First Family Footprints

Tuesdays Will be Different

Labor Day is next week and now the season begins to change. This is the season of decrescendo, when the swamp maples turn red, wild grapes and beach plums ripen and bluefish begin to run again near the shore.

This feels like an only on Martha’s Vineyard story. Two weeks before the doors to my daughter’s school open for students, the cafeteria and gym are filled with reporters from around the globe. They await the arrival of President Obama and Ben Bernanke, who, after negotiating the narrow two-lane roads leading to the school, on an Island without one traffic light, arrive at the Oak Bluffs School by motorcade. Once inside, the President announces he is reappointing Bernanke for a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Boston MedFlight would like to comment on the recent article titled Air Space Restrictions Disrupt Angel Flights Service After All, published on August 25.

As the sun bathes the beach and the dunes in early morning light, I drink my first cup of coffee and see a Coast Guard cutter patrolling up and down the ocean shore in place of the familiar fishing trawlers. It must be looking for those radical fundamentalists who have swum across the Atlantic with scimitars in their teeth.

Edward M. Kennedy: 1932-2009