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; . in breadth in the course of 8d or 90years, A tradition is said to exist that 100 years ago it was possibleto skate from Tisbury Pond to Edgartown village along theline of connected bays that are now separated into individualponds, but the map of 1782 does not support such tradition,and it may be that the tradition goes back 200 years. ?^-^^^^^ Foniiei- homo of Deacou p4|^ ^^^H| Simon Mayliew wlio was 16 ^s^^mm years tu
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; . in breadth in the course of 8d or 90years, A tradition is said to exist that 100 years ago it was possibleto skate from Tisbury Pond to Edgartown village along theline of connected bays that are now separated into individualponds, but the map of 1782 does not support such tradition,and it may be that the tradition goes back 200 years. ?^-^^^^^ Foniiei- homo of Deacou p4|^ ^^^H| Simon Mayliew wlio was 16 ^s^^mm years tutor at Harvard. E^^ several years a preacher ofthe gospel, a memher of theContinental Congress, amiat tlie time of his deatli,March 31, 1782. ChiefJudge in the County of ^^^^^w WW ^^ Dukes County. Known aa the Herman Vincent House, Cliilmaik. CHILMARK VILLAGE. Chilmark village was formerly known as Beetle Bung Cor-ners for here grew hornbeam trees the wood of which wasturned into beetles. One of the most prominent features asone approaches the village is Sugarloaf Rock, which is thechief diadem of a stone wall circlet that crowns a nearby hilltop. 192 MARTHAS Mosliojis Ued au<l pillows. Oiiginally the pillows lay on tlie bed as they were placed when the glacier maile it u](. MOSHOPS BED AND of the most pe-culiar of the largerocks on the island isknown as the Devilsbed and pillows, toreach which from thevillage we take theNorth Road back a halfmile or so, and afterpassing the first houseon the west or north,ascending a brief hiliand dipping down to the bottom of the next hollow we stop at a pair of bars on the left and climb these and the hill straight up to a stone wall that looms overhead, so stiff is the upness- of the hill. And just over this wall do we find the Old Boys resting place with the pillows on the ground at its heao and the bolster ly-ing off by its side. The odd combina-tion of the flat rock i IBtL^Xk , nn BPUJ yiipi^^^fci^ ? a****? ?- g
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