We present to our readers this morning, the first number of “The Vineyard Gazette.”

The great age of scrapbooks, so far as the Vineyard is concerned, was back in the nineteenth century

Archaeologists surveying the future site of the Martha's Vineyard Museum in Vineyard Haven recently found traces of human use dating back thousands of years.

The world’s greatest steamship disaster — the sinking of the great White Star liner Titanic.

In December Tim Sauer, an Islander who likes to go out metal detecting, found a 1652 pine tree shilling, the oldest coin known to have been found on Martha’s Vineyard.

Eel Pond, anciently so named, is no longer a pond. From some points of view it has the character of an inland sea.