My obsession/love affair with Martha’s Vineyard started early in my life. I was around 2 and a half in this picture and this was already my second trip.
My connection to MV was through my mother who although born in Maine was raised on MV. She went to Oak Bluffs high school (each town had its own back then) and after graduating moved to NJ where she met my father and quickly converted him into an MV lover.
We stayed with my godparents in Oak Bluffs every year. Life on MV was so different from Newark, NJ where I spent the other part of my existence. My mother and I would take the train from NY to Woods Hole in June, my dad would arrive for the entire month of August and we’d all sadly leave the beginning of September.
My summers were filled with trips to the beach in Oak Bluffs… endless rides on the Flying Horses… ice cream at the Frosty Cottage on Circuit Ave… popcorn at Darling’s… fairs and parades… at least one trip to Gay Head (Aquinnah)… visiting relatives in Indian Hill… movies… setting pins at the bowling alley in Oak Bluffs… endless hours at the Oak Bluffs library… Bible school at the Tabernacle… Illumination Night… and one especially painful memory of my first and only dance lesson at the Tivoli ballroom where the Oak Bluffs police department now stands.
These are just a few snippets of memories and stories I’d like to share. Hope whoever reads them finds them as enjoyable as I did experiencing them.
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October 8, 2007 at 1:29 am
--Deb
Awww…
October 8, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Patty
You were soooo adorable!! And I bet you still are! ; )
October 11, 2007 at 2:11 am
Seamond
was so happy to know (which I didn’t before) that you and I probably rubbed elbows at the Oak Bluffs library. I used to go over there when done with piano lessons - my teacher lived next door to it - and also when visiting Kelly’s 2nd Hand Shop, and then later when I was in high school as I had about read out the VH library. I also went as often as I could to the one in Edgartown as it was even better than the other two. My best memory of the Edgartown library was that they had the full set of Oz books and I read every one. How I wish I had that set today. I’d read them again. L. Frank Baum to me was the best kid’s author ever. Wouldn’t it been funny if we had met there, talked about something that later on we would have remembered and then thought, “How in the world had this happened that all these years later we meet again on the internet.” I am so glad we have, no matter how or when or why. Kismet.
May 31, 2008 at 1:30 pm
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