Opinion
No Seat at the Table
Skunks are Serious
From Gazette Editions of October, 1984:
Gone Scalloping
Not a Drop to Drink
It took four words to remind Islanders this week how fragile our ecosystem is: Don’t drink the water.
Residents of Oak Bluffs last weekend were advised — not promptly enough for many, adding “devise foolproof disaster communications plan” to the to-do list for all town officials — that they should boil any water they might drink, use to wash their hands or teeth, or even their dishes.
A RECENT EXPERIENCE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I hate bigots, bullies and abusive authority. I admire and respect professional emergency medical technicians, firemen, hospital personnel and police officers! The Vineyard is blessed with a preponderance of the latter four.
Gus Ben David 2nd
Edgartown
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CAPE WIND FACTS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
When my wife and I opened the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Martha’s Vineyard, Thornton Wilder was one of our first customers. He came early in the season, in a rumpled suit with a raincoat over one arm and a crush hat on his head. I knew that he stayed with his sister in Edgartown. When I remarked on his early arrival he said, “I come with the bluefish and I leave with the bluefish.”