martha's vineyard

The story of five generations of an African-American family and the wedding on Martha's Vineyard that could tear them apart.

This book examines how the Wamapanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/English coexistence and the long-term survival of Wamapanoag communities on the island of Martha's Vineyard, even as the racial barrier between peoples grew more rigid. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division.

Sixteen-year-old Cricket Callahan, the daughter of the president of the United States, moves in with retired cop J.W. Jackson and his wife after a threat is made on her life while vacationing at Martha's Vineyard.

Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie.

Presents over twenty stories about ghosts in the Martha's Vineyard area of Massachusetts, all purported to be true, including one involving the 1969 Ted Kennedy/Mary Jo Kopechne auto accident on Chappaquiddick Island.

Ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, enjoying a Vineyard summer with his wife and children, falls under suspicion when rabid environmentalist Henry Highsmith--a man J.W. has clashed with in the past--is found murdered in a golf course sandtrap, and an SUV matching the description of Jackson's vehicle runs Highsmith's bicyclist wife off the road.

Ten-year-old Conor, who has cerebral palsy, spends a summer vacation with his family on Martha's Vineyard in this photographic essay.

Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

The story about a crusty Yankee sea captain and the little black puppy who won his heart, and went on to become a New England legend.