Gazette Chronicle: From the July 13, 1982 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Tom Rush was arrested for skinny-dipping in Chilmark. With his clothes on.

It begins. Everyone starts marching in a straight line around the room to the beat of an old Chubby Checker recording, but our line soon becomes a doodle, then morphs into an interpretative dance.

From the July 8, 1958 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: What Edgartown police estimated to be “in the neighborhood of 15,000 people” swarmed through Edgartown on the night of the Fourth of July.

From the June 24, 1949 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: One hundred years ago the character of the Island population was distinctly amphibious. Fishermen-farmers were everywhere and bona-fide seafarers were to be found in every town.