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!”
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Very often I consider in private how idiosyncratic Island people and culture are. The shark tournament held in Oak Bluffs every year is a case in...
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Friday June 29 was the perfect summer evening at Featherstone Center for the Arts. The weather was warm, the grounds were beautiful and the stars...