Opinion
We all have a pond we favor on Martha’s Vineyard — so many ponds, separated or not from the salty sea water that surrounds this place, seven miles out from the mainland. The map of the Island, displayed on a board outside the Vineyard Haven Steamship Authority building, looks like a moth-eaten triangle whose lacy holes tell the story of many ponds, large and small.
The pagoda is living history, a centenarian, it’s an antique, and in the plant world, it is art! Please be a conservationist in the true sense by sharing the pagoda with Edgartown and all tree huggers of the world.
The approach of winter with its gray and stormy days that are inevitable, stirs an instinct among Vineyard people to turn their hands to home employments: the making of rugs, knitting and similar things; the various forms of handicraft that have survived from the colonial days in spite of machinery and machine made goods.
The gleaners have been out in force in recent weeks, scouring the abundant farm fields up-Island and down for sweet potatoes, kale, onions, winter squash and more.
The Executive Office for Administration and Finance eliminated funding in FY 2015 legislative appropriation, including funding for shellfish propagation in Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties.
I really think that fall’s colors were more brilliant this year, the reds and yellows much happier against the deep blue skies. Maybe they seemed that way to me.