From Gazette editions of May 1987:

On Sunday, when the sun came out, I took to the West Tisbury woods to see what, during last week’s dank, dark days when I stayed indoors might have arrived unheralded. In a moment in the spring so much peeks forth from under the brown leaves of winter, and it is a pity to miss any of it.

From past Gazette spring editorials:

Fog is our closest companion in these early days of spring when the air is warm and the water still cold. Fog conceals a message in the mist and in the tapestry it weaves. It tells us spring is trying to burst the barriers of these cloudy banks, that the season is struggling to slip in edgewise. And the barriers will burst in time.

From Gazette spring editorials:

The trailing arbutus is not the first flower of spring — it appears after the skunk cabbage, for instance — but it has as distinctive a place in the emblemology of the spring season as the Easter lily. Its appearance is hailed with singular delight, and with good reason, for in the whole cycle of the year there is no near equivalent of its delicate pink and white beauty, woodland essence, and unforgettable perfume.

From Gazette editions of April, 1987: A monster lobster was landed this week by the 75-foot fishing boat Unicorn out of Menemsha. Capt. Gregory Mayhew and his mate Dominique Penicaud came ashore with a 17-pound male lobster

From Gazette editions of April, 1937:

Four three-masted schooners crossed Vineyard Haven harbor mouth early Monday, all being in sight from the shore at once. This is a rare sight in these days of steamers, but skippers of these coasters report that strikes of steamers’ crews and freight handlers have brought a number of schooners out of their retirement and into traffic once more.

From Gazette editions of March, 1962:

Chilmark voters disposed of their annual warrant, voting on twenty-one articles. Sixty voters attended, and might well go on record as being one of the most harmonious town meetings ever held in the ancient manor. The meeting opened with a silent tribute to the late D. Herbert Flanders, veteran office-holder, although only 60 when he died.