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Article: Vineyard is wealthy playground
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2003
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"This place is cute," I thought, moments after driving off the
ferry in Vineyard Haven. "Cute, cute, cute."
That first-glance assessment stayed valid through my visit to the
Massachusetts island called Martha's Vineyard last fall, though I
immediately began adding adjectives: historic, interesting,
complicated.
Martha's Vineyard is an expensive getaway, a handsome haven for
the rich and nearly rich, as pretty as a well-composed postcard, as
quaint as a Disney-designed Main Street.
But beneath its polished surface -- beyond the art galleries and
the exquisitely casual restaurants and the elegant B&Bs -- there's a
year-round resident community, dealing with the changes that heavy
tourism ...