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.

It begins to appear as if Tashmoo water will be the ultimate means of making Martha’s Vineyard as well known as Saratoga Springs.