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Other activities include film festivals and over two dozen trips. Tickets for some trips, including those to Martha’s Vineyard and one to Fenway Park for a Boston Red Sox game, have sold out quickly, said Casey M. Daum ’03, activities director of the summer school...
...also a poet and gifted storyteller. Family trips to Martha’s Vineyard prompted Waller to create a series of science fiction stories about fellow ferry passengers from other planets who traveled to the Vineyard disguised as day-trippers...
Collecting maps is a hobby of Knafel’s that goes back about 20 years to a piece of property on Martha’s Vineyard. When Knafel purchased the Martha’s Vineyard property, which contained a small pond, he heard rumor that the pond had at one time been open to the ocean. Interested in finding out if there was truth to this tale, Knafel acquired an old map of the area. The map indeed showed the land with the pond open to the ocean...
Central Otago, at the southern end of the South Island, is New Zealand's fastest-growing wine area?mostly producing Pinots and Rieslings. The Gibbston Valley vineyard sells nearly half of its acclaimed Pinot Noirs to some 125,000 tourists a year, many of whom come to the tasting rooms on day excursions from the nearby adventure sports capital Queenstown. Visitors can tour the vineyard and the cool, concrete-lined cave where wine sits in racked barrels before sitting down to lunch in a shady outdoor restaurant...
Soft-spoken former journalist Alan Brady founded the vineyard in 1987 but soon tired of the endless promoting and tourism. He moved down the road to start again, this time in search of the perfect Pinot Noir. "I really wanted to get back to the reality of wine," he says, his nose deep in a glass of his latest vintage, "which for me is getting tired and dirty at harvest time." He takes a sip and smiles. "Now I am not driven by any market demands?I am producing the wine I want to and the market seems to like...