From the May 3, 1974 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Polly Woollcott Murphy:
“May Day!” the children said to each other with palpable excitement as they gathered in the West Tisbury schoolyard on Wednesday morning. “May Day!”
Opinion
The days keep changing, the length of light withdrawing at an almost imperceptible pace now.
Friends say that now that I am older, I should no longer walk alone in the woods — even near Glimmerglass Pond in West Tisbury.
My favorite road on the Island is Middle Road. I love its hills and its lovely views. What I love the most is the view from Brookside Farm.
A gaff-rigged boat named Vanity Still sails Nantucket Sound. Her sail scrubbed clean and white Spars varnished gleaming brown.
I had just reached into the bedroom closet. Looking back at me from the shoulder of a shirt on a hanger inside the closet was a snake.
Summer has arrived, the crowd of summer visitors and vacationists in each Island town increases daily.
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Letters to the Editor
I moved to Martha’s Vineyard 12 years ago and have found one area, women’s alternative care, lacking.
Re: the story in the Gazette last week about welcoming ceremonies for a visiting veteran.
We are residents of the houses abutting Washington Park, where the Martha’s Vineyard Craft Beer Festival was held.