From the Sept. 10, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Vineyard youth turned out for the opening day of school.

From the August 30, 1965 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The blossoms of rose of sharon bushes are already pronouncing a dirge for August.

There is a kind of chanting, simmering, persuasive music these August nights which reminds one that although the pinkletinks have to work alone, the crickets, locusts et al, have a symphony orchestra of many virtuosos.

In the days before dieting and nightly cocktail parties, when Island life was not yet blighted by the confusion and congestion of too many automobiles, ice cream parlors were the popular gathering places — the Vineyard’s equivalent of the sidewalk cafe.

The crowd that assembled at the Oak Bluffs town bathing beach yesterday morning may have believed that pirate treasure had been uncovered.

The terrific north-easterly storm which swept the eastern Massachusetts coast on Tuesday was felt with unusual severity on the Vineyard.