From the May 4 1951 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The Gay Head Light, oldest beacon on the Vineyard, has burned on for 152 years.
Opinion
The Mill Pond and its upstream cousins: Mill, Priester, Crocker, Fisher (also known as Woods), plus two or more smaller ponds, each with dams, are...
Three years ago in my sophomore history class, a young woman sat in the corner, deliberately placing herself outside the circle of activity in the...
From the October 21, 1994 Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton: At least a dozen times since Labor Day I’ve been asked, “Did you have a fun summer...
No one ever walked away from a conversation with Tom Hale and said: “I wonder what he wanted to tell me”? Tom embraced life in all its complexity,...
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Sept. 7, 1945: The sale of the S.M. Mayhew Company general store in West Tisbury was completed last week....
Martha’s Vineyard is a perfect place to start a life. Especially in the fall. A time for renewal. A time to re-tool. The next best thing to moving...
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So the ferry rates are being raised. That is an accepted fact of life on the Vineyard and one of the increased expenses we pay for the lifeline to...
Last week, I started reading the recently published book, This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein. What an informative, disturbing eye-opener it is!
I appreciate Timothy Johnson’s photos of the Island. Although we reside in Windsor Heights, Iowa, I am no stranger to Martha’s Vineyard as my wife,...