Martha's Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties
Martha's Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties

Author: Thomas Dresser

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-05-22

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467152668

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The Roaring Twenties were filled with a range of events, experiences, fears, laws and advances that impacted Martha's Vineyard. Island residents were involved in rumrunning. Dozens died of the Spanish Flu. Women voted on Island. Dorothy West joined the Harlem Renaissance. Immigration from the Azores slowed, and airplanes landed in Katama. Tourism blossomed and business boomed. Local author Thomas Dresser shares the back story and the import of this remarkable decade and how it has shaped Vineyarders.

Whaling on Martha's Vineyard
Whaling on Martha's Vineyard

Author: Thomas Dresser

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1625859031

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Martha's Vineyard became an integral part of the whaling industry at the beginning of the eighteenth century and inspired a lasting romantic enthusiasm for life on the open ocean. From shorewhaling to daring voyages into the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the insular whaling community offered a tempting path for many young Vineyarders to rise from cabin boy to captain. Local businesses were enticed by the potential profit from whaling voyages, and many reaped generous rewards from successful whale oil harvests. Through memoirs, music and memorabilia, author Thomas Dresser recounts this dramatic history of the bygone era of whaling on Martha's Vineyard.

Ghosts of Martha's Vineyard
Ghosts of Martha's Vineyard

Author: Tom Dresser

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1467146463

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-168) and index.

Hidden History of Martha's Vineyard
Hidden History of Martha's Vineyard

Author: Thomas Dresser

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 143966028X

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Celebrated local historian Thomas Dresser unearths the little-known stories that laid the foundations for the community of Martha's Vineyard. Behind the mansions and presidential vacations of Martha's Vineyard hide the lost stories and forgotten events of small-town America. What was the island's role in the Underground Railroad? Why do chickens festoon Nancy Luce's grave? And how did the people of the Vineyard react in 1923 when the rum running ship John Dwight sank with the island's supply of liquor aboard? Delve deep below the surface of history to discover the origin and meaning of local place names and the significance of beloved landmarks.

Women of Martha's Vineyard
Women of Martha's Vineyard

Author: Thomas Dresser

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1614239304

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Generations of women have traveled to Martha's Vineyard to find solace in its calming waves and varied shoreline. Many prominent and capable women set down roots, contributing to the fabric of the community on the island. Learn of the brilliant poet Nancy Luce, who lived in isolation with her chickens. Emily Post, whose name is synonymous with good manners, sought respite from her personal struggles on the Vineyard. Famed horticulturalist Polly Hill left a perennial legacy for islanders with her tranquil arboretum. In the twentieth century, novelist Dorothy West captured the beauty of Martha's Vineyard with her work. Historian Thomas Dresser provides a series of biographical sketches of these extraordinary women who were bound by their love of the island.

Disaster Off Martha's Vineyard
Disaster Off Martha's Vineyard

Author: Thomas Dresser

Publisher: Disaster

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609495107

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With its rocky coast and treacherous shoals, shipwrecks were a common occurrence in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Few claimed as many lives as the City of Columbus. The night was clear and the route familiar for Captain Schuyler Wright and his experienced crew as they sailed a ship equipped with the latest technology. Yet with all this, the City of Columbus went down with 103 souls. Over a century later, Eric Takakjian and the Quest Marine Services team located the wreckage of the City of Columbus on the north ledge of the Devil's Bridge, off the southern tip of Gay Head. Historian Thomas Dresser takes us into the icy waters of the Atlantic as he recounts the terrible chain of events that led to disaster on that fateful night.

The Wampanoag Tribe of Martha's Vineyard
The Wampanoag Tribe of Martha's Vineyard

Author: Tom Dresser

Publisher: American Heritage

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609491864

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The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah are an indigenous people on Martha's Vineyard. From their legendary giant leader Moshup, Wampanoags can trace their ancestry back more than ten thousand years. The tribe weathered colonization by missionaries in the 1600s, then endured two centuries of domination, only to have their land taken in 1870. However, over the past 140 years, the Wampanoag Tribe, which still lives in its ancestral home of Aquinnah, has shown endurance and fortitude as it continues to practice traditional crafts and its tribal heritage. Thomas Dresser captures the spirit of the tribe, tracing its survival through to recognition by the federal government in 1987, nearly twenty-five years ago. Brief interviews with elders and current tribal members offer insight into the tribe's remarkable history.

Martha's Vineyard in World War II
Martha's Vineyard in World War II

Author: Thomas Dresser

Publisher: Military

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781626193727

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The small island of Martha's Vineyard was transformed by World War II. Pilots flew training missions from the island's Naval Auxiliary Air Facility; ferryboats served as hospital ships in the D-Day invasion, and enemy submarines lurked offshore.

Hidden History of Martha's Vineyard
Hidden History of Martha's Vineyard

Author: Thomas Dresser

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 146713595X

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Celebrated local historian Thomas Dresser unearths the little-known stories that laid the foundations for the community of Martha's Vineyard. Behind the mansions and presidential vacations of Martha's Vineyard hide the lost stories and forgotten events of small-town America. What was the island's role in the Underground Railroad? Why do chickens festoon Nancy Luce's grave? And how did the people of the Vineyard react in 1923 when the rum running ship John Dwight sank with the island's supply of liquor aboard? Delve deep below the surface of history to discover the origin and meaning of local place names and the significance of beloved landmarks.