From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1912:

The Chappaquiddick beach illumination and boat parade was a magnificent spectacle. The harborfront was gay with lanterns moving to and fro and the U.S. revenue cutter Acushnet and state steamer Lexington were anchored off the beach

From the Sept. 6, 1894 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

Give attention, kind friends,

and harken good neighbors.

And for a brief time

abstain from your labors,

For our Fair is approaching,

and whate’er your vocation,

We entreat your heartiest

co-operation;

But first of all, farmers,

(We trust you will note it.)

The part most important

will be what you make it.

From an August 1988 column by Arthur Railton:

Okay, so you live on an Island. But that doesn’t make you an Islander. An island is geography — land completely surrounded by water. That makes the Vineyard an Island all right.

From Vineyard Gazette editions of July and August 1888:

Edgartown is now entertaining quite a number of summer visitors at hotels and private residences. Every train brings the stranger and returning Vineyarder, all rejoicing in the prospect of a week’s outing at this charming seaport town. All in all, Edgartown is enjoying a fair share of the Island’s prosperity, and the visitors always depart with a reluctance that speaks well for the hospitality and attractions to which the town has treated them.

From Gazette editions of July, 1934:

Here it is, summer on Martha’s Vineyard, a pleasant time at a pleasant place. We are always tempted at about this phase of every summer season to look around and take stock, or, if that is too businesslike a phrase to use in association with the Island, to form a picture of the busy, idle summer.

From the Gazette editions of August, 1934:

Bradlee Martin, sage of Tiah’s Cove, came into town on Tuesday, looking, as he said, “for a sight of them yatches.” “Big doin’s up around our way,” observed Bradlee. “I’ve always told Pashy not to set the alarm clock for earlier than 3 o’ clock, and the other morning it went off and I jumped out of bed and had the milk pail on my arm before I noticed that the hands pointed to 1 a.m.