Martha's Vineyard
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Outer Lands | |
| Geographical location | 41 ° 24 ′ N , 70 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| length | 33 km | |
| surface | 231.75 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Peaked Hill 95 m |
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| Residents | 14,729 (2000) 64 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Edgartown | |
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Martha's Vineyard is a 231.75 km² island off the south coast of Cape Cod in the US state of Massachusetts . Originally the island was an area of the Wampanoag Indians; in their Wampanoag language they called the island Noepe or Land under the Rivers . Martha's Vineyard includes six of the seven parishes in Dukes County (Aquinnah, Chilmark, Edgartown , Oak Bluffs , Tisbury, West Tisbury). The municipality of Chilmark also includes the uninhabited island of Nomans Land (2,477 km²) further south . Martha's Vineyard has a total of around 15,000 residents.
The name-defining vineyards are assigned to the designation of origin Martha's Vineyard AVA .
history
native people
At the western end of the island is the village of Gay Head (Aquinnah), where Wampanoag still live today. Here is the Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead , a house built in the 1890s for the family of Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop (1848-1923). Today it serves as a cultural center and a museum for tribal history under the name Aquinnah Cultural Center .
According to the 2000 census, 36.63% of 344 residents identified themselves as Native American . This is where the tribal council of the Wampanoag of Gay Head, which has 1121 registered members (in 2013), has its seat. This group is also involved in a project to revive the Wampanoag language , as part of which lessons in the language are given in Aquinnah .
Deaf
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Martha's Vineyard was home to one of the first known deaf communities . Due to their isolation, they developed a special dialect of sign language , Martha's Vineyards Sign Language . While around 0.015% of the population is deaf in other areas of the United States, there was temporarily around 0.7% deaf on Martha's Vineyard. In the meantime, the proportion of deaf people has adjusted to that of the rest of the USA.
tourism
More recently, Martha's Vineyard has been visited by more than 100,000 tourists annually during the summer months and on July 4th, the US National Day. Even Barack Obama's family spent during his presidency almost all summer holidays on the island. Many other personalities and members of the American upper class own villas on Martha's Vineyard, which earned the island the reputation of a posh resort. There is also a large bird park on Martha's Vineyard as the main tourist attraction.
Misfortunes
The largest shipwreck in the region to date occurred on January 18, 1884, when the American liner City of Columbus ran onto the Devil's Bridge reef on the southwestern tip of the island and sank. Of the 132 people on board, 29 survived.
On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. , the son of former US President John F. Kennedy , as well as his wife and sister-in-law, died when the plane he was piloting crashed into the sea in poor weather conditions not far from Martha's Vineyard.
The capital Edgartown includes the island of Chappaquiddick , immediately to the east , known from Senator Edward Kennedy's car accident on July 18, 1969, in which his companion Mary Jo Kopechne died.
Movies and Culture
The island was the backdrop of the film Jaws world famous 1975th In 1995 several scenes from Sydney Pollack's film Sabrina were shot there. In 2003, she served Stuck again as a film set. It is also the location of the episode A Vineyard Valentine from the television series Gilmore Girls .
The plot of the novel Ghost by Robert Harris , based on the novel Polański's film The Ghostwriter , takes place mainly on Martha's Vineyard; however, the film scenes were shot on the German islands of Usedom and Sylt and the Danish island of Rømø . Likewise, the 1996 television film is set to Farewell to Chase on the island.
On Abel's Hill Cemetery 's grave is of Chilmark John Belushi , star of the movie The Blues Brothers .
The singer Carly Simon gave a concert here in front of a few fans in 1987, which was broadcast by HBO.
Web links
- Go Martha's Vineyard
- Martha's Vineyard Online
- Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce
- Vineyard Gazette homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shelley Rotner: Martha's Vineyard: Homeland of the Wampanoags , GoNomad, 2010.
- ↑ Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head: Tribal Council ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Jessie Little Doe Baird (2013): Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project .
- ^ S. Doane (2012): Wampanoag: Reviving the language (Television news feature). CBS News, New York.
- ↑ Nora Ellen Groce: Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts / USA) 1985, ISBN 0-674-27041-X (English); German translation by Elmar Bott: "Everyone spoke sign language here", Hamburg; Signum Verlag, ISBN 3-927731-02-1
- ↑ http://vineyardgazette.com/president-obama-visits-marthas-vineyard
