Commentary
The Road to Sagarmatha, by Adam Wilson, Xlibris Corporation, Indianapolis, IN 2011, 284 pages, hardcover, $29.99.
WAKE UP TIME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Liz Durkee has done our Island community a huge service with her informative and well-researched articles in the Gazette on global warming and climate change. Her passion is to get us thinking on how to prepare for this inevitable future. If you have missed them, check them out on the Gazette Web site. They serve as an important wake-up call.
By ARLEN WESTBROOK
From Gazette post office files:
What splashes of color RFD mailboxes add to the landscape today. There are red mailboxes, blue, lion-yellow. There are mailboxes with whale’s tails painted whimsically on them, with lobster decorations, adorned with a smiling sun. There are mailboxes painted to resemble houses, striped mailboxes and mailboxes that look like the American flag.
Full Steam
From Gazette editions of June, 1936:
No Overtime for Tri-Town Resolution
The magnificent victory of the Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals this week had us talking about hockey and ice skating, and the conversation turned as these things will to the question of whether it is easier to skate forwards or backwards. This, it seems, is a matter of opinion, some of which can get quite vehement. Is it a function of the kind of skating you do or how you were trained? Or is there a right-brain, left-brain predisposition at work?