Over the past few years, the four largest Steamship Authority ferries have acquired historic steamboat whistles.

We were walking down Main street in Vineyard Haven, her mother and I, just where the stores start, where the sidewalk is still a little downhill.

I’m 13 years into my academic career at MVPCS and still not sick of the place.

When Hokule’a sails into Vineyard Haven on June 28, the captain and navigator Bruce Blankenfeld will guide her to Tisbury Wharf.

In 1977 I read Be Here Now, the landmark hippie book by Ram Dass that started a spiritual revolution.