From the Sept. 12, 1958 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: And when some youthful hearer asked what the Eel-pot may have been those same elders “closed their hatches” with abruptness and said no more.

Schools have opened; and their opening recalls the almost-forgotten times of other Island schools that shaped the growing minds of a generation.

Although thousands of summer visitors have gone to their homes, thousands yet remain to enjoy the good weather and the pleasures that still remain here.

From the August 22, 1975 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Alice D. Methewson doesn't remember when there were horse races on Whiting's field during the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society's Livestock Show and Fair.

From the August 20, 1926 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

From the August 13, 1935 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: The preliminary report of the most recent census of agriculture is likely to be somewhat baffling to Islanders.