Health Care Agenda for All

The national debate over health care reform is intensifying as President Obama presses ahead with an ambitious agenda for overhauling a system that has grown so enormous and so complicated that it is impossible to understand all the working parts.

The dance of the sprinklers is just that — a dance. From the front porch, to across the street, to the growing fields of Morning Glory Farm, I watch the sprinklers as they dance across the horizon, in the light, in the wind, in the setting sun, and back and forth as they intertwine their arms of spray, as they sashay in and out of each other, doing the rumba or the mambo or even a little rock and roll. Their rhythm is perfection as they water the crops that all of us will eat and enjoy. Talk about buying local; this is as local as local gets.

Forks in a Rural Road

There are deepening divisions on Chappaquiddick over whether a bike path should be built on the tiny rural island that lies off the extreme eastern end of Edgartown. Indeed, the debate over the Chappy bike path has continued for more than thirty years, but the discussion has taken on more urgency in recent months and weeks and landed in front of the Edgartown selectmen again.

Blueberry Obsession

Notebook on an Auction

It was a splendid night, this first Monday in August, and a splendid new venue for the annual Possible Dreams auction: an elegant tent in Ocean Park with the moon rising over the sea beyond. A few years ago, when the event was postponed due to rain, organizers learned the hard way that some big spenders could stretch their weekends to Monday night but not another night, so they addressed that. The auction is now weatherproof, yet still picture-perfect Martha’s Vineyard.

Continuing the Conversation on Race