From the June 21, 1974 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: No matter what the calendar says about this, next week is the Fourth of July on the State Beach. All week, maybe even starting tomorrow if the weather is fine, Universal Studios will be filming the last sequences on land of Jaws — Monday the Fourth, Tuesday the Fourth, Wednesday.
Opinion
Christmas lights looked twice as pretty reflected in the snow. Houses looked twice as snug.
If adulthood begins at age eighteen, Vineyard Youth Tennis is already two years overdue to reach maturity.
The house fly in the window finally died Wednesday night.
I have been a mother for 68 years and a Nana for 30 years, but for one short period of my life I was a Nanny.
The white-footed mouse is a pure and innocent beast, Till an infectious deer tick nymph clamps its jaws on for a feast.
“Sixteen men on the dead man’s highboy; yo yo ho ho and a bottle of Tashmoo water!”
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On April 6, I came crashing to the floor in a point-perfect landing on my left hip.
Members of the Tisbury School building committee have been wont to characterize critics of their plan as “the opposition.”
Last year, we picked up several garbage bags full of Mylar balloons that had washed up on the beach at Quansoo.