Commentary
May Days
Watersheds
Against a backdrop of national headlines over the massive and spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that appears to have no end, regional headlines over the city main break that left two million residents in the greater Boston area having to boil their drinking water, it was a weekend where water quality was very much in the news.
April is Holocaust remembrance month, and as part of our study of the history of the 20th century, we have been watching some films and reading some personal stories describing the horrible things that happened during the Nazi era in Germany. Working together with Ms. Holter’s class, we learned how to write “found poems” where you take ideas and concepts and words from written pieces and turn them into poems expressing the meaning in a very different, and more deep way.
The Cape Wind Decision
Just like the wind that is a nearly constant presence on the Island — it rattled the windows of gray-shingled houses this week with cold spring gusts that felt more like early March than late April — the debate over Cape Wind has blown in and out of the Cape and Islands for nine years.
Imagine coming home from being off-Island seeing family and friends, and opening your door to find an overpowering stench of home heating oil. Then you discover your basement floor is covered with oil that escaped from three tiny pinholes in your oil storage tank. This happened to us.
ATTEMPTED RESCUE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
At 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 24, my wife, Lauren Crosbie, called me on my cell phone. She was upset and proceeded to describe to me the seal that she and her friend Diane Levin had come across on a beach up-Island. The seal was tangled in some sort of a mat or rug and was in dire straits. It was dying and the surf was pounding.