From the June 8, 1928 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Forty years ago and more there was a hotel of considerable size and many cottages in the section of Lagoon Heights, Oak Bluffs, where now there are but few houses and many scrub pine trees.

From the May 5, 1972 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Doris Vincent Norton: In all New England towns the annual town meeting is a very democratic and individual institution.

From the May 4, 1951 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: “I wish you could have talked with my mother,” Miss Eva Ryan told an interviewer recently, “I have no gift of the gab at all.”

From the April 26, 1940 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: For the first time in years, the codfish school has struck on the so called inshore ledges off Gay Head and Noman’s Land coincident with the arrival of the pinkletinks, an occurrence which is entirely in accord with ancient Vineyard tradition Ground-trawls and handlines, employed by the small-boat fishermen of Menemsha, have been landing heavy fares of the finest cod for days.

From the April 17, 1987 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: A monster lobster was landed this week by the 75-foot fishing boat Unicorn out of Menemsha.

From the April 10, 1924 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Very few men live to realize their highest ambition. Yet this has actually happened in the case of William V. Ripley, well-known victualer of Oak Bluffs.

From the April 5, 1935 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Everything is all right now. The robins have taken charge of the lawns.

From the March 27, 1959 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: For the second time since 1871, there is no Martha’s Vineyard in the fleet of the Island boat line.

From the March 22, 1963 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Yesterday was the first day of spring according to the calendar and astronomical calculations.

From March 15, 1957 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: We might as well face it, the Vineyard is not in its most pleasing aspect at the moment, and indeed looks more than a little frowsy as it faces up to spring.