The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . Metkodist Tabernacle, to the Cottage City of the present day whosedwellings occupy the same spots upon thecamp ground that were covered by their tentsforty, or even fifty years ago. Grace Chapel,in Trinity Park, now stands upon the very spotonce occupied by Father Taylors Bethel those days getting to camp-meeting wasnot the simple and easy matter that it is at thepresent time. In the early days the partiescame in vessels to points opposite the shore ofwhat is now Eastville, over against VineyardHaven ; or, sometimes their crafts
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . Metkodist Tabernacle, to the Cottage City of the present day whosedwellings occupy the same spots upon thecamp ground that were covered by their tentsforty, or even fifty years ago. Grace Chapel,in Trinity Park, now stands upon the very spotonce occupied by Father Taylors Bethel those days getting to camp-meeting wasnot the simple and easy matter that it is at thepresent time. In the early days the partiescame in vessels to points opposite the shore ofwhat is now Eastville, over against VineyardHaven ; or, sometimes their crafts were an-chored near the shore where now stands the 142 Marthas Interior Methodist Tabernacle. Oak Bluffs and Highland wharves. The pas-sengers were brought to the shore on rafts,and when the rafts struck the ground in thesurf lines stalwart fellows waded off from thesands and carried the women and childrenashore on their backs, or in their arms, per-forming the same service for men whendesired. Of course, there was a good deal ofnervousness about such performances, andludicrous or exciting events were not few ox teams constituted the sole transpor-tation services of the neighborhood. For many years after the establishment ofthis camp meeting not a building raised its MARTHAS VINEYARD. 143
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