McLoud

By McLoud

Martha's Vineyard Coastguard

A cheerful group of five coastguards came ashore to refuel their boat.

The island was named after an Englishman who arrived around 1602. Either his mother or daughter was called Martha and the island was over run with wild grapes.

Another Wikipedia fact:

A high rate of hereditary deafness was documented in Martha's Vineyard for almost two centuries. The island's deaf heritage cannot be traced to one common ancestor and is thought to have originated in the Weald, a region in the English county of Kent, prior to immigration. Researcher Nora Groce estimates that by the late 19th century, 1 in 155 people on the Vineyard was born deaf (0.7 percent), almost 20 times the estimate for the nation at large (1 in 2,730, or 0.04 percent).[29]

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