Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock and returns twelve hours later. This train ride takes you 72 miles down through the historical south shore of Massachusetts past Plymouth, across the Cape Cod Canal at Buzzards Bay, and finally to Woods Hole on the southern neck of the Cape, jutting out into Vineyard Sound...
...spare dollar or two, a Sunday for leisure, and a yearning for blue skies and salty ocean breezes? Then you would probably be interested in the Martha's Vineyard-Nantucket inexpensive summer Sunday cruises...
...trip from Woods Hole across the sound to Oak Bluffs on the Vineyard takes roughly three-quarters of an hour. From Oak Bluffs you can branch out to any part of historical Martha's Vineyard. You will have five hours or so before the steamer returns from Nantucket. A bus runs over to Edgartown on the southern end of the island, and to Vineyard Haven and West Chop. You can also cross to the extreme corner of the island to the Indian Reservation at Gay Head. A chat with boat builder Manuel Swartz, whose shop is only a stone...
...trip to Nantucket, 30 miles father out in the Atlantic, costs considerably more and eats up the extra hours that could be spent touring the vineyard. But for the salt-water cruise addict the longer ocean trip is well worth while. Nantucket, like the Vineyard, has escaped the commercialization which has ruined so many other vacation resorts. Here you will find gray-shingled cottages covered with rambler roses, cobble stoned streets, and century-old houses with "widder's walks," where Nantucket wives once climbed to look for the return of the old whaling ships...
Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...