Gazette Chronicle
What of the Vineyard as it lived and breathed had its being on the Gazette’s natal day, one hundred years ago, May 14?
From the May 7, 1965 edition of the Vineyard Gazette by Constance Greenough Fuller:
The boathouse at Gay Head, built years ago by the Massachusetts Humane Society to house a lifeboat, has been purchased by Mrs. A. N. Piper of New York city.
Anciently, the hand liners salted menhaden, cutting the fillets from the bone, washing and salting them as carefully as if they were going to eat ‘em themselves.
The sun came out and the weather warmed up enough so that Corporal McIntire’s assistant was asked to slip down to Main street and get ice cream cones.
A large number of the voters of Edgartown assembled in the Town Hall, to transact the business necessary for a proper maintenance of law and good order.