Commentary
This time of year gets crazy. I think the whole true meaning of Christmas has been forgotten. This Black Friday was even more crazy than in the past. People were killed! It’s disgusting that for the greed of a deal on a gift, a Wal Mart employee lost his life. Considering our economic issues, it is risky to be spending so much money. Christmas isn’t about presents, but it sure seems so. Before Thanksgiving, Christmas commercials about sales are playing. Christmas has become a commercial holiday.
December Days
The weather has been nothing short of changeable since the calendar turned to the last month of the year. Bitter cold settled over the Island early this week, creeping into every corner of the house and office and sending us scurrying for extra layers — lots of extra layers. Then suddenly it was warm again with rain and wind and ferries cancelled, interrupting holiday shoppers and soaking school children as they stepped off yellow buses and made a mad dash for home.
The Meaning of Cheer
At this time, as the holidays approach and the days are at their shortest, almost everyone is feeling somehow battered by economic fallout.
Fisheries management in New England is broken and here is just one small example of one of its glaring faults.
The Garage That Became a House
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I was crushed to hear that David Flanders died over Thanksgiving. He was one of my heroes. Not only a man of honor, but the best baseball player Chilmark ever had. He had a try-out with the Boston Red Sox but turned down a lucrative career to play summer ball on the Vineyard. His home-run powers were legendary — swatting towering fly balls that disappeared forever in the pines at Toomey’s Field.