Vineyard Chowder From the May 8, 1936 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: One of the reasons for visiting the Island of Martha’s Vineyard is to discover Vineyard chowder. There is a story, handed down from the remote past, that a real clam chowder is the gift of Martha’s Vineyard to the rest of the world. But only on the Island can all the satisfaction of the original be enjoyed.

From the May 4 1951 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The Gay Head Light, oldest beacon on the Vineyard, has burned on for 152 years.

The extreme clipper schooner, Shenandoah, Capt. Robert S. Douglas, master, arrived at her home port, Vineyard Haven, during the weekend.

The 83-foot sea-scalloper Stanley M. Fisher, Capt. George H. Fisher of Oak Bluffs, came up with perhaps the biggest catch of this or any other season last Thursday night, the Navy’s nuclear powered submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus.

Easter came and went quietly, unmarked by much of the traditional pre-summer bustle, but with a lifting influence that was noticeable everywhere.

From Through the winter and into the spring, the building boom on the Vineyard has continued with an undiminished fervor,