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.
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Last February, Menemsha lost one of its memorable characters, a genuinely nice guy and a good friend, when Carl Whitman passed. He died the way he...
Spring Slips In The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote about “spring coming slowly up this way,” and his words hold clear meaning on the...
Decision Time in Tisbury
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I find it scary that I live in a country that is so misogynistic that the citizens would prefer to elect a...
Who Was Charlotte? From the Vineyard Gazette editions of April, 1958:
Change Is Good Editors, Vineyard Gazette: I would like to give the readers the perspectives and feelings of my family and many of my friends who...
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SCIENCE HIGH HONORS Editors, Vineyard Gazette: Congratulations to the entire eighth grade and Karl Nelson, their eighth grade science teacher, on...
CAPABLE MR. BABSON Editors, Vineyard Gazette: I am writing about the resignation of David Babson, former manager of the Trustees of Reservations...
TOO MUCH PROTECTION Editors, Vineyard Gazette: There comes a time where being overprotective is counterproductive. As a pilot, I have aviation...