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
From the Feb. 19, 1960 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Excitement in the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington has been stirred by the finding at...
It is February and it would be nice if it were warmer.
Robert (Bob) Carter Hayden Jr. died Jan. 23. His serendipitously popular saying, “know your history” dovetails nicely with this Black History Month.
An elephant in the classroom / Unheard voices from slavery / So essential to understanding / How past is prelude / To inequities we now see.
There are times when forth-coming events cast their shadows before them, and one becomes acquainted with the motto of the Boy Scouts — “Be prepared...
The recent blizzard here on the Island took me back in time, to my life as a child growing up in Garrison, N.Y. before sailing brought me to the...
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Letters to the Editor
n 1975, my grandfather, Roger DeFeo, went to Martha’s Vineyard with his older brother Lawrence to find an ideal place to build family homes.
I am writing in support of Navigator Homes of Martha’s Vineyard as proposed on land in Edgartown.
I would like to give a shoutout to Edgartown’s highway superintendent, Allan Debettencourt, and his employees.