Vineyard Confidential
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
Tales of woeful mismatches in the Vineyard social scene.
It may have started as far back as two thousand years ago when, let’s just say hypothetically, a Wampanoag sachem invited tribesmen to share roasted beached whale around the campfire. Later an assistant-sachem might have taken the honcho host aside and berated him, “Didn’t you know one of your tribesmen resented another tribesman for planting corn too close to his ancestor’s burial mound?” To which the sachem might have responded with the Wampanoag equivalent of “Yikes!” Another for-real sketchy Vineyard dinner, this one taking place in 1874, was organized by a Methodist minister in honor of sitting prez Ulysses S. Grant. Famously fond of brandy, Ulysses S. was aghast to find himself in the midst of a strenuously abstemious church society…
Tina
2:34 am on Wednesday, March 27, 2013
I am a new Patch subscriber and former resident of all six Island towns. Oak Bluffs was my favorite, especially during the years when I lived on Circus Avenue (a/k/a Cirrhosis Avenue). Your Patch columns are a treat! Are you no longer writing the Oak Bluffs news for the Gazette? more ›