Gazette Chronicle
As surely as winter sets in and the weather becomes cold and uncomfortable, there is talk of eel stifle among Vineyarders.
Parties are different on the Island in February. There’s an almost imperceptible clouding of the atmosphere; a tincture of desperation underlies the natural sociability of man during this monstrous month.
The idea of electric power and lights for Chilmark is revived by the sight of tall poles being set on Abel’s Hill, with the telephone cables carried on cross-arms about halfway up the poles.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Feb. 6, 1948 by Joseph Chase Allen: It is probable that not in many a year has a winter excited so much comment as the present one, and all in the same vein.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Jan. 30, 1942: The blue and gold and green Vineyard summer came alive in the midst of a New York winter last week.
There is only one person on the Island, so far as we can learn, who has subscribed for the Vineyard Gazette ever since it was founded in 1846.