Commentary
Commencement 2011
Graduating seniors at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will march down the aisle of the historic Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, and though the forecast is iffy, with luck they will walk between storms. No matter the weather. These students, like those at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, who graduated with the sun shining on them last weekend, are used to change.
SKATE CAMP CLARIFICATION
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
We were eager and honored to have our camp included in this year’s Vineyard summer camp round up (“Kids Are All Right With So Many Island Camps,” June 3.) And while it’s exciting to see such an artful lead photograph depicting a young and talented skateboarder, we were disappointed to find the content of the photograph and caption below to be irresponsibly misleading.
On the Boards
From Gazette editions of June, 1986:
From a Summer, 1992 Gazette:
“Edgartown, sometimes called Old Town, August 7, 1849. Half past five in the morning, and not another soul up in the house. A little rain last night, but a pretty fair and cool morning.” So wrote Daniel Webster at the Gibbs House in Edgartown on his second visit to the Vineyard. He had made one stay in Edgartown July 4, 1848, but no mention of the trip found its way into the Gazette.
GOOD FENCE VIEWERS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Editor’s Note: The Wampanoag Tribe of Martha’s Vineyard: Colonization to Recognition, is a newly published book by Thomas Dresser of Oak Bluffs. What follows is an excerpt from the chapter Sachems Under Duress. It appears here with permission from the author.