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Police in New Haven last month arrested Smiley, a resident of the Martha??s Vineyard town of Chilmark, after he allegedly dropped a razor blade on the floor of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The police later found seven maps, worth $900,000, in Smiley’s possession. The British Library in London, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and the Boston Public Library have also reported missing materials...
While seventeenth-century records attest to Iacoomes’ academic prowess—he impressed then-Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop in a 1663 Latin oral examination—he was shipwrecked off the coast of Nantucket as he returned to Cambridge from Martha??s Vineyard. He died sometime in the summer of 1665—before Commencement, which in the seventeenth century took place at the end of the summer...
...Joel Iacoomes, a native of Martha??s Vineyard, was studying Latin grammar at a preparatory school in Roxbury...
...have [Iacoomes’] name attached to something of this sort would be an excellent tribute to his memory,” said Durwood Vanderhoop, a member of the tribal council of the present-day Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on Martha??s Vineyard...
...death of her younger brother, John F. Kennedy Jr.—with whom she was extremely close—in 1999 after his plane went down off the coast of Martha??s Vineyard, devastated Caroline...