Edgartown - Hardcover

Riper, A Bowdoin Van; The Martha's Vineyard Museum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1540233421 ISBN 13: 9781540233424

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2018

Synopsis

Founded in 1642 as Great Harbor, Edgartown is the oldest of Martha's Vineyard's six townships. It has been a shire town and a center of learning, a whaling port and a fishing village, a manufacturing center and a mecca for sportsmen. Its gleaming captain's houses and majestic public buildings are a testament to the wealth that whaling brought to the island in the mid-1800s, but the end of New England whaling was far from the end of its story. Faced with the loss of the industry that had sustained it, Edgartown reinvented itself as a summer-centered community of resort hotels, bathing beaches, and genteel vacation homes. It welcomed the world to its shores and became an unlikely cultural icon--a backdrop to a best-selling memoir, a political scandal, and a blockbuster film--famous for being its inimitable self.

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Review

"This book is a trove of information and insights, perhaps best enjoyed by people with a sense of the Island and its historical family names, and those who want to know how we got to be as we are." Martha's Vineyard Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1540233421
• ISBN 13: 9781540233424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 130