Opinion
Editor’s Note: What follows is an essay titled At the Turn of the Tide, taken from Salt Marsh Diary, a book by Mark Seth Lender, a writer and producer for the National Public Radio program Living on Earth. Mr. Lender will speak tonight upstairs at the Bunch of Grapes in Vineyard Haven at 7:30 p.m. At the Turn of the Tide is copyrighted by the author and appears here with permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC. In an e-mail to the Gazette this week, the author explained the Vineyard story behind Turn of the Tide:
Why would an Islander choose to ride our VTA bus system to circumnavigate the whole Island? Well, why did David Niven take a hot air balloon as part of his Around the World in 80 Days tour? Because there would have been no story if he hadn’t.
But there’s more to it than that, as far as riding the bus around the Island is concerned.
NO TICKET, STILL TOUR
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From a summer, 1962 Gazette:
History has much to say about Indian wampum, or “shell-money,” as it is sometimes called. Apparently all Indians east of the Mississippi used wampum for money or other purposes, and even some of those who lived far from the coastal areas but who prized this product of the fishing Indians’ ingenuity.
Memo to Oak Bluffs: Action Plan Needed
Effective governing, like almost everything else in life, begins with good intentions. But success ultimately rests on good actions.