It will probably come as a greater satisfaction than ever when the voters of Martha’s Vineyard find themselves on the floor of town meeting this year.

There is a phrase Hart Crane, the difficult but magnificent American poet, uses to interpret the relationship between the ocean and the sky, in a most penetrating manner: “Infinite consanguinity.”

Picture two elementary schools with distinct philosophies and culture in a single district, each offering excellent education in a fiscally responsible way.

Cap’n Stuart Bangs exhibited a whale-iron or harpoon, this week.