Cynthia Meisner

Gazette Chronicle: Lobster Tales

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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: Scrub Oak Dryers

Cynthia Meisner

From a 1970 Gazette article by Joseph Chase Allen:

Childhood memories retain the picture of the scrub tree, a relic of the past found quite close to the door of some farmhouse kitchen. It is a weathered skeleton of a scrub oak with half a dozen of its principal limbs remaining, every particle of bark removed. Its trunk sawed off above the stump, it extended its bare limbs to the four winds. On wash day garments hung out to dry decorated its limbs after the practice of a forgotten era.

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Gazette Chronicle: An Island to Call Home

Cynthia Meisner

An Island to Call Home

From a 1985 Gazette article by Janet Bosworth:

One stormy night in May 1888, the schooner Onrust in ballast, bound from Fall River for Calais, brought up hard and fast on Schooner Reef, on the shore of Cuttyhunk. All aboard were rescued by the Cuttyhunk members of the Massachusetts Humane Society. The next day, the second mate, Tom Jones, looked around at the island, liked what he saw and decided to remain.

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