Gazette Chronicle
The Beatrice House was called the Central House, tents lined the streets of Cottage City and the tabernacle was roofed with canvas.
The illumination of Clinton avenue Saturday night was fully up to the high standard of excellence, established last year.
On a black night almost 37 years ago, August 11, 1883, a summer visitor stood on Vineyard Haven wharf.
When Lady Bird Johnson walks among wildflowers at the home of an Island friend near Watcha Pond, she steps lightly and speaks gently.
Perhaps at sometime in the distant future, the Island of Martha’s Vineyard may be referred to as Greater Martha’s Vineyard.
From the Cottagers’ Corner column in the July 1969 editions of the Vineyard Gazette by Dorothy West.