Thanksgiving 2008

Educating Children Early

Investing in early childhood care and education is not about ideology. It’s simply a smart investment, a thing otherwise elusive these days. Investing in young children pays big dividends.

The Vineyard Affordable Child Care Project is a model program, run on a shoestring by two people who use local insight and a commitment to quality to maximize its impact. Yet this project is being crippled by sudden and short-sighted budget cutbacks.

Pond Stock Rising

The late Foster Silva, longtime superintendent for The Trustees of Reservations on Chappaquiddick who loved to tell perfect strangers that he had received his degree from Katama University, had an opinion on the subject of bay scallops. Cape Pogue scallops, he said, were the sweetest. No arguments.

Budgets for Learning

Bridges to Here and There

Like so many of its projects that the Island has seen over the years, the Massachusetts Highway Department’s plan to rebuild the two bridges that span Beach Road between Edgartown and Oak Bluffs is full of hope and promise — and also surprise.

Copper and Gold

The beech trees that heavily populate the North Shore of the Vineyard are showing spectacular foliage this year; their coppery gold canopies refract the late afternoon light which fades all too quickly during the shortened days of late autumn.