From the May 3, 1974 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Polly Woollcott Murphy:
“May Day!” the children said to each other with palpable excitement as they gathered in the West Tisbury schoolyard on Wednesday morning. “May Day!”
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I had just reached into the bedroom closet. Looking back at me from the shoulder of a shirt on a hanger inside the closet was a snake.
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I grew up in Toronto, Canada. One day the fire trucks came to my house. It was every little boy’s dream. Well almost.
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I’m sure I am not the first to consider it a stroke of great fortune to be treated at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
The new Lagoon Pond drawbridge not malfunctioning like the old but opening slower reminds me of a saying.
I want to thank everyone that helped the 39th Tivoli Day to be the most successful ever.