For the Love of Gold

From Gazette editions of 1850:

From letters received in town from a member of the “Vineyard Mining Company,” who proceeded to California in the bark Sarah:

Devil’s Den

From a 1933 Gazette edition:

Many Vineyarders and many Island visitors have heard the name the Devil’s Den. And there are many Islanders and others who have visited the place when it was intact. Yet so great are the changes wrought by the activities of man and nature in the space of a few decades that comparatively few people can find the spot today, and only a few know the history of this spot that bears such a fearsome name.

More Things Change . . .

From Gazette editions of January, 1985:

A Golden Incentive

From Gazette editions of January, 1960:

Personal Touches

From Gazette editions of January, 1935:

Light in Darkness

From earlier Christmas editions of the Gazette:

Chickadess perch on each wreath

Of greenery and underneath

The rabbits scamper past.

And nothing daunts the cheerful glow

Though falling sleet and driving snow

Come hissing on the blast.

True emblem of all pleasing things

The holly every winter brings

Amidst the frost and rime

Green leaves and ruddy berries ‘glow

And on humanity bestows