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Editor, Vineyard Gazette:
Permit me to express my interest in your account of early golfing on Martha’s Vineyard, as described in your issue of...
Golf is such an indispensable part of Island recreation that it seems impossible to imagine the Vineyard without it. However, in the nineties the...
Summer visitors play a large part in Vineyard activity and many who have spent summer after summer on the Island feel as deep an affection and...
When was the first bath tub brought to Martha’s Vineyard? Nantucket had a bath tub, weighing more than 800 pounds, in 1881. A Nantucketer reports...
To many of the summer residents of Martha’s Vineyard, Union Chapel services have become as much a part of their lives as the Vineyard itself. Each...
Just a few issues back, this column carried the biographical sketch of Joseph West of Chilmark, who is a deaf mute. This present article contains a...
This is the story of one who has lived always in the eternal silence, nearly three-quarters of a century without ever hearing the sound of human...
A quantity of customs house records, all that can be found of the invaluable files of the former Edgartown customs house, have been acquired by the...
That the world’s lone heath hen, Martha’s Vineyard’s most famous resident, was still alive September 13, is vouched for by Dr. John A.
A few years ago a newspaper cartoonist, who was portraying the childhood beginnings of many noted figures in American life, depicted William M....
At various times in recent years the name of Captain Isaac C. Norton has figured in print. The captain is one of those remarkable characters who...
Public attention is continually drawn to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, the only public institution of its kind in the county.