It's hard to imagine a less inspiring genesis.
He arrived when the Martha's Vineyard Commission was still in its early years - not yet a decade old, not yet accepted as a full member in the peculiar society known as Vineyard government. In fact, when Charles W. Clifford took over as executive director of the commission in 1982, if the commission was anything at all in the Island community, it was a point of controversy.
Something happened to Carly Simon the moment she stepped onstage at the Chilmark concert.
Peter Benchley, Author of Jaws, was in town this week. He came not to oversee the movie production of his book but to play a minor role in it.
Just a few issues back, this column carried the biographical sketch of Joseph West of Chilmark, who is a deaf mute.