I ask, when has any Reality Show ever been about reality? They are nothing more than exploitation, degradation of the human condition, false acting, and most of all, money!

Regarding “Always at the Helm, Joe Cressy’s Legacy Unites May 27, 2011.”

I could never take Joe Cressy’s place, but

I can offer what I am. Not the hail fellow

well met Joe sounded from his memorial

article but an honest environmentalist and

dreamer who believes in what

is right and will love Chappaquidick

like I love America.

I’d like to send this and

move there, but I never will.

I visited several times in the

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of February, 1968: The prospect of a 40 per cent reduction in weekend seats and of a 20 per cent reduction in daily seats on Northeast Airlines flights between the Vineyard and New York next summer has been the cause of concern to the Island officials in recent weeks. The reduction is expected to come about because the runways at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport are not long enough for jet planes, and the smaller turbo-jet planes are not attractive to Northeast — or to other airlines — as investments.

Dear John:

The romance is over. It’s been a wonderful ride, snowy days spent sledding gentle Island hills, traversing farm fields on cross-country skis and snowshoes, blizzardy nights by the fire, hands wrapped around steaming mugs of tea while the wind howled around the chimney.