Martha's Vineyard Tom Bennett

Reflecting on the Life of Shirley Robinson

Tom Bennett | Thursday, January 2 2020 - 2:16pm

Shirley Tankard Robinson and I worked together running the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Youth Center for almost a decade. During that time she showed me by example how to transcend those things in life that tend to sour us. She exuded love and kindness. She was fair minded and always willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt. Mostly she had a gift for bringing out the best in people.

Reflecting on the Life of Shirley Robinson

Tom Bennett

Shirley Tankard Robinson and I worked together running the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Youth Center for almost a decade.

Seasonal Househoppers Face Harsh Reality

Tom Bennett

Here we go again, another summer and another move. Anxiety rising. Having bad dreams. Sleep interrupted. Soon I must find a place to live. Must make enough income to get through next winter . . . can I do this all over again?

Edgartown’s Huck Finn

Tom Bennett

Today I heard that Samuel Jackson died. I immediately thought to myself, oh, what a loss to his family and the town. I remember Sammy as a main character in my life growing up in Edgartown. He was Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer rolled into one.