From the Feb. 25, 1972 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: A northeast storm of unusual viciousness struck the Island on Saturday during the early hours.
Life first brought me to this place as a boy.
From the March 5, 1971 edition of the Gazette: Smith, Bodfish, Swift Co., in Vineyard Haven, one of the Island’s oldest concerns, has been purchased...
On a Sunday two weeks ago, hundreds of hearts in pieces gathered to say a reluctant farewell to Christopher Svend Laursen.
One does not have to drive to Aquinnah before dawn to prove how quiet the Island is in late February. But it does make for a good excuse.
Many contributors to black history weren’t black. Take the abolitionists, for example.
From the February 23, 1962 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Joseph Chase Allen:
I learned a great deal being away at college, one of which is my appreciation for the respect our community has for our Island’s ecosystem.
Thank you for Steve Myrick’s article on the shotgun season for deer.
I was pleased to hear that the Field Fund agrees that the existing high school fields are in deplorable condition.