From the Vineyard Gazette edition of January, 1970:

In the decade just past, Gay Head has become a National Landmark, Cedar Tree Neck has been preserved as a nature sanctuary, Felix Neck a guarded precinct for wildlife, Wasque Point has been saved, Dodger Hole Swamp was a gift to the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation and the Alexander S. Reed Bird Refuge was established.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July, 1970: The preliminary census report released this week indicates that there are 318 fewer Dukes County residents this year than there were a decade ago.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of July 6, 1962:

More than seventy-five fun-loving tots and forty-five interested adults were lined up along an Edgartown dock early one afternoon this week. Each squirmed to get on the Bonnie Jean, of fond memory for her service during the boatline strike two summers ago. She handled most of the transportation to and from the U.S.S. Glennon, the destroyer here for the Fourth of July activities.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of July 1963:

Edgartown’s annual Fourth of July celebration will begin on July 3 with the arrival of the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Steinaker in Edgartown harbor at 10 a.m. The welcoming committee will board her, and then Commander William McGovern will be piped on shore at the Edgartown Yacht Club about 11 a.m. by the Edgartown Boys’ Club Bugle and Drum Corps.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1970:

A writer’s retreat, a think tank, a junior college, an experimental division of the University of Massachusetts, a vocational school, a microcosm for study of the environment, a structured college — all were among proposals made Wednesday for a new kind of institution of higher education on the Vineyard.

Nineteen per cent of the approximately 42 miles of sand beach on the Vineyard are open without exception to the general public. By any ordinary standard it would seem that 19 per cent — almost a fifth — was an extremely generous proportion.