Old Vineyard boatmen have said that if any man can operate a craft of any sort around the Island of Martha’s Vineyard and keep out of trouble, he can get by as a boatman anywhere.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of May 6, 1977: The first woman to be elected selectman in Chilmark remembers being the sixth Democrat to register in the town.

The dial telephone system, which will be introduced to Martha's Vineyard on May 5 in Chilmark, will need no introduction to Mrs. Janet Swift of Vineyard Haven, whose father, James Laurence McQuarrie, was responsible for its invention.

Easter on the Vineyard this year was all shine and sparkle. The sun was warm, the moon and the ferries full, and the sea ruffled and smiling as if it were dreaming of June.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of April 11, 1958 by Elizabeth B. Hough: Edgartown had a brief sample on Saturday of total war — war from the skies. Perhaps others of the Vineyard towns had the same experience.

Will you permit me to call the attention of our townspeople to a sample proposition looking to the improvement of our village and which seems to me very feasible.