Opinion
The current televised debates have given anyone concerned much to consider. In the debate between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, this was certainly true, as it was in the debate between Paul Ryan and vice president Joe Biden and those between Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney.
A slight correction to your article on the history of the West Tisbury Library. When Professor Shaler proposed the idea of a public library in the fall of 1890, the Rev. Caleb Rotch canvassed the area residents for financial support. By December the Dukes County Library Association formed, Caleb Rotch as president, and until July 1892 the library was in the Dukes County Academy.
The real controversy regarding 9/11 is not who did it and why but how the 9/11 Commission reached its conclusions, having admitted to coerced confessions and not looking at all the scientific and forensic evidence made available to it. To this day the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been unwilling to make public for peer review its computer model and calculations of just how the World Trade Center collapsed.
Every once in a while, a trap door opens and another world of knowledge and experience disappears forever. Or almost. We’ve all seen it happen with the passing of a friend — particularly those friends who have been so curious about their surroundings that they unearthed wonders and made their patch of ground seem as exotic as any place on earth. The Vineyard just lost such a man, Preston Gray Harris, who many of us knew as P.G.
As I write this from afar, I can picture the long tables in the Chilmark Community Center, the town clerk’s volunteers overseeing voter check-in and the old oak box where voters deposit their ballots. It’s a long way from where I sit now, in a bustling, fluorescent-lit campaign office in Seattle where we are working to defend the state’s marriage equality law on the Washington ballot this November.
My absentee ballot has already been stamped and mailed.
This past Saturday my wife Joyce and I flew to Ohio to spend a few days campaigning for President Obama. Our friends Tom and Lynn King had agreed to house, feed and provide us with a car. The campaign prepared an aggressive work schedule for us in the town of Bryan, Ohio, located in the northwest corner of the state.
Sunday morning we arrived at the local headquarters in Bryan. Our assignment: canvass as many as 70 houses along the tree-lined streets of the town, speaking only with Democrats or independents. The route was mapped out and well defined.