If you’ve never been there, don’t bother. Any small town in New England with ocean access will do just as well. MV is an outlandishly overrated place. I’ve been there three times but never again.
It was a purposed development that never happened. Kinda like New London of the Kelo seized land fame.
In 2010, the Yale Design Workshop, at the request of the city, created plans for a large development that included restaurants, a hotel, offices, art galleries, bicycle lanes, water taxis, a pedestrian bridge to downtown, and more with the use of “private, local, state, and federal funds.” The project never came to fruition.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370441/nine-years-after-kelo-seized-land-empty-alec-torres
Bartholomew Gosnold had two daughters named Martha. One died before she reached her first year. But, that’s not who he named it after.
The island was named after Martha Judd, his mother-in-law. She, along with her husband Robert Golding, helped finance his voyage to America.
Where’s the movement to return Martha’s Vineyard to the Wampanoags, or their descendants?
“How Did Marth’s Vineyard Get it’s Name?”
By somebody dropping the “a” from “Martha” would be my guess.
It's mine.
GTFO!
My old boss has a house on MV. He said that all the liberals go to MV, all the Republicans go to Nantucket.
