Commentary
On cold, clear winter Vineyard days, I have trouble staying indoors. I am always tempted to set off for a walk in the woods or along a beach. The...
Cases in Point
The recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in an esoteric Norwell case — a case that relied heavily on an earlier...
Forty years ago my father, Island artist Stan Murphy, was commissioned to paint a portrait of our country’s first black cabinet member, Dr. Robert...
Shrinking Island Schools
Growing communities traditionally have meant growing schools, both for the number of students attending them and the...
Restoring Veterans Park
War Veterans Memorial Park was built more than half a century ago by hand by a small group of Vineyard Haven veterans who...
Subprime Lending in West Tisbury
Fallout from the many-headed monster otherwise known as the subprime mortgage crisis certainly seems to have no...
A Place for Planning
More than thirty five years ago, an engineering firm looked at the six towns on the Vineyard and envisioned a possible...
FORMULA FAIRNESS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The Tisbury lawsuit about the assessment formulas for the high school is just one more attempt to...
On Being Black
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of January, 1983:
One day, when I was bemoaning my quality problem of missing the Vineyard when I went home to Honolulu and missing Honolulu when I returned to my...
The old America I knew took a hike last week and a new America emerged before my unbelieving eyes at approximately 9:30 in the evening. That was...
He was a first generation Portuguese American who was a member of the Oak Bluffs fire department for more than forty years, a widely loved unsung...
