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.

From the June 20, 1975 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Jaws, a film starring Martha’s Vineyard and a polyurethane shark named Bruce, will have its first showings tonight on the Island which was its birthplace.

From the June 11, 1937 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Some of the ways and roads most used by the motorists of the Vineyard in this generation did not exist a century ago.

Gazette Chronicle: From the May 25, 1979 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

From the May 17, 1940 edition of the Vineyard Gazette: Simon Pinkham, Vineyard Haven police officer, holds the distinction of having apprehended and landed the first striped bass of the season.