Commentary
If it weren’t for the war.
Fifty years ago this winter, in February, 1958, I began my journalistic career as editor of a fledgling monthly...
EXCELLENT SUMMARY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The story about the Edgartown Great Pond Estuaries Study was an excellent summary of a problem that...
50 Years Ago:
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November, 1957:
A Linotype Man to the End
Jonathan Sawyer, whose unexpected death Nov. 21 was reported in last Friday’s Gazette, was for twenty years a mainstay...
Even before the 30th annual Island Cup game began on Saturday, things didn't look good for the visiting Whalers from Nantucket.
When the players...
Thanksgiving 2007
FOR NANCY WHITING
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Nancy Whiting, former librarian of the West Tisbury...
I’m trying to be thankful, and that should be easy at this time of year. Here I am in Chilmark where I enjoy the legacy left by my parents, Henry...
A Real Thanksgiving
Written by Henry Beetle Hough. From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Nov. 19, 1971:
Thanksgiving editorials and proclamations...
Unless you are the world’s biggest fan of déjà vu, you probably do not enjoy the nonstop reruns of late-night talk shows, and it will only get...
It was as cold as charity at 8:30 a.m. on the West Tisbury School soccer fields last Saturday. The wind cut right through you, and it was...
This is our second stint as editors for Sophomores Speak Out. This week we have a different set of opinions on everything from Halloween to school...