The recent purchase of a house at Seven Gates by former Secretary of State John F. Kerry prompted me to regret being retired from title examining.

I have seen many people, both residents and tourists, checking out the excavation at 37 Cooke Street.

Books where houses play a major role are often popular. Who can forget Manderly, Tara, The Professor’s House or Howard’s End.

On the last Sunday in May for the past 28 years, I have been listening to the reading in the Federated Church of the names of those Edgartown men who served in the Civil War.

There goes the neighborhood! I was pleasantly shocked the other day rounding the corner at Starbuck’s Neck and the Harbor View Hotel.

The new Edgartown Library is finished and the shelves have arrived. But what of the historic Carnegie building that will be left behind?