History
Memorial Day means wistful remembrance of the dead, flower sprinkled graves, cemetery pilgrimages, sermons and speeches.
In 1969, after an absence of some 30 years from the Vineyard, Dr. David Lowenthal (now 93 years old) revisited the Island.
It has always seemed to us that the harvest time is productive of the highest degree of satisfaction that mere man ever knows.
On May 14, 1846, Edgar Marchant introduced the Vineyard Gazette, the Island's first newspaper. It was the Golden Age of whaling.
We present to our readers this morning, the first number of “The Vineyard Gazette.”
The great age of scrapbooks, so far as the Vineyard is concerned, was back in the nineteenth century
Archaeologists surveying the future site of the Martha's Vineyard Museum in Vineyard Haven recently found traces of human use dating back thousands...
The world’s greatest steamship disaster — the sinking of the great White Star liner Titanic.
In December Tim Sauer, an Islander who likes to go out metal detecting, found a 1652 pine tree shilling, the oldest coin known to have been found on...
Eel Pond, anciently so named, is no longer a pond. From some points of view it has the character of an inland sea.
New exhibit at Martha’s Vineyard Museum explores the characters and figures from the heyday of Island whaling that often go unnoticed.
For many Islanders, the chairs and benches at the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle are synonymous with the place itself. Now the iconic 19th century seating...
