According to text in the official Vineyard Statement of Faith released in 1994, an effort to create a common Statement of Faith had been underway since 1983, but took 10 + years to complete because: " On one hand, we felt obliged to set forth our biblical and historically orthodox beliefs, on the other hand, we wanted to describe the values and priorities that make the Vineyard unique within the context of Evangelicalism.

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.

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.

" 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.

Vineyard in the Rue Saint-Vincent ; the day of the Feast of gardens, 15 days after harvest. There is a small vineyard in the Rue Saint-Vincent, which continues the tradition of wine production in the Île de France ; it yields about 500 litres per year.

On the left bank is Denbies Vineyard, the largest vineyard in the UK On the right bank is Box Hill, owned by the National Trust and Britain's first Country Park.

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.

Often called just " The Vineyard ," the island has a land area of and is the 58th largest island in the United States, and the third largest on the East Coast of the United States.

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

A study by the Martha's Vineyard Commission found that the cost of living on the island is 60 percent higher than the national average and housing prices are 96 percent higher.

No one knows who the namesake of the island is, but some suppose that since Gosnold's mother-in-law and his second child, who died in infancy, were both named Martha, Gosnold perhaps named Martha's Vineyard after his daughter, who was christened in St James ' Church ( now St Edmundsbury Cathedral ), Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England.

There is still a substantial Wampanoag population on the Vineyard, mainly located in the town of Aquinnah.

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

Martha's Vineyard is made up of six towns.

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

Martha's Vineyard is located approximately seven miles off the southern coast of Cape Cod.

Bus service is provided on the island year-round by the Martha's Vineyard Transit Authority.

Martha's Vineyard is served by Martha's Vineyard Public Schools:

Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, which is located in Oak Bluffs, serves the entire island.

Martha's Vineyard has also been or is home to a number of artists and musicians, including Evan Dando, Tim " Johnny Vegas " Burton of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Livingston Taylor, Ben Taylor, Huey Taylor ( musician / hotelier ), Kate Taylor, Alex Taylor, Tom Rush, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Willy Mason, Unbusted, Mike Nichols, Gordon Healy, Kahoots, Slim-Bob Berosh and Timo Elliott.

The Academy Award winning Patricia Neal owned a home on South Water St in Edgartown, and James Cagney, Lillian Hellman ( who is buried in Abel's Hill Cemetery near the site of Belushi's grave ), and Katherine Cornell all found the Vineyard an exciting, rewarding place to live.

Lower Makonikey has more year-round residents, and is considered one of the more desirable neighborhoods in Vineyard Haven, as the houses and lots tend to be larger than usual for that town, combined with waterviews and beach access ( this is generally true of the neighborhoods in Vineyard Haven between Lamberts Cove Road and the Vineyard Sound, Northern Pines, Pilot Hill, and Lower Makonikey )

In 1977, distressed over losing their guaranteed seat in the Massachusetts General Court, inhabitants of Martha's Vineyard considered the possibility of secession from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, either to become part of another state ( having received offers from both Vermont and Hawai ' i ), reincorporating as a separate U. S. territory, or as the nation's 51st state.

The church also has published a 10-point " Vineyard Genetic Code ," taught to a session of senior leadership by John Wimber in 1992, that outlines the 10 areas of ministry considered essential to any Vineyard church.

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

Despite popular perceptions of the Vineyard as " Hollywood East ", the island is very low-key and quiet ; celebrities go to the Vineyard to enjoy the atmosphere, and not to be seen.

Parts of the Skinner Vineyard and Winery from the early 1860s can be seen at the intersection of Green Valley Road and Cameron Park Drive.

An aerial photograph depicting the Ramona Valley Viticultural Area may be viewed at the Ramona Valley Vineyard Association's website.

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 of Edgartown includes the smaller island of Chappaquiddick, sometimes connected to the rest of Martha ' a Vineyard only by a barrier beach which can be breached during storms.

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

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.

From the exhbition, van Gogh sells The Red Vineyard to Anna Boch, said to be the only sale of his work during his lifetime.

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 ).

An early use appears to be from Gordon Fee's kingdom theology course at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the 1970s, which helped inspire the Vineyard Movement.

" Jennifer Vineyard, a writer of My Life as Liz, said " Daria made it cool to be a smart chick.

" Vineyard added, " Just the presence of people or characters like Daria help make it cool to be yourself.

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.

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language may be descended from a hypothesized sign language of that area in the 16th century, now referred to as Old Kent Sign Language.

The Vineyard & Winery are owned and operated by Bob and Marilyn Thaden of Miles City and may be seen at www. tongueriverwinery. com or on Facebook at " Tongue River Winery ".

Sitting on the veranda of The Sala Wine Bar & Bistro at Hua Hins Hills Vineyard, one could be forgiven for thinking they were actually somewhere other than Thailand.

The album included a mix of classic hymns and songs originally written to be used for worship at the Malibu Vineyard Church where he was a worship leader at the time.

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 ).