Commentary
If it weren’t for the war.
Fifty years ago this winter, in February, 1958, I began my journalistic career as editor of a fledgling monthly...
EXCELLENT SUMMARY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The story about the Edgartown Great Pond Estuaries Study was an excellent summary of a problem that...
A Linotype Man to the End
Jonathan Sawyer, whose unexpected death Nov. 21 was reported in last Friday’s Gazette, was for twenty years a mainstay...
50 Years Ago:
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November, 1957:
Hi, I am the editor for this week’s Sophomores Speak Out. Students have chosen to write about a variety of topics this week about events happening...
T wo weeks ago a group of Vineyard farmers , selectmen, county commissioners and other Islanders interested in farming heard about the advantages...
Rarely does the genteel card game of bridge merit both a news story on the front page of the arts section and an editorial in The New York Times,...
Even before the 30th annual Island Cup game began on Saturday, things didn't look good for the visiting Whalers from Nantucket.
When the players...
Thanksgiving 2007
FOR NANCY WHITING
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Nancy Whiting, former librarian of the West Tisbury...
I’m trying to be thankful, and that should be easy at this time of year. Here I am in Chilmark where I enjoy the legacy left by my parents, Henry...
A Real Thanksgiving
Written by Henry Beetle Hough. From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Nov. 19, 1971:
Thanksgiving editorials and proclamations...