Gazette Chronicle
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...
On the Boards
From Gazette editions of June, 1986:
From a Summer, 1992 Gazette:
“Edgartown, sometimes called Old Town, August 7, 1849. Half past five in the morning, and not another soul up in the...
Going Places
From Gazette editions of June, 1936:
The season of 1936 has been coming in on a bicycle, and many observers have looked up,...
Bar None
From a 1932 Gazette:
To those who would look intelligently upon the distant past of Martha’s Vineyard, an authority to be commended is...
Anchors Aw eigh
From Art Railton’s Just a Thought, May 20, 1994:
Coming Back
From Gazette editions of May, 1986:
Island Stew
From Gazette editions of May, 1936:
If Martha’s Vineyard people are desirous of adding to the number of deer now on the Island, the...
Elevated Views
From Earlier Gazette Editions:
Martha’s Vineyard has two sorts of hills, those that are real hills with impressive height, and...
