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; . ally made thehead of the harbor, as has been proposed. 140 MARTHAS VINEYARD. VINEYARD HAVEN TO PROSPECT HILL. THE STATE ROAD OUT OF VINEYARD now we come to an extremely attractive part of theisland to geologists, the North Shore, one of the most interest-ing spots in New England. But which, to quote the New Bed-ford Standard, has not as yet come into its own. The State Road out of Vineyard Haven immediatelypl
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; . ally made thehead of the harbor, as has been proposed. 140 MARTHAS VINEYARD. VINEYARD HAVEN TO PROSPECT HILL. THE STATE ROAD OUT OF VINEYARD now we come to an extremely attractive part of theisland to geologists, the North Shore, one of the most interest-ing spots in New England. But which, to quote the New Bed-ford Standard, has not as yet come into its own. The State Road out of Vineyard Haven immediatelyplunges into the woods, an oak woods, always beautiful,whether it be in the Spring with its budding leaves of delicatepink and soft green, or under the canopy of Summers full leaf,or the rich, dull reds of Fall. This stretch lends a variety to the drive that no otherpart of the island quitegives, and then there areso many little enticing by-ways leading off into thecool, leafy depths, and thecurious tree trunks thathere and there line theway, trees that long agowere hacked and bent tohelp out the wayside fenc-ing and have never recov-ered from their stoop-shouldered As llie twig was bent. VINEYARD HAVEN TO PROSPECT HILL. 141 TASHMOO. Traveling thus we come suddenly on Tashmoo the beauti-ful, awed into silent admiration of the picture, a picture whichincludes the roiling land of the golf links, the wooded shoresof the lake, the Sound and the distant Cape. From here Vine-yard Haven receives its good and abundant supply of water, anever failing spring that long ago fitted itself into Indianlegend and story, for it has been handed down how Pohoganot,the old Sachem who once ruled over the sand dunes of Squib-nocket, gave to his son Tashmoo this distant portion of hisdomain, and how Tashmoo, whose mother, Quampeechee, wasa seeress possessed of the gift of knowing things, was told bythe old lady of beautiful springs of pure water which wouldmark the end of his journey, and given
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