From an August, 1984 column by William Caldwell:

Attentive reading of the letters to the editors of your favorite semiweekly newspaper compels the conclusion that everybody is sore at everybody. Beware.

Vox populi, vox Dei. So the wisdom-smitten have been telling us for the thousand years since Alcuin first said it to Charlemagne, and, O.K., it is the philosophic underpinning of the democratic form of government.

Mishaps and Movies

From Gazette editions of August, 1984:

The Rev. John D. Schule, minister of the Edgartown Federated Church, was out jogging the other day at 7 a.m. in the fire trail in the State Forest when something came crashing out of the blue, blindsiding him and knocking him to the ground. “I had run about four miles when it happened,” he recalls. “At first I thought I had been ambushed. I thought I had been mugged. I was scared.”

From a 1964 Gazette Column by Joseph Chase Allen:

There are inhabitants of the Island, especially of Vineyard Haven, who can recall a rather tumbledown but relatively large wharf far down the shore below the town’s present small boat basin.

Clocking the Turkey

From Gazette editions of August, 1934:

Bird of Paradise

From Gazette editions of July, 1959:

From a Gazette edition of 1929: