I was delighted to see Stanley Larsen spotlighted on the front page of this week’s paper. Not only is his Menemsha Fish Market a first rate business, but Stanley

The West Tisbury Mill Pond is a biological treasure. To remove the dam would be a biological disaster.

The Scottish Society of Martha’s Vineyard would like to thank all those who helped to make our annual Robert Burns dinner such a success. We’d especially like to thank those who contributed to our scholarship fund auction and raffle.

From the Vineyard Gazette edition of Aug. 24, 1874: On the afternoon of Saturday last the Island Home was described coming down the bay toward Katama, bearing on her gangway an object which for some time kept a merry throng of expectant guests in a flutter of excitement and anticipation, and when finally the steamer had approached so near that the mysterious object could be fully made out

Excerpts from town columns of the Vineyard Gazette of January 1890:

Gay Head: The fisherman who have been fishing the past season at Noman’s Land have now all returned with good fares. Mr. Wm Vanderhoop was high hook with 1,800 pounds. The season lasts about a month.

Steam tug Geo. W. Hunt is expected this week from New Bedford with coal, provisions and other supplies. On her return trip she will take a cargo of codfish to the mainland.

Around late January the holiday cheer begins to run thin. The harbor might be frozen over which means no boat. No boat!? Damn, I’m out of booze.

You’d think that by now a little planning would have been appropriate. Hell no. On the island, planning is just not part of the fun. In Dickie’s case, planning ahead wouldn’t matter and in fact could be fatal. Whether Dickie buys a bottle or a case, he just sits down and drinks it until it’s all gone. Five cases would be fatal and he knows it.