Commentary
Sunday To-Do List: Call Mom
Just as there are stages of child development, there are stages of development in every child’s appreciation of her mother.
Small Turbines: Where to Put Them
Everybody wants one but nobody wants one in their neighbor’s back yard. This is the common theme when it comes to small wind turbines, which are starting to pop up all over the Island landscape.
And for those who can afford it, why not? Doing something that is good for the environment and good for your pocketbook in the long run is smart, sensible, and of course green.
The country and the world marked Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday on May 3 with a well- deserved bash in Madison Square Garden, and many local parties, to pay tribute to a beautiful human being. In his later years Pete has been recognized as an icon of peace, justice, the environment and the powerless. Because I have had a long association with him beginning in the late 1960s, and particularly during the 1970s, I was asked to make some remarks at our local event, at Featherstone on Sunday. Here’s some of what I said.
The media has been saturated with the gripping story of four athletes who went fishing off Clearwater, Fla. National Football League players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith along with former University of South Florida football players Will Bleakley and Nick Schuyler were thrown into the sea when their boat capsized.
A Merry Month
From earlier May Gazette editions:
May is here again with bird song and budding leaves. The month in Vineyard history has its unique significance, for it was on the 24th of May in the year 1602 that Bartholomew Gosnold in his “small barke” named Concord doubled a cape which he and his men called Dover Cliff on account of its great white outcroppings, later identified as Gay Head.
JUST THE FACTS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
We all expect that no good deed will go unpunished. That’s just the way it goes, right? But it seems reasonable to expect that those who administer the punishment will do it accurately.
The Gazette suggests that the houses at 250 State Road are estimated at $400 per square foot. Nothing could be further from the truth.