Historical Produce

From Gazette editions of August, 1935:

From a Gazette edition in 1958:

Martha’s Vineyard is famous for many things, not least of which are the waters which surround it. Explorers from the earliest times remarked upon the tidal phenomena which were and still are of unbelievable nature.

In a Blink of the Eye

From Gazette editions of August, 1960:

A Cast Into the Past

From Gazette editions of July, 1935:

From a July, 1960 Gazette:

Important as salt is and has been to the welfare of humanity the world over, and extensive as the industry of salt-making has been on Martha’s Vineyard, history has almost nothing to say about the Island industry. In the history by Dr. Charles Banks he merely states that there were extensive saltworks on Bass Creek in Vineyard Haven in 1840 and that others were operated near the herring creek (Tashmoo, presumably).

The Business of Life

From Gazette editions of July, 1985: