I love October and I enjoy creating my own calendars so here are some of my calendar pictures from the past 6 Octobers. Hello again October and welcome…
And this perfect description of Autumn on Martha’s Vineyard published in the Vineyard Gazette a few years ago.
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Long ago and far away in the year of 1984 a staff of very clever, creative and whimsical people put out a parody issue of the Vineyard Gazette ingeniously titled ~ “Not The Vineyard Gazette”. I, collector of all things Vineyard actually have a copy of this on e-ti me parody edition.
One of the articles on the front page is about the discovery of a baby Vineyard named Arthur’s Vineyard after the helicopter pilot who accidentally found it. There were several theories of how the baby Vineyard came to be, one of which was that it was the baby of MV and Nantucket and that a recent rain storm had been the baby shower. So funny.
Another article is, “Oak Bluffs Changes Name to Oaks Bluffs.” Apparently the name change was due in part to the fact that too much time was being taken correcting people who were getting Oak Bluffs name wrong and it was decided to just not fight it anymore. Of course that would never ever ever happen.
Amusing article on Edgartown hiring fashion police. Apparently a glitch in getting the fashion police out on the streets is the inability to agree on a color scheme for their uniforms. Tawny brown and mocha versus cranberry and puce. I would think they’d have trouble recruiting anyone if they had to wear those combinations of colors.
Take your pick of a Vineyard themed movie.
Vine was an actual drink on the Vineyard. It was grape flavored water and it was delicious. I wonder whatever happened to it… I wonder why I didn’t keep a bottle of it, or the label at least. Here’s to the memory of Vine.
Clever real estate ads…or are they un-real estate !
Sadly the one and only edition of ‘Not The Vineyard Gazette’.
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Tagged Aquinnah, beach, boats, Chappaquiddick, crafts, Flying Horses, harbor, Illumination Night, Lighthouses, maps, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Menemsha, New England, Oak Bluffs, Ocean Park, Photographs, sunset, Tabernacle, Vineyard Gazette, water
*** - The Gazette Parody .. CLICK HERE
*** – Memory Correction CLICK HERE – taking the train from NYC to Woods Hole, MA right to the ferry.
*** – Movie Magic CLICK HERE – movies and popcorn and dancing in the street on MV in the 1950’s
*** – A Shearing CLICK HERE – shearing day on the Vineyard 2008
*** - Saved By The Bell CLICK HERE – summer Bible school at the Tabernacle and the mis-adventures of ringing the bell.
*** – Memories of the Flying Horses CLICK HERE – how I spent my summer evenings as a kid and why I’ll never forget a certain ticket taker.
*** – Barnegat Lighthouse, New Jersey CLICK HERE - 217 steps to the top, or was it !
*** – I Can Bake CLICK HERE – my first venture into baking from scratch
*** – The Vineyard In Stitches CLICK HERE – recreating Martha’s Vineyard one stitch at a time
*** – Thomas Edison Installment #2 CLICK HERE – it took 3 installments to cover my visit to the amazing Edison’s laboratories in West Orange, NJ
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Tagged architecture, baking, Flying Horses, history, inventions, Lighthouses, Martha's Vineyard, New Jersey, New York, Photographs, sheep, Tabernacle, Thomas Edison, Vineyard Gazette, wool/yarn
Long ago and far away in the year 1984, a staff of very clever, creative and whimsical people put out a parody issue of the Vineyard Gazette ingeniously titled ~ “Not The Vineyard Gazette”. I, collector of all things Vineyard actually have a copy of this one-time parody edition.
One of the articles on the front page is about the discovery of a baby Vineyard named Arthur’s Vineyard, which was named after the helicopter pilot who accidentally found it. There were several theories of how the baby Vineyard came to be, one of which was that it was the baby of MV and Nantucket and that a recent rain storm had been the baby shower. So funny.
Another article on the front page is “Oak Bluffs Changes Name to Oaks Bluffs.” Apparently the name change was due in part to the fact that too much time was being taken correcting people who were getting Oak Bluffs wrong and it was decided to just not fight it anymore. Of course that would never ever ever happen.
An amusing article about Edgartown hiring fashion police. Apparently a glitch in getting the fashion police out on the streets is the inability to agree on a color scheme for their uniforms. Tawny brown and mocha versus cranberry and puce. I would think they’d have trouble recruiting anyone if they had to wear those combinations of colors.
Take your pick of a Vineyard themed movie.
This was an actual drink on the Vineyard. It was grape flavored water and it was delicious. I wonder whatever happened to it… I wonder why I didn’t keep a bottle of it, or the label at least. Here’s to the memory of Vine… sigh.
Clever real estate ads…or are they un-real estate !
It’s been 30 years, wonder if they’ll ever be another parody edition 
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Tagged humor, Martha's Vineyard, newspapers, Photographs, Vineyard Gazette