Protecting the Copeland District

Famous for its distinctive Victorian style, Oak Bluffs is a town of parks ringed by neighborhoods of Gothic Carpenter cottages and homes, their porches situated with views across parklands or the sea. As many people know, the history of this architectural style and village design is rooted in the Methodist camp meetings of the mid and late nineteenth century.

Editor’s Note: Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, elected on a platform of change, on Jan. 20, 2009. He took the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as the country confronted its gravest set of circumstances in at least a generation.

VOTE TUESDAY

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

On the last day of President Obama’s first year in office, the voters of Massachusetts have the opportunity to elect our first female senator. Attorney General Martha Coakley is the Democratic candidate to complete the term of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and continue his ideals.

With snow still here and there in West Tisbury, I went walking on Wednesday along the Mill Pond. Main roads, of course, have been swept clean, but in woods and fields there remains snow to crunch through — a favorite winter pastime of mine. And it crossed my mind that there was likely to still be untrammeled snow beside the Mill Pond where the Allen M. Look memorial bench sits, honoring that late selectman who served his town from 1969 until his death in 1977.

More Things Change . . .

From Gazette editions of January, 1985: