An estimated 200 people stood squinting in the brilliant, hot sun Sunday afternoon, and watched Gordon Kelvin White and Robert Eldridge White Jr. raise the United States flag slowly to the top of a tall aluminum flagpole set in front of the new Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

Remember the first day back at school when the teacher used to tell us to write a composition on What I Did During My Vacation?

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 18, 1967: By tradition the word factory conjures up the image of a monstrous functional building that bristles with highrise chimneys belching forth noxious fumes, its walls pockmarked by sightless windows.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 27, 1926: Ten liquor raids, made almost simultaneously by the combined police forces of the three down-Island towns, created much excitement in Oak Bluffs on Saturday night.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 26, 1920: A rakish gray ship steals up the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard. If you are close enough you may see and hear that all is not well on board.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 2, 1985: It is difficult today to imagine a Vineyard which not only fed itself, but produced a substantial surplus which it exported to the mainland.