From the Vineyard Gazette editions of June, 1945:

The naming of Martha’s Vineyard remains one of the most fascinating of mysteries, although on the gentler side, and now comes George R. Stewart, in his excellent book, Names On the Land, with a new explanation. He recounts how Gabriel Archer, gentleman, accompanied Gosnold to these waters in 1602, and wrote a story of the voyage in which “the names were like raisins in pudding — man and tasty.” Haps Hill and Hill’s Hap, unfortunately vanished, were of Archer’s coining.

From the Gazette edition of May 15, 1953:

“I’m easing the limber holes in the floors,” Cap’n Roy Smith explained. “This brig doesn’t leak, but she does take rainwater, and there’s something gone wrong with the rain lately. She comes down loaded with germs and microbes, some of ‘em so big that they can’t go through the limber-holes! I’ve got to ease ‘em some, so’s the cussed microbes will run through to pump the intake!”

From past editions of the Vineyard Gazette:

The natural formation of the Island of Martha’s Vineyard is such that nature seems to have prepared an excellent route along the north shore, where a railroad can be constructed at a very small comparative expense. The highest land on the Island is an elevation, 100 to 300 feet high, extending along the sound nearly the whole distance.

From past editions of the Vineyard Gazette:

Interest in the newly-formed dairymen’s association of the Island continues to increase, as was evidenced by the large gathering which attended the meeting at Association Hall, Vineyard Haven, last weekend.

From the edition of May 15, 1987:

On Martha’s Vineyard we turn to a time in the 1840s, a little over a half century after the signing of the Constitution, in the first years the Vineyard Gazette served the Island as the community of record.

From the edition of May 22, 1987:

There’s a new and seasonal sort of traffic on the Beach Road in Vineyard Haven these days, as the sailboats of summer make their way down to the water for another season. Large sailboats emerge slowly from the lagoonside sheds of the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, to the boat lift and into warming harbor waters.