An account of the first Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Fair, which at the time was called simply the fair and cattle show, from the Oct. 14, 1859 edition of the Vineyard Gazette recounts that the show was "well attended by people from all parts of the County."

First, start somewhere familiar. Chopping parsley in the kitchen. Listening to headphones on 44th street. Observing three-year-olds throw insults like Big Sewerface at a birthday party.

Then, follow a trail of crumbs into the woods. Better yet, find a rabbit hole and jump down it. Or pull the candle stick on the mantle in the haunted house and slip through the bookcase when it swivels around. Enter the less familiar, somewhat weird, darkly funny, sometimes frightening.

Former Ambassador Says Iraq Pullout Is Inevitable

By MIKE SECCOMBE

You don't fix a watch with a hammer. And the force of blunt instruments is seldom any more effective in international relations.

That was the essence of Ambassador Dennis Ross's address at the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute Wednesday night, as he drove home his message that America's diminished standing in the world would not be restored until it abandons its heavy-handed and faith-based approach to international problems and relearns the subtle art of statecraft.

As a widening home mortgage crisis ripples through national financial markets, positive trends in the second quarter indicate that the Vineyard rea

Addressing his Third Army troops before the Battle of France in World War II, General George S. Patton spoke these now-famous blunt words: "Boys, we all want to go home. We want to get this over with. But the quickest way to get it over with is to go get those bastards. The quicker they're whipped, the quicker we go home."

Lighted old-fashioned oriental lanterns strung high in gingerbread house porches weren't the only memorable part of Illumination Night on the Camp Ground on Wednesday night.