Word: nantucketers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vineyard, the protection provided by Nantucket Sound seems less significant each year. More and more people come for the first time to the Island who do not know what is and isn't done there. Islanders are making less of an effort to tell them. They are putting up signs and passing town by-laws instead...
Services for Bishop will be held tomorrow at St. Paul's Church, Nantucket...
...district court in Nantucket, Mass., the average punishment for driving an auto in a manner to endanger the lives and safety of the public is a $50 to $100 fine. The late Senator Robert Kennedy's son Joseph, 20, who was so charged (TIME, Aug. 27) and convicted, received a $100 fine, a suspended license and an admonition from Justice C. George Anastos: "I would hope you would use your illustrious name as an example that could be an asset to the young people of your age, instead of becoming involved in cases that bring you into court...
...knocked down by a bull calf in Spain; he has broken his leg while playing football and again while skiing; he has been skyjacked by Arab terrorists on an airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which ended in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne). As Joe drove his open Jeep along winding Polpis Road through the island's sparsely populated interior one afternoon, the vehicle skidded...
When he filed his bill last year, Kennedy promised to modify the measure on the basis of reactions from the 12,000 permanent and 33,000 seasonal residents of the Nantucket Sound Islands. The reactions were bitterly divided. The Vineyard's permanent residents did not want to relinquish home rule, and 60% of them voted against the bill in a referendum last fall. Summer people, who pay property taxes but do not vote, would be given a share in administering the trust, and they generally favored the bill as the best way to preserve the islands' natural qualities...