A few things from the Martha's Vineyard Garden Club archives...
The First MVGC Meeting held at the Old Mill is heralded in the Gazette's news...from 1938
West Tisbury’s Old Mill Reopened by Club
Conservation
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Martha's Vineyard Garden Club
Vineyard Gazette
Friday, July 1, 1938 - 1:59pm
The structure on the Old Mill River, West Tisbury, had its second birthday on Tuesday. And this seems strange, for the building, staunch as the day it was built, and preceded on the site by other buildings devoted to the same purpose it fulfilled so long, has a long and honorable history. And yet Tuesday was actually its second birthday, for how else can one describe the rebirth of the Old Mill, restored to life if not to industry through the efforts of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club, which in saving the ancient landmark from impending ruin, also provided itself with a home of its own.
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Conservation
Mills
Martha's Vineyard Garden Club
Vineyard Gazette
Friday, July 1, 1938 - 1:59pm
The structure on the Old Mill River, West Tisbury, had its second birthday on Tuesday. And this seems strange, for the building, staunch as the day it was built, and preceded on the site by other buildings devoted to the same purpose it fulfilled so long, has a long and honorable history. And yet Tuesday was actually its second birthday, for how else can one describe the rebirth of the Old Mill, restored to life if not to industry through the efforts of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club, which in saving the ancient landmark from impending ruin, also provided itself with a home of its own.
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Here's a current Facebook post that one of our members contributed. It highlights the words of one of the
Garden Club's past speakers.... 
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Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club Conservation Martha's Vineyard Garden Club Vineyard Gazette Friday, August 21, 1925 - 2:10pm At the invitation of its vice president, Mrs. William M. Butler, the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club met at her summer home, “Mohu”, on August 12th. A very large attendance was most gratifying, as Edward G. Harrington, secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, gave a very interesting lecture on the Arnold Arboretum, illustrated with colored lantern slides, of the more interesting trees, shrubs and flowers in the arboretum, at the same time giving a comprehensive and illuminating idea of the work and its importance in the horticultural world. As several members said afterwards, “We had no idea there was such a wonderful place!” Click here to continue reading Article on the MVGC Club Meeting from
The Vineyard Gazette 
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