The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . ual attractive woodland road of this region,clean and solitary, arched with oaks beneath whose branches isspread a variegated carpet of huckleberry and other bushes;when conditions and season are right Indian pipes may beglimpsed among the lower foliage or the brilliant yellow-red ofthe wood lily, but mostly the road is a bower of living, spar-kling green, streaked by the gray-brown of the tree trunks. MAKONIKEY. On th
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . ual attractive woodland road of this region,clean and solitary, arched with oaks beneath whose branches isspread a variegated carpet of huckleberry and other bushes;when conditions and season are right Indian pipes may beglimpsed among the lower foliage or the brilliant yellow-red ofthe wood lily, but mostly the road is a bower of living, spar-kling green, streaked by the gray-brown of the tree trunks. MAKONIKEY. On the way we pass the entrance to that monumental fail-ure, Makonikey, of which many a Vineyarder can truly say, wemourn our loss. This is a sightly spot, the eastern point ofLamberts Cove, where itseems as though a Summercolony should thrive. Hereis found a very fine variety ofclay which, converted intopottery, has disported itselfin shop windows all over theisland, and here is also foundbrown coal, an outcrop oflignite, that at one time wasthought of value. LAMBERTS before we reach theroad to Lamberts Cove beachthe highway crosses Black-water Brook, whose pictur-. Bj-tliis token shall ye kimw VINEYARD HAVEN TO PROSPECT HILL. 145
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