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“Life is the sum of your choices.” —Albert Camus Choices. There are too many sometimes, right? Some of us are better than others at making them. Those of us who are lucky enough to have choices should think about the ones we are making. Martha’s Vineyard Museum is a place we can go to get […]
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” Decades after he wrote them, these words of poet e.e. cummings ring true. Seeds are planted in our childhood that set us on a path, and one day, if we’re lucky, we look around at what has been growing in our garden, weed […]
Clifton Hillman Athearn, a native son of West Tisbury, died on Dec. 12, 2023, at his home in West Tisbury. He was born about a half-mile from there in 1923, the youngest of four children, including Elmer (Mike), Leonard, and Louise. The farmhouse he was born in, now the home of Simon and Robyn Athearn, […]
The English settled Martha’s Vineyard from the outside in; early colonial settlements clustered around natural harbors and mill-powering streams, mostly near the periphery of the Island. The dry interior — that scrubby triangle formed by the highways connecting Vineyard Haven, West Tisbury, and Edgartown — remained virtually uninhabited for centuries. Modern inland developments like those […]
In 1785, Benjamin and Lydia Mayhew of Chilmark had a deaf son named Benjamin. Later, they had four more deaf children. By 1824, three other Chilmark households — the Smiths, Luces, and Tiltons — would also have deaf children. Though Martha’s Vineyard had a well-established deaf community in the 18th century, these parents reported that […]