Gazette Chronicle
Birds of a Feather
From Gazette editions of July, 1936:
We went to the Farmers’ Cooperative Market last Friday. It’s held in the Agricultural...
From a 1952 Gazette edition:
Since Thursday, when the Coast Guard building, three stories high, came towing into Menemsha Creek on a scow after...
Pieces of the Pie
From Gazette editions of July, 1886:
Almost the last act of the state senate was to advance its pay from $650 to $750, by a...
From Gazette editions of 1962:
Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven is the finest example of cooperative effort on the part of residents of...
Soft Sell
From Gazette editions of July, 1986:
This week for the second time in less than a decade, Alley’s Store, a veteran West Tisbury...
From a 1952 Gazette edition:
Since Thursday, when the Coast Guard building, three stories high, came towing into Menemsha Creek on a scow after...
Hot Air
From Gazette editions of July, 1936:
The giant dirigible Hindenburg soared over the Vineyard in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It...
From a June, 1948 Gazette:
Ode to Quansoo
From Joseph Chase Allen:
Smoother than prairie land, wearing a summer coloring of greens and browns, Quenames, named originally...
From Gazette post office files:
What splashes of color RFD mailboxes add to the landscape today. There are red mailboxes, blue, lion-yellow....
Full Steam
From Gazette editions of June, 1936:
From a summer, 1962 Gazette:
History has much to say about Indian wampum, or “shell-money,” as it is sometimes called. Apparently all Indians east...