You can still waltz in Oak Bluffs' nightspots, and you can still hear some good piano, but from now on you won't be able to boogie or rock and roll in drinking places.

From the July 17, 1934 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Here it is, mid-July on Martha's Vineyard, a pleasant time at a pleasant place.

From the July 14, 1959 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Mainland newspapers glibly spoke of “baby hurricanes” but old-timers of the Vineyard would have called Friday night’s storm, or rather, that of early Saturday morning, “a williwaw.”

Samuel Osborn Jr. of Edgartown writes that “S. S. Daggett, jailer, born Aug. 20, 1799, related to me that the first celebration of the Fourth of July was observed in Edgartown, July 4, 1777.

They had an old-fashioned hearth-warming party at Tom’s Neck farm on Chappaquiddick on Sunday afternoon. It was a gathering of relatives and old Island friends. They lit a fire.