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.

On related note, Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate, Lee H. McCormack, has written many poems about the island.

Occasionally in winter storms, waves will wash across low points in the beach, but the beach itself has not been breached in a hundred years, unlike other barrier beaches on Martha's Vineyard.

) Chilmark also has the highest point on Martha's Vineyard, at Peaked Hill.

The town has no direct access to the mainland via ferry or by air ; Martha's Vineyard Airport is in neighboring West Tisbury, and the Woods Hole Ferry is in Vineyard Haven, which is almost twelve miles ( 19 km ) removed from the town center.

Edgartown has the largest area in the entirety of Dukes County and Martha's Vineyard.

The village has a bar called ' Gentle's Cool Spot ', a shop called ' Martha's Shop ' and a Creole drumming school where drumming lessons are available from Emmeth Young.

He has a summer home on Martha's Vineyard.

Big Muddy Creek has also been known as: Big Muddy River, Little Yellow River, Martha River, Martha's River, Marthas River, Marthy's River and Park River.

The Black Dog currently has many locations on Martha's Vineyard and one on the island of Nantucket, as well as in the mainland Massachusetts towns of Falmouth, Mashpee, Provincetown, Newburyport, and Chatham.

Martha's relationship with Lina is tested again when Martha is informed by the school principal that Lina has not been attending school regularly, and when she does come to school, she sleeps in the classroom.

" The New York Times noted that Wright promises, and can deliver, great depths of feeling, while observing that Wright depends very much on our sense of his tone, and on our belief not just that he means what he says but that he has said something new ... this score Walking to Martha's Vineyard sometimes succeeds.

Knowing she has survived Martha's plot, she tells Jackson to ask Martha to make breakfast.

Helen then reveals a bruise she has from Martha's murder attempt, enraging Jackson.

It turns out that Marion has not " eloped " but has instead been living at her aunt Martha's place so as to allow Albert to fall in love with Grace.

Martha's Vineyard is also the setting for Robert Harris ' 2007 novel, the political thriller The Ghost.

Each town is also a member of the Martha's Vineyard Commission, which regulates island-wide building, environmental, and aesthetic concerns.

SeaStreak also runs a ferry service on the weekends from New York City to Martha's Vineyard.

Other popular attractions include the annual Grand Illumination ( see also here ) in Oak Bluffs ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Society which screens independent and world cinema all year long ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival which runs its Summer Film Series and Cinema Circus every Wednesday in July and August, the second week in August, The Run & Shoot Filmworks Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival < http :// www. mvaaff. com > which showcases the works of independent and established African-American filmmakers and its winter festival in March ; Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival in September, Katama Farm in Edgartown ; and the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the oldest carousel in the United States.

* The Wesleyan Grove, also known as the Martha's Vineyard Campgmeeting Association ( MVCMA ) or " The Campgrounds ," including an elaborate collection of over 350 gingerbread cottages which encircle the Methodist Tabernacle that serves as the center point of the community

Many also attribute Atlanta's name to Martha's middle name of Atalanta ; however, there are conflicting accounts which suggest the name Atlanta was derived as the feminine form of Atlantic ( Atlanta being one end of the Western & Atlantic Railroad ) by John Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad.

It is also the site of United States Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England ( formerly USCG Group Woods Hole ), the Nobska Light lighthouse, and the terminus of the Steamship Authority ferry route between Cape Cod and the island of Martha's Vineyard.

Oak Bluffs is also home to Martha's Vineyard Hospital, just northeast of the Lagoon, which serves all of the island, as does the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles branch near the center of town.

West Tisbury is also home to the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School, which offers K-12 education.

In 1759, Martha's dower share included at least 85 slaves ; she also would control any children they had, who became part of the dower.

On August 30, 1995, she also made a rare joint appearance with her ex-husband, James Taylor, for a concert on Martha's Vineyard.

It also describes the conditions in which they live and the customs of whaling villages of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.

The film also won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award, as did her 2003 film Martha's New Coat.

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

Additionally, Hy-Line also runs a catamaran to Martha's Vineyard in season.

In the early ‘ 90s, she also hosted the MTV programs Martha's Greatest Hits, MTV Prime with Martha Quinn, and Rockline.