Oral historian Linsey Lee here collects the conversations of long-time residents of Martha's Vineyard -- a sea-swept island seven miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They are farmers, fishermen, boat builders and summer people; they live in fierce harmony with the land, the sea and each other. Their stories -- recollections of a hundred years of island life -- are of shipwrecks, race relations, ice cutting, rum running, and one-room schoolhouses. The Vineyard today is a fast-changing place. A way of life that has continued for generations is disappearing. These stories remind us of what is special about the place.

Vineyard Voices: Word, Faces & Voices of Island People

History

Linsey Lee

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Martha's Vineyard Historical Society

"Working in a number of genres across a career that spanned more than fifty years, Martha's Vineyard artist Stanley Murphy painted the Island with the exacting eye of a seasoned craftsman and the magical soul of a poet. ""Where Magic Wears a Red Hat: The Art of Stanley Murphy"" focuses on the artist's Island portraits, with thirty-six color plates of his paintings and drawings dating from the 1950s through the early years of the new century."

Where Magic Wears a Red Hat: The Art of Stanley Murphy (Martha's Vineyard Museum)

Marling, Karal

Americas

<p>Inspired by the actual diary of an ancestor of the author who, as a Loyalist,was living in Newport, Rhode Island, occupied by the British in 1778, this is the account of the intertwining of two families - one American and one British - who come together first in time of war and then, over the next two hundred and twenty years, meet again.</p>

The Ghost of the Grasshopper, The Seagirt Saga of Two Families

THOMAS, HALE

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