Opinion
I read with interest the recent article on Harry Belafonte. Clearly, Mr. Belafonte contributed greatly to the Civil Rights movement in this country and should be praised for his accomplishments. I would like to raise a few points however.
Thank you to the Island newspapers as well as all the participating Island vendors for their support of The Farm Institute and Edible Vineyard’s latest book talk with author Michael Pollan. To clarify, this was a community event, not a fundraiser.
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1980: How it will work out is impossible for anyone to know. The Coastal Zone Management program has approved a $98,000 proposal to build a solar-powered shellfish hatchery — the first federally funded in the country — in Vineyard Haven. The plan, if it works, is expected to produce enough shellfish seed stock — an estimated two million a year — to meet the needs of five Island towns, Oak Bluffs, Gay Head, Chilmark, Tisbury and West Tisbury.
For years my daughter Jill lived a private, single, independent life in New Orleans, the city she fell in love with during her college years at Tulane.
In the fullness of time, coastal scientists say, Martha’s Vineyard will disappear back into the ocean and new islands will form on what is now Georges Bank. It is part of a grand cycle of sediment redistribution, where land is not lost, but simply transported from one spot to another.
Despite the president’s well-studied, highly polished and loudly proclaimed deep regard for the embattled middle class, perhaps those who might listen carefully may be able to overhear the Obamas and their friends and associates exchange among themselves the basest, most patronizing and contemptuous sounds of amused derision whenever the topic of the challenges of ordinary people is broached, with the clinking of champagne glasses providing accompaniment.