Great is the fame of Martha’s Vineyard as the breeding place of geese, but an entirely new chapter has been added to the already long history of Vineyard goose breeding by Leo Volgmuth of Chilmark, who has trained a tall and dignified gander to accompany his master much like a pet dog.

The first exports from New England to Europe were two cargoes of sassafras, gathered by Martin Pring and his company on Martha’s Vineyard and the neighboring islands and taken by Pring to England in ship Speedwell and bark Discoverer, two small vessels.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Jan. 25, 1985: The computer age has come to the Edgartown Free Public Library. Actually, it arrived quietly in the last weeks of 1984. Head librarian Linda Norton explains:

Time totters on, and almost any day now — the word “day” being used in its Genesis or geological sense — the Islander will stop his car on the shoulder of some road leading away from the ferry slip in Vineyard Haven and take aboard the two young hitchhikers and their baby and their dog and their orange backpacks.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of January 5, 1940:

The first real snowfall of winter began Friday night and continued through Saturday morning, until the Island was covered to a depth of four to five inches. There were no large drifts in most neighborhoods, but the snow proved to be a taste of genuine winter just the same. The snow clung to trees and fences, and the outlook everywhere was spectacularly beautiful.