From the Vineyard Gazette edition of July 6, 1962:

More than seventy-five fun-loving tots and forty-five interested adults were lined up along an Edgartown dock early one afternoon this week. Each squirmed to get on the Bonnie Jean, of fond memory for her service during the boatline strike two summers ago. She handled most of the transportation to and from the U.S.S. Glennon, the destroyer here for the Fourth of July activities.

Polly Hill was well known for her love of stewartia trees. They are greatly admired by our visitors and represent years of hard work. Through Polly’s efforts and our continued devotion to these trees, we now have a recognized national collection. What does that mean exactly? The primary objective for the development of a national collection is to assemble the most comprehensive collection of plants within a particular genus.

While marching in this year’s Fourth of July parade, fellow campers and I, along with our fun-loving counselors, will be all thinking about Helen Lamb. The founder of Camp Jabberwocky died peacefully in her summer cottage in Oak Bluffs last August at the age of 97. Sadness engulfed us when we learned of her passing. This summer Camp Jabberwocky will remember, and celebrate, her life.

An eight to ten-foot blue shark was spotted meandering the shallow waters of Dogfish Bar in Aquinnah on Saturday afternoon.

Benny Syslo, 20 of Chilmark, was out fishing for striped bass and bluefish with longtime friend Cam Alexander of Vineyard Haven in Mr. Syslo’s 21-foot Carolina Skiff on Saturday. At about 3 p.m., Mr. Syslo spotted the shark swimming close to the surface. The fish came into water as shallow as three feet, he said. They followed it for about a half hour.

Edgartown police and town officials are looking into whether sea planes are permitted on the Great Pond after neighborhood complaints of a Cessna Skyhawk landing there.

At the selectmen’s meeting Monday, town administrator Pamela Dolby said that over the last few weekends there have been reports of a sea plane landing in the Edgartown Great Pond, at Wilson’s Landing.

“It’s a great concern to people who live in the neighborhood,” Mrs. Dolby said.

Time is of the essence — an age-old adage. Nobody had to tell Rubin Cronig. At just 24 years of age, he has been embodying the mantra since he was 10.

Mary Hurley Gosselin had an awful blind date in high school. She and her date had gone to play mini golf, she remembered, but “the game was terrible, [and] the date was worse.” After that, Mrs. Gosselin said, “I wanted nothing to do with mini golf.”

The British came, but this time they were invited. In a replay with a twist of the New England battles that took place almost 236 years ago, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks took on the British National baseball team on Saturday evening.

It was the best night in recent memory. That was the feedback Martha’s Vineyard Museum executive director David Nathans said he received following the annual Evening of Discovery fundraiser on Saturday night. Held at the site of the museum’s future home, the old marine hospital overlooking the Lagoon Pond in Vineyard Haven, the event sold out for the first time in recent years and the mood was festive and upbeat.

Arts Crawl

The Arts District on Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs invites everyone to crawl with them evert Thursday evenings in July. All the galleries will stay open late for lingering over art with the artists, gallery owners and friends.

First evening crawl is this Thursday, July 5.