Summer, I’m sorry I doubted you.  I knew that you would come eventually.  And with this lovely weather I hear that you are bringing a quite special political family with you.  The island is such a buzz, even the shops are preparing early for an Obama-rama.

There’s hardly a day that goes by where I don’t here some new tidbit about the first family’s vacation at the end of August.  First they were going to rent a house in Oak Bluffs near the police barracks (smart idea!), and now they are renting out a farm in Chilmark for a mere $32,000/week.  That sounds like tax dollars well-spent!

When the Clintons came to Martha’s Vineyard, they always stayed at a friend’s house, more often than not that of Robert McNamara, who recently passed (and was almost pushed off a ferry by a man angry about Vietnam).  Cost:  free!