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 Beginning From Gazette editions of June, 1959:
I recently returned from a three-week hiking trip in the Ozarks, in time for a second springtime here on-Island. Spring here seems to be about a...
Walking Tall, for a Good Cause This evening begins one of the most poignant and boisterous and multigenerational and successful of the many annual...
No Longer Golden Pond Sengekontacket Pond is in trouble, but not from bacterial contamination, making the state-mandated summer closures on the...
From a June Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton:
Editor’s. Note: The Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank recently sponsored an essay contest for school children in grades five, six and seven, in honor...
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Letters to the Editor
David Handlin, have you no shame? How presumptuous, maybe delusional, of you to put yourself in the same shoes as some of the great masters of modern...
I found architect David Handlin’s letter published on August 10 in defense of building enormous homes on the Vineyard specious on many fronts....
I’m outraged by David Handlin’s letter which was published in the Gazette on August 10. Instead of thoughtfully engaging in the actual debate, his...