Opinion
For your sleek schooners / the sweep of your sweet beach / the slant of your dock house / the gambrel of your restaurant / where all the mates / would come to gab / and mug up by that / big wide hearth.
If you had been sitting on the beach in Menemsha preparing to watch the sunset this past Saturday you witnessed a rare thing.
On Friday, Sept. 12, there was a free luncheon put on by Buster Giordano and his hard-working family at Giordano’s Restaurant for all Island military veterans and their spouses.
At 12:37 a.m. on Wednesday, April 23 of this year, Martha’s Vineyard lost an irreplaceable elder and we gather here today to grieve this loss together.
From the September 15, 1972 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Dorothy West: Mrs. Mildred Johnson Edwards and her teenage daughter, Melanie, live in a large, pleasant house on Tuckernuck avenue in Oak Bluffs, where the cottages share a fine stretch of park.