After the Feast

From the Nov. 24, 1950 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The very November dawn comes up like the red-ripe cranberry of the wild bog.

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Crashing About

From the Nov. 25, 1927 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Was it just the fog that caused two Menemsha fishermen to collide head-on on a dark night?

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Woodchips

From the Nov. 15, 1963 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: An Island couple creates a cottage industry in Vineyard Haven.

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Halloween Hooray

From the Nov. 7, 1958 edition of the Gazette: The Edgartown Police Benevolent Association gets a surprising RSVP to its annual Halloween party.

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Election Time

From the Nov. 1, 1974 edition of the Gazette by William A. Caldwell:
Every election is a suspense story. One expects oneself to hold one’s breath in a delicious agony of uncertainty. Once the votes are counted, it is obvious that the outcome was appropriate, indeed inevitable, indeed precisely as one had predicted all along.

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Chilmark Sword

From the Oct. 23, 1964 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
Chilmark Sword, the first vessel designed especially for long-lining swordfishing, arrived in her home port of Menemsha, fresh from her shakedown cruise.

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Annabelle Lee

From the Oct. 14, 1920 edition of the Gazette:
On a cloudless fall day, a company of moving picture actors came to the Island to film "Annabelle Lee."

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Gimcrack Days

From the Oct. 8, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
In the vernacular of the old Vineyard, the word gimcrack covered even more than a multitude of sins, and some of them were sins indeed though committed, no doubt, with the most lofty of intentions.

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Manners, Please

From the Oct. 4, 1940 edition of the Gazette.

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Food and Drink

From the September 25, 1973 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

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