Category Archives: Martha’s Vineyard

Belated 10th Anniversary

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

So I’m three days late blogging the tenth anniversary of 9/11. So what. 9/11 is going to be around for a while, despite the best attempts of the news media to blather it to death. If the rest of us … Continue reading →

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How the Story Ended . . .

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Earlier this summer I copyedited a book about the Sacco-Vanzetti case. I’d known the basics for many years. In 1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of killing two men during a 1920 payroll robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. … Continue reading →

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Turning Point

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

This morning, Nisa Counter and Ben Ramsey released this letter to their friends and supporters. That includes the many people who’ve been following their story on this blog. You know I’ve got a few things to say about it all, … Continue reading →

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September

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

September looms large in the year-round Vineyarder’s calendar. A popular 1990s bumper sticker read PRAY FOR SEPT.! and in small print underneath: M.V. Year-Rounders Trying to Deal with Summer. September, we like to say, is when we get our island … Continue reading →

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Defense Fund Established for Ben & Nisa

Posted on September 4, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

From the Seasonally Occupied Territories has been covering Ben Ramsey and Nisa Counter’s fight to defend their land against the claim of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation (SMF), a local conservation group. Apart from Facebook, it’s the only public source of … Continue reading →

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Public Hearing

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Early in August the Martha’s Vineyard Commission (MVC) did the right thing, albeit much belatedly, and voted to accept the roundabout project as a development of regional impact (DRI). I discussed the issue and reported my impressions of the August … Continue reading →

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Has SMF Lost the Plot?

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Tom Counter submitted the following letter to both island newspapers. The Martha’s Vineyard Times declined to print it. The Vineyard Gazette has said it was going to print it, but as of last Friday’s paper, it hadn’t appeared. I’m honored … Continue reading →

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Weather

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis

If you’ve lived in a place for a while, you have a pretty good idea what its weather looks like. On Martha’s Vineyard you can count on summers being very warm and often humid, with some crystal-clear sunny days and … Continue reading →

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I got home from dinner last night to learn that not only could I not post to the Martha’s Vineyard Times website, all my earlier comments had been removed from the Sheriff’s Meadow story. This is flattering, sure — it’s … Continue reading →

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis | 3 Comments

I’ve been blocked from posting new comments to the M. V. Times website. Last straw seems to have been my posting a link to “So Long, Tent,” which demonstrated in words and photos that the structure Ben Ramsey built really … Continue reading →

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Susanna J. Sturgis | 3 Comments