Commentary
It was a perfect New York art storm — Kandinsky, the Bauhaus, Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Hockney and Richard Serra — for starters. And it was all happening as winter gales descended on the rock, a good time to get away.
My cousin Lanny McDowell and I fought our way through Wednesday’s snowstorm, passing three jackknifed trucks and at least two cars nosed into snow banks (one of them a state police patrol vehicle) to arrive in late afternoon. Two days wasn’t nearly enough. What follows is a sample.
The Fifty-Year Plan
Islanders, we have a plan.
Of course, even the planners — in this case the Martha’s Vineyard Commission — took pains to call the Island Plan, adopted last Thursday, “a dynamic living document . . . for guidance and inspiration.”
December Days
So, you promised to make Christmas cookies with the kids, but you’re feeling rather Scrooge-like.
This past Tuesday, Omar and I attended the graduation of the little public school in Pacaya, where we teach English classes for free every Saturday. Many of our students were graduating from the sixth grade and will be attending high school, a huge victory in a poor neighborhood where children are often put to work as young as the age of three to sell tortillas or bread.
Redesigning Bradley Square
Launched with much fanfare in August at a ceremonial groundbreaking that included Gov. Deval Patrick, Bradley Square, the celebrated project of the Island Affordable Housing Fund, is foundering.