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!”
The Lash House is for sale. For a small group of people, that single sentence carries paragraphs if not pages of meaning.
Here is a sobering fact: we live on an Island and the sea is rising. The consensus among coastal scientists is that our children or grandchildren...
Anglers and Their Fish By Red Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist for the New York Times and a Chilmark seasonal visitor for nearly...
Still On Time The Chappaquiddick Ferry, that tidy, profitable and often forgotten enterprise which plies the tideswept entrance to the Edgartown...
Beacons of History They stand tall and straight on the horizon, an enduring symbol of the Island’s long and rich maritime history. Viewed from a...
An Editor’s Musings From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1982:
TURNED OFF Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Tilton House Editors, Vineyard Gazette: Hello. I am wondering if anyone could send me some photos of the Tilton house as it looks today. Our...
RARE SURVIVOR Editors, Vineyard Gazette: Carole Cohen misses the point. I did not decide the pre-Revolutionary Tilton/Weckman house was...