From the Nov. 30, 1979 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The north end of Tisbury’s Main street will change dramatically this winter, ending the era of the town five-and-ten-cent store when fistfuls of candy were bought for a penny and household trinkets were bagged for two-bits.
Opinion
Twenty years ago I ran into my friend Amelia on the ferry.
From the July 6, 1984 edition of the Gazette:
When I first learned that the Supreme Court had struck down both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in their entirety I was in Washington,...
The day I was born, the attending doctor took one look at my feeble legs and told my parents, “You son will never be an athlete.”
A few weeks ago I attended the French Open in Paris.
In late May, as the grass on our tiny lawn grew unusually high, I asked my husband if he was participating in No Mow May.
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Like a lot of people on Martha's Vineyard, I heard the beginnings of the controversy about an artificial playing field at the high school several...
I am not familiar with another instance when so many people, determined to pursue a bad idea, have been given — and ignored — so many opportunities...
On Monday, May 9, my 97-year-old mother's house in Tisbury burned down. No one was hurt, thank God.