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Now, 40 years since its founding, The Martha’s Vineyard Times once again doubles down to its news-gathering overwatch on Islanders’ behalf. And once again, although a new crowd is at the controls, the job is the same, and it is a familiar one.  Newspapering is comfortably at home on Martha’s Vineyard. And because Islanders are […]

The North Atlantic Ocean, 250 miles west of Bermuda, October 1841. The whaling brig William and Joseph of Holmes Hole is heading back to the Vineyard with a disappointing haul. “We put away for home with 200 barrels of sperm, and 12 barrels of black-fish oil; low in spirits, for this was a very inadequate […]