From the Dec. 23, 1949 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Santa Claus arrived on the Vineyard on Tuesday afternoon by airplane.
We the People On the eve of Independence Day, with parades, picnics and baseball games on deck and flags flying from every corner, it is also a...
As we approach eight years of war, too many military families are quietly coming apart at the seams. The public hears the most dramatic stories and...
No Chicken, This Dog From a Gazette edition of July, 1956: About twenty-two miles south-southwest of Noman’s Land in the heaving swells of the...
I went fishing the other day at the jetty by the Vineyard Haven drawbridge. It was early evening, the sun beginning to set, and I was alone on the...
Field of David’s Dreams
From Abroad and Without Work
This letter goes out to the wonderful people who were on the Great Rock Bight beach on August 13. My husband and I are extremely lucky to have had...
I am a seasonal resident of West Chop and a rest-of-the-year resident of Manhattan. Each day on Martha’s Vineyard I bike the 20-mile loop from West...
Given the controversy over the Zoia property on Quitsa Pond, it was to be expected that Ken Iscol and others would write letters taking strong...