Commentary
Hedline
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1958:
Ever hear of the Demarcation Point?
The map will show it on the top side of Alaska,...
Time and Timing
July Days
The last of the summer hay has been cut and baled. Swallows swoop around the farm fields, feasting on crickets and insects in the grassy...
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1958:
Certainly worth a first page position is the fact that James Thurber, the American humorist,...
HEART RENDING
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Editor’s Note: What follows is the text of Martha’s Vineyard Museum executive director Keith Gorman’s letter to the members, published in the...
ROOTING FOR HILLARY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I’ve scoured my e-mail list and shamelessly scavenged from all of my friend’s e-mail recipient...
I Remember Jerry best at work
Two drawknives
A peavey
And an ax
A tractor trailer load
Of spiles
Oak trees
From up north
We’d bark
Me a...
Conservation Today
When groups such as the Vineyard Conservation Society came into existence in the mid-twentieth century, the Vineyard seemed a...
Counting Crows
Anyone who is out early in the morning these days will surely hear or see a crow, or a murder of crows, as groups of crows are...
It’s the Berries
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1933:
From the Ashes
They were ready. Austin Racine and Katrina Yekel, who had bought the Cafe Moxie restaurant on Main street in Vineyard Haven in May...
