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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Letter from the Publisher One should not take the helm of a 165-year-old institution without a sense of history and humility, and so I arrived...
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Dear Ana,
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Letters to the Editor
Thanks for all the kind words in person and comments on the internet from friends and acquaintances new and old, congratulating me for bringing...
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