From a 1958 essay by Onslow Robinson:

Where was the Oyster Shell Road? What part of Vineyard Haven was known as Down the Neck? And did you ever hear of the Pine Tree Club?

From Gazette editions of March, 1937: Now the last resident of Christiantown is gone. No Indians have lived in that almost deserted village of old times for some years

From a February, 1952 edition of the Gazette: It is at this time of year when, traditionally, the earth is about as cheerless as to aspect as it ever is in New England, that the thoughts of the coastal folk turn to clams.

From Gazette editions of February, 1962:

Edgartown voters in an expeditious annual town meeting exorcised that old devil zoning with their usual robust enthusiasm, this time by defeating the project for a zoning committee with $1,000 for expenses, but otherwise went along with the recommendations of the advisory committee. The school remodeling and the new pumper for the fire department were the two big money items, and these went through easily.

From Gazette editions of February, 1987:

The Martha’s Vineyard State Forest by any other name still brings the name of Manuel F. (Manny) Correllus to the minds of most Islanders, and some of them now want the state legislature to make it official.

From Gazette editions of February, 1937:

With the sale of Capt. Isaac Norton’s fast schooner, Malvina B., less than a year since the B.T. Hillman, Capt. Horace Hillman, gave her parting salute to her home port