Opinion
I really had no idea what to expect as I approached the Chilmark Community Center a little after 7 p.m. on Saturday night, but I hoped it would be like days of old when — as teenagers — we would make the long trek from down-Island to square-dance or listen to folksingers like Jesse Benton or David Gude. I was not disappointed.
Each year 200,000 women and men are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States alone. Erin Kokoszka has felt this statistic personally. “My maternal grandmother and all of her sisters have been affected by breast cancer,” she said. “My grandmother is a survivor and her other living sister is a survivor, but she’s lost two sisters. My two great-aunts have both been killed by the disease.”
Letter from the Publisher
One should not take the helm of a 165-year-old institution without a sense of history and humility, and so I arrived this week to take up my new post as publisher of the Vineyard Gazette with a healthy dose of both.
Farm Talk
From a Spring, 1948 Gazette:
Unlike a lot of seals, who have managed to gain steady employment in circuses and aquariums, I have never tried to balance a beach ball on my nose. Considering the prominence of my proboscis, nobody could tell the difference.
But I once was a seal trainer for a day at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead, N.Y. I even have a framed certificate and a photo of me being kissed by a 465-pound sea lion named Herbie.
Dear Ana,