Gazette Chronicle
Thoughts of a fabulous sea serpent came to the fore when Capt. Claude Wagner, skipper of the schooner Liberty of Edgartown, reported sighting a strange sea monster last Saturday.
From the “On Circuit Avenue, And All About Town” column by Louise Aldrich Bugbee in the Vineyard Gazette edition of March 8, 1974:
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of March 1948:
Well, we have distracted your attention long enough to get across the creek, and here we are right in front of what is known today as the Franklin Tilton house. This, I understand, was the first house where now stands the cluster known as Menemsha.
As the result of interest shown at a meeting Monday night, the Island now has a chapter of its own of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The feeling of peace is still at Wasque, but now it is that uneasy peace that follows great upheavals, for the sea has pounded in, has gnawed and chewed away at this corner of land. The little beach pond is no more.