Opinion
I recently read letters to the editor by a Peter Robb and Michael Fontes, both which complained about President Obama’s supposed poor leadership, incompetence and failures during the first six years of his presidency.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 27, 1926: Ten liquor raids, made almost simultaneously by the combined police forces of the three down-Island towns, created much excitement in Oak Bluffs on Saturday night.
I only know our routines. I presume most families on the Vineyard have their own. When guests or friends come to our house, our routines have a way of taking them by surprise.
Even though there is a substantial number of Chappaquiddick landowners paying taxes, the seasonal residents have had no voice in matters affecting them. The town treats Chappy as a colony of Edgartown.
I ran the Chilmark Road Race again this year, and like every year, I made the same joke at the start: “I don’t care how I do, as long as I’m not carried from the finish line to the first aid tent.
I stand as the black water
Of each wave’s backwash
Hugs my hip boots
Making little stars of light
The fish-filled night.
Early on I was hoping for a strike
Of some huge striped bass to fight,
But now, to hell with fishing,
I would rather stand here casting.