Windy Days

From Gazette editions of October, 1985:

Chowder

From the Chowder Files:

Bounded by Nature

From Gazette editions of October, 1960:

In one of the major real estate transactions of the year, involving the future of the Edgartown golf course and of golf as it has been played there since 1928, the course is about to pass from the ownership of Cornelius Lee to the Edgartown Golf Club Inc. Mr. Lee stepped down from the presidency last summer, to be succeeded by Robert Brown Jr.

Autumn Tales

From Gazette editions of October, 1935:

Keeping the Light On

From a 1932 Gazette:

“Work for Uncle Sam, the best employer there is,” read various advertisements. The following is written about a man who has spent virtually his entire life in the service of the United States, and is still holding a government position: Solomon McLeod Attaquin of Gay Head, assistant keeper of the Gay Head lighthouse.

Prickly Thistles

From Gazette editions of September, 1985:

The transition into the school season brings a big change into the lives of students across the Island each September, and the youngest sometimes feel this most poignantly. Mary Jacobson, principal of the Chilmark School, had a story to share this week about a first grader.

Little Lev Wlodyka went to the school telephone at 10:15 Monday morning and called home.