Gazette Chronicle
The rural free delivery of mail throughout the United States is far too old an institution to arouse any particular comment.
The old gilded weather vane that formerly crowned the steeple of the Federated Church in Edgartown hasn’t had an easy time of it.
Memorial Day slips in with a sweetness of the new season and a return of memories.
What of the Vineyard as it lived and breathed had its being on the Gazette’s natal day, one hundred years ago, May 14?
From the May 7, 1965 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Constance Greenough Fuller:
The boathouse at Gay Head, built years ago by the Massachusetts Humane Society to house a lifeboat, has been purchased by Mrs. A. N. Piper of New...
Anciently, the hand liners salted menhaden, cutting the fillets from the bone, washing and salting them as carefully as if they were going to eat ‘em...
The sun came out and the weather warmed up enough so that Corporal McIntire’s assistant was asked to slip down to Main street and get ice cream cones...
A large number of the voters of Edgartown assembled in the Town Hall, to transact the business necessary for a proper maintenance of law and good...
A single male heath hen, almost certainly the sole survivor of its species in the whole world, showed itself this week.
The sale of Prospect Hill is one of perhaps no more than three, or maybe four, transfers on the highest eminence on the Vineyard in this century.
At 6:10 a.m. yesterday the sun crossed the equator. Day and night were of equal length everywhere on earth.
