From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Dec. 23, 1909:

The “corner store” in Edgartown is the center of attraction for all shoppers just now. Everybody is enthusiastic over their magnificent stock of Christmas goods, the largest, finest and handsomest in this portion of the Western Hemisphere. If you once permit yourself to see their goods you will be sure to leave your money with them.

From the Dec. 10, 1993 Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton:

It was a couple of weeks before Christmas nearly 70 years ago, about 5 o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon. I remember the day and the time because I was on my way home from choir practice which, for us boys, was every Tuesday after school. I was a boy soprano in the all-male choir of Grace Episcopal Church in Lawrence. We were all paid, not much, but paid. It was the only time in my life anybody ever paid me to sing. Grace was a pretty fancy church and very proud of its choir.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Dec. 1954:

And now comes Christmas! Heralded by the stringing of colored lights and standards along the village streets, the dressing of the store windows, and the appearance of the bundles of Christmas trees outside of the grocery stores, the “gladdest season of the year” is at hand.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November 1955: In the 27 years that one Edgartown family has watched Sheriff’s Meadow Pond morning, noon and night, storm and calm, summer and winter, they have never witnessed the phenomenon of a November freeze-up of that two-acre body of water. But that was what happened during the night of Tuesday, Nov. 22, 1955. Every square inch of the Pond was covered with ice, approximately half an inch thick, and the utter calm of the night and morning had turned the surface into a glassy mirror.

Mrs.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of Nov. 1971:

Until killing frosts ravage the scarlet cranberries in Manuel S. Duarte’s six-acre bog at Cranberry Acres off Lambert’s Cove Road, there is profuse picking for industrious jelly and sauce makers. The public has been invited to help themselves.

From the Gazette editions of November, 1934:

One of the best indications of whether the Vineyard is getting along well in winter is the presence or absence in the chilly air of the sound of the carpenter’s saw and hammer. We need a business in building to maintain employment between seasons. This year the better housing program of the Federal Housing Administration should make it easier for homeowners to remodel and improve their properties.