The Beginning

From Gazette editions of June, 1959:

From a June Just a Thought column by Arthur Railton:

Rescuing the Messboy

From Gazette editions of May, 1934:

That Stockbridge Crowd

From Gazette editions of May, 1984:

Tom Thatcher of West Tisbury signed papers that officially sold the Lillian Manter Memorial Youth Hostel on the Edgartown-West Tisbury road to American Youth Hostels, Inc. of Washington and the Metropolitan New York Council in New York city. Mr. Thatcher has owned the hostel since 1968, and had managed it since 1964.

Talk of the Town

From Gazette editions of May, 1909:

A Merry Month

From earlier May Gazette editions:

May is here again with bird song and budding leaves. The month in Vineyard history has its unique significance, for it was on the 24th of May in the year 1602 that Bartholomew Gosnold in his “small barke” named Concord doubled a cape which he and his men called Dover Cliff on account of its great white outcroppings, later identified as Gay Head.