Not to be missed, but we do
The habit of centuries and of generations has us venerating the noble town meeting as the pure, raw essence of democratic self-government.
Pay to flay – It’s time to make a fresh start
Did you know that some newspapers charge the bereaved to have obituaries of the dearly departed published.
BTW, English, the gnarliest language of all, is a survivor
Lots of times, the kids' text messages contain letter combinations that mean nothing to me.
Twelve years in the same place, some lessons learned
I began writing At Large in November 1998, nearly 600 weeks ago.
Survivor of two shipwrecks, Essex skipper now in history’s grip
If ever someone qualified for consideration as a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder, it was certainly Capt.
Just trying to get it right
Apart from one or two regulars — Tom Hodgson comes to mind — no one winces more disconsolately than we do at the flaws in the weekly, and more and more often, daily, dose of prose The Times publishes.
Here’s debate with no winners
Every news report about the arrest of drug distributors who cultivate, manufacture, or import their products for sale on Martha's Vineyard leads to a debate among many readers.
And now, the moment you’ve waited for – the envelope please
I'm a big fan of "The King's Speech" for the Oscar.
An Oh My God moment for newspaper types
When newspaper people gather, as they will in a couple of weeks for the New England Newspaper and Press Association's convention next month in Boston, many of the conversations, the workshops, and the seminars will have a kind of Oh My God energy.
The Land Bank – good work, well done, a model
Budgeting conservatively, the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank expected revenue of a bit more than $5.
About the news business – a pre-modern view
Dan Reimold, a journalism professor at the University of Tampa, wrote the other day to ask for the answers to some questions, as a contribution to a journalism textbook he is preparing.
For the Comment people, who need it
'Twas the night before, and the Comment people were still at it.
No time to be complacent
The most recent 2009 State of the First Amendment report of the First Amendment Center in Washington is, as most of its predecessors have been, disappointing.
It’s not the pond it might be, but it’s a pond
Speaking of ponds, as folks in West Tisbury are these days, while they consider what to do, if anything at all, with the Mill Pond, I have in mind a farm pond elsewhere in town.
Change roars, and we retreat from the noise
In the characteristically Vineyard argument over dirt bikers and the noise they make roaring around the track they use at Nip and Tuck Farm, some of the debaters argue that the dirt bikers indulge that particular activity because there's so little for young Islanders to do.