From the May 24, 1974 edition of the Gazette: Memorial Day on Martha’s Vineyard is something more than a patriotic holiday, the occasion of the first of the season’s three long weekends, and a glowing festival of flowering trees and beach plums.
A vexed subject in Vineyard history came up last week with the difficulty in deciding whether a particular hillside in the East Chop region was a park, a mysteriously named “plaza,” or just ordinary private property.
From the Sept. 13, 1988 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:
Eddie Gentle 3rd of Edgartown, a senior at the regional high school, leads the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby with a 15.57-pound bluefish he caught Saturday morning.
The crowd that assembled at the Oak Bluffs town bathing beach yesterday morning may have believed that pirate treasure had been uncovered.
The terrific north-easterly storm which swept the eastern Massachusetts coast on Tuesday was felt with unusual severity on the Vineyard.
You can still waltz in Oak Bluffs' nightspots, and you can still hear some good piano, but from now on you won't be able to boogie or rock and roll in drinking places.
From the July 17, 1934 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Here it is, mid-July on Martha's Vineyard, a pleasant time at a pleasant place.
