On Saturday all over the world, people will be celebrating the benefits of locally grown, unprocessed food as part of Food Revolution Day, an educational outreach championed by British chef and food activist Jamie Oliver. Here on the Vineyard, Island Grown Schools, led by coordinator Noli Taylor, is a shining example of how a community can promote healthy eating and support local agriculture, too.

From the edition of May 22, 1987:

There’s a new and seasonal sort of traffic on the Beach Road in Vineyard Haven these days, as the sailboats of summer make their way down to the water for another season. Large sailboats emerge slowly from the lagoonside sheds of the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, to the boat lift and into warming harbor waters.

From Gazette editions of May 1987:

On Sunday, when the sun came out, I took to the West Tisbury woods to see what, during last week’s dank, dark days when I stayed indoors might have arrived unheralded. In a moment in the spring so much peeks forth from under the brown leaves of winter, and it is a pity to miss any of it.

Editor’s Note: The following went out to Whippoorwill Farm members in a newsletter this week.

By ANDREW WOODRUFF

Several weeks ago, I began to plow the fields at Thimble Farm for what most likely will be the last time. As the dust rose up from the turning of the soil, I began to wonder just what this land could mean to our community — not only now, but 30 years from now. Until recently, there had been little rain in months and it has been one of the driest starts to a growing season that I have ever experienced.

NO SOLUTION

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

We the families of Winthrop avenue demand the removal of the one-way section of Dukes County avenue. This incomplete resolution, to a problem originating from a failure of the town to enforce zoning and parking regulations, has created an unacceptable and unsafe situation for us.

“M is for the million things she gave me . . . ”