New Gazette Exhibit Tells a 175-Year-Old Community Story
If you placed a single edition of every Vineyard Gazette on top of each other, going back to its first publication date of May 14, 1846, the huge tower would stretch upwards of 100 feet.To save space, Anna Barber, curator of a new exhibit about the Gazette opening Saturday at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, created a sample tower just 12 feet high. But the visual helps tell the story in a tangible way of a newspaper that has spanned centuries, never missing a weekly print run.Tomorrow’s History: 175 Years of the Vineyard Gazette runs through Oct. 24. It tells the continuing story of a community newspaper that began its life under publisher Edgar Marchant reprinting stories about other places culled from newspapers around the country. Eventually, the newspaper turned its focus to Martha’s Vineyard itself, covering its people from birth to death, its issues from controversial to heartwarming, and its culture from a relatively unknown idyll off the coast of Massachusetts to a destination kn...