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Steamer Nantucket on a cold Fall Day - 2005 Sam Low Photo
Harthaven - The Best Darn Place To Grow Up
Martha's Vineyard Magazine Rick Haslet builds a masterpiece May-June 2006
THE HEIST - "stealing the Benton murals"
Shipwreck! Discovering the Port Hunter 18 years old - the adventure of a lifetime in Vineyard waters A series of photographs of everyday life on the Vineyard with extended captions BENTON
Thomas Hart Benton's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard Magazine July 2004
The Battle of Beetlebung Corners Howard Coe - A Man's Gold Standard On Howard's 90th Birthday The Vineyard Gazette, September 24, 2004 Oak Bluffs' African-American Community The Vineyard Gazette September 3, 2004 An anthropological look at philanthropy The Vineyard Gazette August 6 2004 "Cultures of Community and Consumption" Engines of growth threaten the Vineyard The Vineyard Gazette July 27, 2004 "Oak Bluffs - a Pivot Point for Change?" A garage - and greed - in Oak Bluffs The Vineyard Gazette July 20, 2004 Ancestral spirits and a special harbor The Vineyard Gazette July 9, 2004 Why don't those new people wave? The Vineyard Gazette 2004 "A
Map of the Heart" - A Sense of Place on Martha's Vineyard
Ecological disaster awaits the unwary Vineyard Gazette - September 23, 2003 "A
Hurricane is Coming" The Vineyard
Gazette - September 16, 2003 Bubba gets his comeuppance The Vineyard Gazette "Three
Decades of 'Looking at the Vineyard'". The Vineyard
Gazette - Friday, August 29, 2003
"Low Tide" - painting of Menemsha in 1937 by Sanford Ballard Dole Low
Featured Opinion Article Vineyard Gazette
words and graphic by Sam Low Learjets on final approach ride wakes of noise, the whoosh of traffic throbs off the seawall and the wail of the lumpen mob soars over Circuit Avenue. It’s summer. It’s time for the earnest toilers of commerce to harvest the golden hordes. In fact, it’s July 21st and the Monster Shark Tournament is in Oak Bluffs and with it the yahoos in their plastic boats, rafted up three, four to a mooring - hundreds of them bobbing in the crowded harbor. The howling, caterwauling mob amuses themselves by, among other things, throwing beer bottles at Steve Maxner as he paddles by in his tiny kayak, a solo protestor in their midst, his sign telling them "Killing sharks for fun and prizes is a crime against nature. Shame on us." The sign is like a torch thrown in the slime of beer and gasoline that rimes the harbor’s still waters and it ignites the hivemind to a frenzy. “Who is this bozo?” “Some limp-wristed environmentalist!” “Get the water-bombs” What they don’t know is that Steve is a Viet Nam War veteran, who has seen what they never will, or want to, of war and of defending his country - no, their country - so they can play their pampered games cradled by the thump of boom boxes and stirred by the blood lust of running down leviathans of the sea in their palatial sport yachts. At night the howling mob takes to the bars, then the streets. A brawl breaks out near the Madison Inn on Kennebec avenue and there are fisticuffs in front of the taxi stand on the corner of Lake and Circuit Avenues, the Dive Bar and Seasons Pub. Police chase a man trying to escape by scaling fences, running over roofs and through the Campgrounds. A young visitor from Worcester tries to steal a moped and is apprehended on Central Avenue. A woman, armed with a knife, chases a man through the streets. Twenty-one arrests are made, four people are taken into protective custody and there are one hundred and forty calls for assistance to police. Our local force is overwhelmed so Tisbury Police lend a hand. The Monster Shark Tournament - it’s like a Rorschach test and there are many conclusions to be drawn. From the perspective of our police force it looks like more men will be needed next year. From the perspective of the everyday taxpayer, it looks like our taxes will go up. From the Perspective of the Great Shark Tournament, it’s good for business. Two million dollars worth of business claims Steven James, organizer of the event. Good for business? Really? Is that all we ever think about in Oak Bluffs?
Oral Presentation
to the Martha's Vineyard Commission The Vineyard
Gazette, Winter, 2003 The Vineyard
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A Man like John Wesley Mayhew Whiting The Vineyard
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Gazette - May 21, 2004 The Vineyard Gazette - July 3, 2001
"Early Morning - Off Season" painting of Seaview Avenue - Oak Bluffs - by Sanford Ballard Dole Low The Harthaven Herald - WAIT AFTER CLICKING FOR DOWNLOAD a neighborhood newspaper |
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