Gazette Chronicle
New Year’s Greetings from the Past.
From the Gazette of Jan. 1, 1847:
“A Happy New Year.” These words fall like music upon the ear, and send a...
From Dorothy Cottle Poole’s Christmas at Sea:
In 1831, the Nile out of New Bedford, Capt. James Townsend, was in the South Atlantic off Patagonia....
From Gazette editions of December 1961:
Mrs. Mary Guerin, proprietor of the Mary Guerin Inn on the Beach Road at Eastville, has sold the inn...
From Gazette editions of December 1986:
The Vineyard may only wonder — perhaps despair is a better word — at the insanity of yet another collision...
From Gazette editions of December 1936:
Winter came to the Vineyard in earnest form early this week, and the youth of the Island enjoyed the earliest...
From November Gazette editions: On Thanksgiving Day the United States and her sons and daughters, if they are able, feast. In thousands and thousands...
From Gazette editions of November 1986:
The Seaview Hotel building was purchased Monday by Albert Siner Jr. of Warwick, R.I., for $1,050,000 from...
From Gazette editions of November, 1961:
The Foote Memorial Shelter of the Mass. MSPCA at Edgartown needed extra pages for its guest book over...
From Gazette editions of November 1936:
Island interest in the election this week centered about the contest for county representative. For the...
From an “Interesting Vineyarders” column:
Capt. Edward A. Perry of Oak Bluffs, a descendant of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, is one of the survivors...
Catch of the Day
From Gazette editions of October 1986:
The Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby will no longer be sponsored by the...
Leading Lights
From Gazette editions of October, 1961:
Ernest E. Duarte of Makonikey has taken the contract to repair the lighthouse tower at...
