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Martha’s Vineyard Through Time: Tourism and the Cleansing Sea
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Martha’s Vineyard Through Time: Tourism and the Cleansing Sea

Author(s): Andrew C. Theokas
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DESCRIPTION
No East Coast summer resort has as intriguing a beginning as that of Martha’s Vineyard. Before it became a tourist mecca, it already had thousands of summer visitors, but visitors who came for salvation, not the sun.

Wesleyan Grove, the site of the most successful campground revivals held anywhere, provided congregants with communal support for their new evangelical lives. The Vineyard Campground, however, also attracted those who sought physical expression in sunshine and sea air more than redemption. Local investors spotted the financial opportunity this presented, leading to the creation of the first town in the entire United States designed and built expressly for tourism.

Photographs representative of this period of early Martha’s Vineyard are herein paired with contemporary ones. There have been changes, but the basic yearnings of summer vacationers remain as they were over 150 years ago.

A previous volume, Martha’s Vineyard Through Time: The Present in the Past , concentrates more on the Island’s architecture than its early commercialization.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Andrew C. Theokas, born and raised in Lowell, has studied urban design at Harvard University and is also the author of Grounds for Review: The Garden Festival in Urban Design.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781634993425
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: America Through Time
DATE: 7/26/2021
STATE: Massachusetts
SERIES: America Through Time
IMAGES: 171
PAGES: 96
DIMENSIONS: 6.5 (w) x 9.25 (h)
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