An Editor’s Musings

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1982:

50 Years Ago

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1957:

By Art Railton, from his ‘Just a Thought’ columns, as published in the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1991:

I’m a television weather buff, a compulsive channel switcher, trying to find out for sure what tomorrow’s weather will be. I just can’t get enough of those satellite shots. And no wonder. After 20 minutes of fires in a Pawtucket three-decker, or a car wrapped around a tree in Kingston, or a half-dozen Boston detectives gloating over a $1 million drug haul, I relish something cheerful.

75 Years Ago

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1932:

“Millions viewed the eclipse.” So said the mainland newspapers, and the Vineyard added its thousands to the common mass. Plans for obtaining the best view of this unusual display in the heavens were formulated days previous in many cases, several of the larger pleasure craft of the Island ports setting sail early Wednesday morning with groups of guests on board, bound easterly where the eclipse was more nearly total.

By Polly Woollcott Murphy. From the Vineyard Gazette editions of November 1976:

50 Years Ago

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of September, 1957: