Vineyard Gazette

Something more than death has happened, or, rather, a different kind of death. There is no survivor, there is no future, there is no life to be recreated in the form again. We are looking upon the uttermost finality which can be written, glimpsing the darkness which will not know another ray of light. We are in touch with the reality of extinction. Vineyard Gazette, editorial lamenting the passing of the last heath hen , 1933.