Article: SUN, SAND, AND STARS CELEBRITIES MAKE THE SUMMER CROWD PART OF THE ISLAND'S EASY APPEAL CLOSE-UP ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD

CLOSE-UP ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD

MARTHA'S VINEYARD

- POPULATION 14,901 year-round residents

- WEBSITE mvy.com

- DISTANCE FROM BOSTON 75 miles to Woods Hole, then a 45-minute ferry ride to the Vineyard

- ODD FACT Actor John Belushi is buried at Abel's Hill Cemetery in Chilmark. His gravestone reads: "I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on."

Here's a toast to all those people who save their visit to the Vineyard until after Labor Day to avoid the crowds. You're one less person to annoy Spike Lee when he picks up his morning coffee at Mocha Mott's, one less person for Bill Clinton to hit with his golf ball as tries to break 80 at Farm Neck Golf Club, one less person for Carly Simon and the ...

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