Opinion
The Black Lives Matter organization of Martha’s Vineyard offers the following comments on the plan issued by the Chilmark town affairs council.
I live in a residential neighborhood on the south side of Oak Bluffs.
In a long row of pots along the side of the station / Blooms the garden of the garage’s mechanic.
Remember the spring of 2020‚ 18 months ago, when the word Covid had just entered our vocabulary.
Fred Vincent, sexton of the church / for thirty years / Walked past our house each Sunday / In the winter / To go and ring the bell.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s unanimous vote to approve the hulking Tisbury Marine Terminal redevelopment project suggests the unwelcome conclusion that economic expediency is probably part of the human condition.