Cynthia Meisner

Gazette Chronicle: Lobster Tales

Cynthia Meisner |

Lobster Tales

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1983:

John T. Hughes joined a distinguished team of ocean scientists from around the world for a trip to the once-closed nation of China. His passport was his career here on the Island, as a leading biologist studying Homarus americanus — the American lobster. His expertise is unequalled and often sought out by those interested in the raising of lobsters. Mr. Hughes built and has managed the state lobster hatchery in Oak Bluffs since its inception in 1949.

 

 

 

Tuesday Chronicle: Place Worth Its Salt

Cynthia Meisner

From a July, 1960 Gazette:

Important as salt is and has been to the welfare of humanity the world over, and extensive as the industry of salt-making has been on Martha’s Vineyard, history has almost nothing to say about the Island industry. In the history by Dr. Charles Banks he merely states that there were extensive saltworks on Bass Creek in Vineyard Haven in 1840 and that others were operated near the herring creek (Tashmoo, presumably).

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Tuesday Chronicle: Sticking Points

Cynthia Meisner

From Gazette editions of July, 1935:

Not all the apprehension about summer weather is justified. Take fog, for instance. From the standpoint of the fisherman or mariner, fog is always undesirable; but from the standpoint of the summer vacationer a certain amount of it may be admitted. In fact, no vacation would be complete without a certain number of fogs, some of them of the famous pea soup variety such as we have already had in the past week or two.

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