An Island is necessarily a place of absolute limits — space, water and resources.

From the December 3, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

As a deaf student, I couldn’t wait to explore an Island that was once teeming with people just like me.

This book is a labor of love — of Lake Michigan, and, in particular, of North Manitou Island, today part of a national park but for generations before that, an island for farming, fishing and vacationing.

On Monday morning, the boom of shotguns echoed across the Island landscape, signaling the start of the two-week deer shotgun hunting season.

From the November 30, 1956 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Post-Thanksgiving short takes: Out at Heathland Farms, George Schwab, second in command, was wearily dispensing one of the last of the thousands of turkeys they provided for Island feasting, a glassy look in his eye, and a muttered “gobble-gobble” his answer to most questions.