From the Sept. 18, 1925 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

You’re from Nevada, Idaho, New York city or Stockbridge — it doesn’t matter where — and you’ve never seen the Atlantic surf, let alone gone casting in it for bluefish and bass.

From the September 8, 1939 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

Oak Bluffs, from very early days, was a woodworking village.

Stories of pirates and their treasure are inevitably associated with the Vineyard.

If you believe in equal pay for equal work, you’re a feminist.

“Scaupaug” is what the Wampanoags called this fish in the long ago.

The moon was an apricot lantern and then a silver one.

The uniqueness of the letter, says the Tribune, puts it in a class of its own

Traveling down the spur lines of history can be pleasant and exciting for anybody with gumption.