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My Trip to Martha’s Vineyard
I have a credit card that gives airline frequent-flier miles. In July, I received an offer for an all-expenses-paid tour of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. Neither I nor my wife had ever been there, so we combined it with visiting my mom in New Hampshire. On September 9, we went on a whale-watching cruise from Provincetown. Here are two pictures I took of a Humpback whale called Freckles.
On September 10, we took the ferry to beautiful Martha’s Vineyard. It’s hard for riffraff to get to the island, but somehow Ken Burns and Caroline Kennedy live there. We visited Edgartown, where Kennedy gave his Chappaquiddick speech with the neck brace. It’s a very short boat ride between the two islands. Here are a few pictures from the migrant non-sanctuary.
We were on a 15-person bus touring the island. There were certain public roads we were not allowed to traverse. When you’re a sanctuary island, it’s vital that you keep the public out. Given that many of the houses are only occupied part of the year, they could easily house thousands of illegals. And I’m sure that they’d leave the houses spotless. Why should the border towns of Texas have all the fun?
Published in Immigration
Racist.
“This is a big country. The idea we can’t accommodate more people in the interests of the United States, and by the way… guess what? They’re the reason why – the illegal and as well as undocumented – are the reason why our society is functioning. The reason why our economy is growing. We don’t talk about that. We stand up and act like it’s a burden, it is not a burden, it is a gift.” – FJB
How rude of MV to refuse to accept such a precious gift.
“Yes. This is a better arrangement, comrades. More just.”
In another century when the open border spigot overwhelms even the enclaves of the lovely ones on MV, descendants of the recent 50 people temporarily excluded from MV will be likely harpooning descendants of Freckles.
You comment is by definition true since everything is racist.
Do you think it will take that long? Interest on federal debt soon to be the largest item in the budget. The money spigot soon to be off.
I thought de Santis was just trying ro solve the servant problem on Martha’s Vineyard.
From a parody Twitter account
I did a tour of Martha’s Vineyard last summer. Although I spend a lot of time on the Cape, I had not been to the island since I was a child.
A couple things I noticed, you don’t say Gay Head anymore. Now you have to use the Indian name, which is probably better. Less giggles from the kids.
They still talk endlessly about Jaws. Fun film, but hasn’t anything else happened over the past 45 years?
According to the tour guide, Clinton was really friendly (Bill, obviously), but Obama has the secret service keep people far away from him.
I wonder if they won’t erect a miniature Statue of Liberty in honor of the 36 hours they spent dealing with illegal immigrants. It would be a good way to give the tour guides another non-Jaws topic.
This works, I think.
I’m surprised James Taylor didn’t play for the migrants. He lives in Martha’s Vineyard.
He doesn’t know the lyrics to La Cucaracha.
Diversify Martha’s Vineyard! Bring Equity to America’s Most Exclusive Enclave!
Apparently there has been a secret addition to The US Bill Of Rights that stipulates that no US citizenry who is not living in a town or city or region considered to be a “border town” should ever have to lay eyes on newly arrived immigrants.
San Francisco – despite being 7 & 1/2 hour drive from the southern border – is a border town.
So is Brownsville Tx, Naco Az, and hundreds of other places.
Clearly Martha’s Village is not a border town. The officials in that luxury town are well aware of the provisions of the secret addition to the US Bill Of Rights.
I’m related to about half the permanent residents of Nantucket, not the rich ones, the other ones. My grandmother worked as a housekeeper all her life. When my mother was a child they would go to the neighbors home to take a bath. We don’t have anything to do with “those” people on the Vineyard. :)
The library where I used to read all the Wizard of Oz books when we went there in the summers was where Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists used to give speeches. It’s an idyllic place. I don’t know if Nantucket is a sanctuary city, I don’t follow their politics, it’s where I go to escape that stuff.
The Vineyard was always more like Falmouth in terms of its wealth. It was known mostly for its Christian camp–there were partner camps in Craigsville and West Yarmouth on the Cape Cod mainland. It had some wealthy homes, as Falmouth had, but for the most part it was solidly middle- and lower-income people. The money that has moved there in recent years is new money.
It has never been a wealthy enclave like Nantucket.
It’s strange to see the Vineyard being described in the press as a wealthy place. Perhaps it is now, but if so, that’s a change.
What I also find funny about the whole story is that the Vineyard has a thriving tourism–“day trippers”–economy. The islanders are used to greeting and managing thousands of tourists–strangers–every single day. I can’t imagine why fifty people threw them for a loop.
The only thing I can think is that the islanders are used to getting the day trippers off the island by the end of the day. They are very practiced and systematic about it. Sort of the way Disney World clears out their parks at closing time. So fifty stranded day trippers after the last Falmouth-bound ferries departed may have unsettled them. :-)
Yes – that McMansion of Obama’s – the big roof could make so many little roofs…..I think that’s a line from a movie. Great pictures – they seem to have a Great White threatening the beaches every year.
Interesting. Nantucket is more known for its historical Quaker population, though I don’t think many are left. There was great wealth made there from whaling, by families still widely known today: Macy, Chase, etc.
What made Nantucket a wealthy tourist destination was that the whaling industry shut down rather suddenly, and the wealthy families left their homes there intact, which made the island a historical frozen-in-time treasure:
It was the Steamship Authority in the 1960s that turned Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard into the tourist attractions they are today.
Yep. It’s grown a lot since I was a kid but still no stop lights.
Philbrick is magnificent. I recommend everything he’s written, whether I’ve read it or not.
Before Obama’s house on the island, I was working on the well at Oak Bluffs. It required 3-4 trips with a two hour drive to get to the ferry in Falmouth at 6:30am. The first ferry trip is all workers. The rest of the day is all tourists.
Sometimes the cell service was great, sometimes it was terrible. I complained to a local. He said that they always increase the power when a Kennedy is on the island then cut it down when they leave.
Personally the cape and the islands are a terrible place to live. There are only two bridges to the cape. Once there all you have is expensive motels, soft-serv ice cream, and fried food. I need to be paid to go anywhere near there.
His son was in our briefly lived youth orchestra. I knew his parents very well. Wonderful family. A great writer. :-)
I live here. I love it. :-) But I can certainly understand why others would not. :-)
It’s just not for me. I need tall trees and few people. Are you on the cape or the Vineyard? I now feel obligated to say something nice. Well I have to say, the marina in Harwich makes amazing truffle fries, and the seafood restaurant across from the ferry in Hyannis is really good too.
The trees are short here. :-) There’s a long story as to why that is. :-)
I’m in the mid-Cape area, not on the islands. :-)
No worries. It isn’t for everyone. :-)