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; . g the eastern side of the Lagoon on Certai- Neck. ... the Indians made their last stand in thisneighborhood. Here lived a group of Christian aborigineswhose weekly prayer meetings were even attended by thewhites and graced with occasional visits from Parson were usually held in the kitchen of Massy Mony. Thosewho recall them dwell on the picture of Basha Mony, whendressed to receive the worshipers. She in
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; . g the eastern side of the Lagoon on Certai- Neck. ... the Indians made their last stand in thisneighborhood. Here lived a group of Christian aborigineswhose weekly prayer meetings were even attended by thewhites and graced with occasional visits from Parson were usually held in the kitchen of Massy Mony. Thosewho recall them dwell on the picture of Basha Mony, whendressed to receive the worshipers. She invariably wore a redcamelot cloak and placed herself before a dresser covered withfreshly polished pewter, where with her bright eyes, jet hair,red cloak and flashing background, she looked like some ori-ental queen on her throne. TAYLOR BRADLEY DIGS is probably no one point from which so much of theLagoon can be comprehended as at Chunks Hill, from the calmof the upper pond to the long reach below. Where the fishingonce on a tim_e was a thing to yarn about, and clams—well, theycome even within the memory of the writer; and that reminds 138 MARTHAS A fore and aft view. me of Taylor Bradley,who dearly loved was somewhatodd—said he came fromConnecticut. That,however, does not nec-essarily make a mianodd, for I am a Con-necticut preparationmyself. He accounted for hisdropping in on theVineyard after this fashion: Being very religious he had dreams and saw one of these he was commanded to go to the seashore andtake a vessel and when the vessel next dropped anchor he wasto land on the beach, and as he walked he would come to ahouse v/here were several girls, all of whom, with one excep-tion, would make fun of him, and that one exception he wasto take to wife, and so it fell out even as he had been promisedin the vision. Whether the vision got down to such definitedetails as Mr. B. furnished after it all happened does not ap-pear of r
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