Edgartown EPUB
by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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Founded in 1642 as Great Harbor, Edgartown is the oldest of Martha's Vineyard's six townships.
It has been a shire town and a center of learning, a whaling port and a fishing village, a manufacturing center and a mecca for sportsmen.
Its gleaming captain's houses and majestic public buildings are a testament to the wealth that whaling brought to the island in the mid-1800s, but the end of New England whaling was far from the end of its story.
Faced with the loss of the industry that had sustained it, Edgartown reinvented itself as a summer-centered community of resort hotels, bathing beaches, and genteel vacation homes.
It welcomed the world to its shores and became an unlikely cultural icon--a backdrop to a best-selling memoir, a political scandal, and a blockbuster film--famous for being its inimitable self.
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- Publisher:Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Publication Date:07/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781439664247
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Publication Date:07/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781439664247