Opinion
The Lagoon Pond is the second largest estuary on Martha’s Vineyard and the most impaired of all the Island’s ponds.
Even though summer is officially over my mind keeps taking me back to a summer like I’ve never seen on the Vineyard in all the years I’ve visited as a guest and as a seasonal resident.
Did you have any heroes when you were nine years old? I did and his name was Robin Jackson.
On an Island, and specifically in a town steeped in a rich history of Native/Indigenous and African American history, it is disappointing that Oak Bluffs is experiencing white supremacy and racism.
From the Sept. 12, 1958 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: And when some youthful hearer asked what the Eel-pot may have been those same elders “closed their hatches” with abruptness and said no more.
As we move from summer to fall I’m reminded of how in the early spring I was contemplating transitions and change.