Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anne W. Simon, a slim and well-tanned divorcee who cares passionately about her view over the wild grapevines on the shore of Martha's Vineyard, returned home one day to find that someone had dumped a truckload of cigarette butts all over her front lawn. The truck had then been driven back and forth across the lawn, gouging deep ruts and tearing down a row of small pine trees and bushes...
...Simon's new book is called No Island Is an Island (Doubleday; $8.95), and it argues vehemently that the convulsive growth of recent years "will homogenize" the Vineyard, "grind its character to mediocrity, and make the place indistinguishable from the brutally overdeveloped mainland coast." The book shows that when developers turned toward the island at the beginning of this decade, the Vineyard was completely unprepared to hold them back: zoning laws were inadequate, the Vineyard's economy had become dependent on tourism or summer residents, and local governments had not thought to plan ahead. Many year-round Vineyard...
...powerful figure who agrees with Mrs. Simon (he reviewed her book in the New York Times) is Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who has drafted a controversial bill that would turn the Vineyard, plus neighboring Nantucket and the outlying Elizabeth Islands, into the Nantucket Sound Islands Trust. Kennedy's bill would divide the islands into three kinds of development zones: virtually untouchable "forever wild" areas, "scenic preservation" lands where building would be strongly controlled, and less severely limited "town planned" regions. All would be administered by a trust under federal supervision...
...conserve fuel, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter has ordered state troopers to drive slower and go on fewer highway patrols. On the Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes, gas stations are allotting a maximum of ten to twelve gallons of gas to each customer. From Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where panicky residents begin queuing up at gas pumps at 6 a.m., to Los Angeles, where some stations are getting 51? a gallon, the long-feared gasoline shortage is finally making itself felt...
...scenes are straight out of the great grape strike of the late 1960s. In Southern California's Coachella Valley, Chicano laborers again cry "Viva la Huelga" (long live the strike) at flashy sedans roaring through vineyard gates, and priests who join them are arrested for illegal picketing. Cesar Chavez again summons his workers to talk up a grape boycott. But this time, his opposition is not confined to the growers whom he signed to contracts three years ago. Now Chavez's still tiny United Farm Workers Union (28,000 members at the end of 1972) is locked...