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...President stayed in Edgartown, the third of the six towns which lie scattered around the 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...
...stay at school for spring break and get sick of Cambridge, there's a great place you can go far away from Boston without using a car--the elbow-shaped island of Nantucket...
Take the Red Line to South Station and from there catch a Plymouth and Brockton bus to Hyannis, summer retreat of the Kennedy family. From Hyannis, ride on the Steamship Authority's ferry to Nantucket. All this costs just $50, and it only takes four hours to get there...
...want to skip the ferry, you can fly from Hyannis for around $50 on one of a handful of small airlines which service Nantucket. Round-trip flights from Boston are also available at a significantly higher price...
...Nantucket, which sits off Cape Cod a few miles beyond Martha's Vineyard (its would-be rival), is a great place for students trips during spring break. Because it's not the island's peak season yet, prices for food and lodging are relatively inexpensive. (They're a ripoff in the summertime...