Word: chappaquidick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...island's shores. (Unlike its tiny, cramped neighbor Nantucket, the Vineyard has more than one real town.) Visitors to Edgartown will enjoy the shops and restaurants which line the town's main street, and the adventurous traveler can take a ferry across Katama Bay to the "island" of Chappaquidick to see the site of Edward M. Kennedy's '54-'56 infamous accident and perhaps the ruin of his Presidential hopes. But the island is much more than a collection of tourist-trap towns...
When he came back home, he made himself a millionaire in the restaurant business. He's not a lawyer or a banker. There's no Chappaquidick, no Silverado Savings and Loan, no Anita Hill. He did let Debra Winger sleep over at the mansion when he was governor and drive around in state cars (certainly a bad judgment call), but Nebraskans didn't say much--they thought she was cool...