Editorials
There was a light dusting of snow Thursday, but it felt more like something to sprinkle on a six-year-old’s birthday cake.
With temperatures bouncing between single digits and the thirties and forties in recent weeks, ice has been the predominant theme of winter so far.
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Mozzarella — that was the headline for an article about Flatbread, written soon after the restaurant opened on July 3, 2010.
Eleven acres and a dream. That was how it all began in 1959 when Henry Beetle Hough and Elizabeth Bowie Hough bought the old ice house property in Edgartown and launched the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation.
While reading a series of Gazette editorials ruminating on the New Year over the years, the eye catches on one written in 1942 in the middle of World War II.
Nature seems to whisper during a snowstorm as a blanketing hush falls over the land, sky and sea. Even the foghorn sounds muffled.