Time Machine Terms
December 23, 1966
They Have Seen Nearly a Century of Yuletides
Ninety-four Vineyard Christmas birthdays!
Although Mrs. Annie Vincent holds the Boston Post cane as senior resident of Edgartown (she turned 94 last May, if I am correct) she was not born on Christmas Day itself ninety-four years ago. This seasonable distinction belongs to Christine Pease, who will celebrate her 94th birthday and Christmas together a week from Sunday. What changes she must have seen in Edgartown’s Yuletide celebration!
December 23, 1966
Posed Pert and Pretty a Viking Does Some Primping
What with everyone and his cat about to celebrate the holidays and wanting to be home with their families, John B. Coutinho though this would be a good time to do a little sprucing up on his already pristine dragger. So little Viking was hauled.
Now that she’s out of the water, she looks like something that belongs on a mantelpiece instead of the high seas. An observer suspects that she’s a touch of the vain side, since she seems almost to be posing.
November 11, 1966
The Vineyard’s Senator: Edward W. Brooke, Oak Bluffs Summer Resident, Wins Saltonstall Seat
Edward W. Brooke of Newton and Oak Bluffs became the first African American ever elected to the United States Senate by a popular vote.
August 26, 1966
Miss Hinni Sells School Property
The land and buildings of the School of Creative Arts on the West Chop Road in Vineyard Haven have been sold by Miss Kathleen Hinni to Mrs. Hazel F. Schwarts, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Angell and Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Kennedy. All are owners of real estate either adjoining the school property or located nearby.
The sale was made by Cronig’s Real Estate. The property consists of seven acres of wooded land, with 600 feet of beach, which has been divided equally among the three purchases.
August 19, 1966
Touch of Youth is Seen at 105th Fair
The 105th annual fair and cattle show of Dukes County opened in West Tisbury yesterday morning, and the following impressions were gained at 10 o’clock in the forenoon:
August 9, 1966
Noman’s Land Again
The visit to Noman’s Land the other day by Bertrand Wood who lived on that seaward island long ago and took with him many of the nostalgic memories of youth, directs attention again to the runic rock of Noman’s. The rock was submerged by, the tide and Mr. Wood could not photograph it as he had hoped.
August 9, 1966
Kivie Kaplan Is Again on Project in the South
Kivie Kaplan, national president of the N.A.A.C.P., who was recently vacationing in Vineyard Haven, took off on July 29 for a five day trip to New Orleans for the association’s Louisiana summer project in which more than a hundred volunteers from all over the country, boys and girls, Negro and white, will work from one to five weeks, paying their own expenses. A few will come from other countries.
August 2, 1966
Island Is Special, Secretary Udall Says at Gay Head
In a friendly but eloquent mixture of encouragement, advice and warning to the whole Island, Secretary of the Interior Steward L. Udall formally dedicated the colorful clay cliffs of Gay Head as a National Landmark on Saturday afternoon.
July 5, 1966
Dr. Fisher House Bought By Strocks
The Dr. Daniel Fisher house next to the Methodist Church in Edgartown, a noble Greek revival mansion which has been for many years one of the landmarks most closely associated with the character of the town, has been sold by Alfred Hall to the Strock family. Dr. Alvin E. Strock told the Gazette yesterday that there were no immediate plans for the future of the property other than that it will be preserved in its present dignity and tradition. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Wend will continue to be tenants.
March 25, 1966
As I Remember the Island 60 Years Ago
There were several deaf-and-dumb persons, as deaf-mutes were called, living in the Island towns. Although all of them were considered educated and could read and write, none of them depended upon this method of communicating with one another or with their more fortunate neighbors, but used the sign language. As a result, almost everyone old and young could converse to some extent with the deaf-mutes, and many could use the sign alphabet and spell out words and names for which there were no signs.
