Martha’s Vineyard
The first of two democratic presidents to be elected this century, he spends his summers in a mansion on the vineyard.
Who is Barack Obama?
It’s the variation of poker that your mother would have been horrified to find you playing when you were in high school!
What is Strip Poker?
She plays Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.”
Who is Judy Garland?
She is considered one of the most important American poets and is called the “Belle of Amherst” despite only published a few poems in her lifetime
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Filmed on the vineyard in 1974, many kids were too scared to swim in the water because of it.
What is Jaws?
What is Gin Rummy?
What is Kansas?
His real name was Samuel Clemens. He wrote adventure books for children and made his home in Hartford, Connecticut.
Who is Mark Twain?
It’s a ride at the circus, and Martha’s Vineyard has the oldest operating one in the world!
What is a carousel?
It is the legal age for betting at a casino in Massachsetts.
What is 21?
Who is Toto?
One of Louisa May Alcott’s “little women” — the high spirited sister — she grew up to be a writer just like her creator.
Who is Jo Marsh?
It is the town less than 100 miles away from the Vineyard that my sources tell me Bill and Cheryll used to spend time in.
What is Provincetown?
It’s the card game that Rockridge offers every Monday at 11.
What is Acey Duecy
Desperately wanting a brain, he followed Dorothy down the yellow brick road.
Who is the scarecrow?
Author of Beloved and Song of Solomon, this American author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Who is Toni Morrison?
They are the tribe that originally inhabited the vineyard, calling it Noepe, or “land amid the streams.”
What are the Wampanoag people?
He was the author of the books that were eventually adapted into the Wizard of Oz movies.
Who is Frank L. Baum?
He lived in France to escape the racism of 1950’s American and wrote many acclaimed books, including Giovanni’s Room and The Fire Next Time.
Who is James Baldwin?