From a summer, 1962 Gazette:

History has much to say about Indian wampum, or “shell-money,” as it is sometimes called. Apparently all Indians east of the Mississippi used wampum for money or other purposes, and even some of those who lived far from the coastal areas but who prized this product of the fishing Indians’ ingenuity.

Editor’s Note: What follows is the text of the speech given by Marc Lefevre, mayor of Sainte-Mè re-É glise honoring Fred B. Morgan Jr. and Duaine Pinkston, medics of the 505 PIR, 82nd AB. Mr. Morgan traveled to Normandy this week for the event; a story about his trip appears on Page Five in today’s edition.

My parents’ best friend, the artist William Blakesley, has a birthday tradition of hosting his friends for a restaurant dinner. This year he has been planning the seating for some months and asked my father six months beforehand to make the toast, although forbidding him from starting with the words, Dearly Beloved.

What follows are an edited selection of reader comments reacting to the June 3 Gazette story about new rules for dogs on Lambert’s Cove Beach.

What a miserable enforcement nightmare this will be. Joan’s life is busy enough already, without adding this sort of automatic-torture “legislation.”

Tom Hodgson

West Tisbury

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Memo to Oak Bluffs: Action Plan Needed

Effective governing, like almost everything else in life, begins with good intentions. But success ultimately rests on good actions.