With Martha's Vineyard on one side and the open sea on the other, it makes an excellent trip of about three hours.

* SS City of Columbus, a passenger steamer that sailed from Boston to Savannah and sank off Martha's Vineyard

This explains why an island a bit bigger than Martha's Vineyard has mountains approaching.

The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Cape and Islands District, which includes all of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket except the towns of Bourne, Falmouth, Sandwich and a portion of Barnstable.

* 1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

He made few public appearances, preferring to spend winters in Los Angeles, and summers either at his Martha's Vineyard farm or at Verney Farms in New York.

As a young man, Cagney became interested in farming – sparked by a soil conservation lecture he had attended – and during his first walkout from Warners, he found a farm in Martha's Vineyard ; owning a farm had long been a dream of his.

He also allowed the Army to practice maneuvers at his Martha's Vineyard farm.

* In 2008, the LOGO television series Noah's Arc released its first major movie, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, wherein two African-American men get married in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

* In 2011, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, and Angela Bassett star in the film Jumping the Broom, wherein two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

He recently bought a 18 million EUR house on Martha's Vineyard.

* John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed when Kennedy's private plane crashes off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in July 1999.

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The Gay Head cliffs in Martha's Vineyard consist almost entirely of clay.

The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Cape and Islands District, which includes all of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket except the towns of Bourne, Falmouth, Sandwich and a portion of Barnstable.

* 2004: Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright

" Classic " Canadian raising, affecting both the and diphthongs, is quite common in New England ( including in the traditional accent of Martha's Vineyard ), and also occurs in parts of the upper Midwest.

Other examples are the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate which is designated by a " Presenting Partners " group from within the community ; the Poet Laureate chosen by the League of Minnesota Poets ; the Northhampton Poet Laureate chosen by the Northhampton Arts Council, and the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate chosen by ten judges representing the Martha's Vineyard Poetry Society.

Martha's Vineyard ( Wampanoag: ) is an island ( including the smaller Chappaquiddick Island ) located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for being an affluent summer colony.

The Vineyard was also home to one of the earliest known deaf communities in the United States ; consequently, a special sign language, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( MVSL ), developed on the island.

Martha's Vineyard is primarily known as a summer colony, and is accessible only by boat and by air.

Mixed marriages between deaf and hearing spouses comprised 65 % of all deaf marriages on the island in the late 19th century, ( higher than the mainland average of 20 %) and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( MVSL ) was commonly used by hearing residents as well as deaf ones until the middle of the 20th century.

* Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

( See Martha's Vineyard Sign Language.

* Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( MVSL ) was a village sign language once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, U. S., from the early 18th century to the year 1952.

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language is also notable for the role it played in the development of American Sign Language.

By the 18th century there was a distinct Chilmark Sign Language, which was later ( 19th century ) influenced by French Sign Language, forming Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( 19th and 20th centuries ).

Another example is the legendarily high deaf population of Martha's Vineyard, which resulted in the development of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language.

As settlers of the Martha's Vineyard communities of Tisbury and Chilmark migrated from the Kentish Weald, Nora Groce speculates that OKSL may be the origin of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, which is in turn one of the precursors of American Sign Language ( ASL ).

Home sign also played a part in the formation of American Sign Language, which is a blend of home sign, Old French Sign Language, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language and Plains Indian Sign Language.

Thus, given the fact that all heath hen specimens from known localities studied by Johnson and Dunn are Martha's Vineyard birds – where the population may never have exceeded several thousand due to the limited space and limited genetic exchange with the mainland – it is possible that the low genetic diversity and apparent distinctness of the Heath Hen are an artifact of the small number of useful specimens, all from the same close-knit population.

This may explain why few L. A. bands played in Boston in the early 1980s, a notable exception being Black Flag, who played a show at Paradise Rock Club on Halloween 1981, which was attended by only twelve people, including John Belushi, who had driven up from Martha's Vineyard just to attend.

Wines produced from grapes grown on the two islands can be sold with labels that carry the Martha's Vineyard AVA designation.

Edgartown is located at the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard ( referred to as " down-island ", a vestige of the island's traditional maritime manner of speaking in that as a ship travels east, it is said to be traveling " down east " as longitude decreases towards the Prime Meridian ).

The town was officially incorporated in 1892, the last town on Martha's Vineyard to be incorporated.

Residents planted bulbs into a garden that was to be named " Martha's Garden.

The apparent distinctness of the species and the failure of the early introductions raises the question of whether the Heath Hen was uniquely ( by comparison with its relatives ) adapted to the more oceanic climate of its former area of occurrence, and in consequence, whether a future attempt to establish a population of the western birds on Martha's Vineyard could be bound to fail, possibly even by competing for funding and other resources jeopardizing the extant but much declined populations of the prairie-chickens.

Though it is often claimed to be the third largest island on the eastern seaboard of the United States, it is actually second behind Long Island ( and ahead of Martha's Vineyard ).

The ancestry of most of the deaf population of Martha's Vineyard can be traced back to a forested area in the south of England known as the Weald — specifically the part of the Weald in the county of Kent.

John and Martha's marriage contract provided that Susanna and Betty were to remain the property of Martha Eppes and her heirs forever, or be returned to the Eppes family should there be no heirs.

Years later, somehow Martha's wish to be able to join him in his small size comes true, and now possessing the same shrinking powers, she becomes his partner as " Doll Girl " in Doll Man # 37.

For Lionel, Martha seemed to be more attainable now ; Glover believes that what Lionel was seeking to attain was not based on some lustful attraction, but Martha's " goodness ".

* Victor Kilian, Grandpa Raymond Larkin, Martha's father, who was eventually revealed to be the " Fernwood Flasher ".

Bragoon and Sarobando arrive at the Abbey during the Summer festival and are told Martha's sad story and where the cure can be found.

Just as Martha's relationship with Lina seems to be improving, a setback occurs when she forgets to pick the girl up from school while helping Lea get to the hospital to deliver her baby.

She also reiterated her belief that it would be to tough at the time of Martha's downward spiral for them to work together, but if Martha is to get through her troubles and have a happy ending, that it would be with Jack.

Martha's great aunt Morag Bellingham ( Cornelia Frances ) submits the theory that Sam committed suicide and made it look like murder, which is revealed to be true and Jack and Martha are exonerated.

It should be noted, however, that by the final episode, Jim never finds out about the contents of the North Wing of Martha's Boarding House, or that his father, Alfred ( presumed dead since Jim was a child ), was the sender of the mysterious fax that first sent him to Push, Nevada.