From the June 20, 1975 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Jaws, a film starring Martha’s Vineyard and a polyurethane shark named Bruce, will have its first showings tonight on the Island which was its birthplace.

From the June 11, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Some of the ways and roads most used by the motorists of the Vineyard in this generation did not exist a century ago.

Em Elliott — the familiar form of Emulous C. (for Carter) Elliott — of Edgartown was talking the other day about his steamboat days.

Until comparatively recent years the people of Martha’s Vineyard have gained what wealth they may have possessed from the sea.

Gazette Chronicle: From the May 25, 1979 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

From the May 17, 1940 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Simon Pinkham, Vineyard Haven police officer, holds the distinction of having apprehended and landed the first striped bass of the season.