Gazette Chronicle
From the March 4, 1983 Reflections of That Man Friday column by William A. Caldwell: Depending on the distance intervening between you the beholder and it the beheld, the herring gull (Larus argentatus smithsonianus) is either (1) a thing of beauty and a joy forever or (2) loathesome, a dweeb, a nerd, yucky. Wheeling and glinting high on a blue morning sky over a great city or an inland valley, the gull signifies that you’re near the sea, nearer and nearer to the end of the journey, almost home.
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March, 1968: The sale of the Dunroving Ranch property at Menemsha was announced this week. The property includes 200 acres with several dwelling houses and about two-thirds of Prospect Hill. One of the Dunroving houses is the lovely old Cape Cod type farmhouse owned by Capt. Richard Flanders who, in the period of 1831 to 1861, was master of the whaleships Endeavor, Lucas, Almira, India and Falcon. The late Elmer J.
From the Feb. 1989 Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton: Let’s give a cheer for the winter people — that’s us, the folks who rattle around this place when off-Islanders ask: “What on earth do you do out there all winter?”
We’re here when the days are short, when the wind is out of the north and the cork is out of the bottle. And the ferries are few. When the Island is truly an island. And we love it because it is.
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of February, 1968: The prospect of a 40 per cent reduction in weekend seats and of a 20 per cent reduction in daily seats on Northeast Airlines flights between the Vineyard and New York next summer has been the cause of concern to the Island officials in recent weeks. The reduction is expected to come about because the runways at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport are not long enough for jet planes, and the smaller turbo-jet planes are not attractive to Northeast — or to other airlines — as investments.
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of Feb. 1978: The Island rocked back in a matter of hours from its two-round fight with the storm that left most of the state — and most of coastal New England — knocked out cold.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Aug. 24, 1874: On the afternoon of Saturday last the Island Home was described coming down the bay toward Katama, bearing on her gangway an object which for some time kept a merry throng of expectant guests in a flutter of excitement and anticipation, and when finally the steamer had approached so near that the mysterious object could be fully made out