Commentary
SQUARE SUPPORT
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter is being sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission:
We are writing this letter in support of the Bradley Square project.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I find it scary that I live in a country that is so misogynistic that the citizens would prefer to elect a goat for President rather than a woman. The fact that the population is 52 per cent women should clinch it but it doesn’t look that way. Which is another thing that scares me.
I admit that this election has me thinking with my heart as much as my head but, you know, it’s our turn, damn it. After centuries of men messing up, don’t you all think it’s time for a woman to try it?
Who Was Charlotte?
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of April, 1958:
Change Is Good
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I would like to give the readers the perspectives and feelings of my family and many of my friends who were born and raised here.
Preserve Our Town
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Spring Slips In
The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote about “spring coming slowly up this way,” and his words hold clear meaning on the Vineyard in early April. Raw winds cut across the faces of passengers disembarking from Steamship Authority ferries in Vineyard Haven; horses seek shelter in pastures in Chilmark and West Tisbury; Main street in Edgartown, splashed with late-afternoon sunshine, can be filled with eerie silence.