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Hugh Jacobsen, architect, on the publicity surrounding his latest project, a spacious home on Martha's Vineyard for Jackie Onassis: "Even the plumber has held press conferences to display his bathroom plans...
...with an other man's wife, that's literature. If the subject is the opening up of half of our country, that's not. It's absurd. Those guys seem to write just to excite each other up there on Martha's Vineyard...
William Styron Vineyard Haven, Mass...
...coast people, a slender volume titled The Thin Edge, published in 1978 by Environmentalist Anne W. Simon, 66, is something of a bible. The book is an expansion of Simon's earlier No Island Is an Island, which dealt with the environmental ordeal of Martha's Vineyard, the island off Massachusetts on which she summers. In Edge, she writes: "In the last ten years, the coast's magnetic pull has become stronger than ever-more industry, more oil, more people, hotels, motels, boatels, more sewage, more waste. The coast is informing us that there is a saturation...
...chuckles and recalls when he began writing Helen and Teacher about three years ago. His seven-year-old granddaughter had come to Martha's Vineyard to visit him and when she learned of his latest project, she announced that she "knew all about Helen Keller." He asked her why. "Our teacher read us a book about Helen Keller," she responded. Lash says his granddaughter--and others like her--remember the story of Helen Keller because she ranks among a number of select historical figures that people can identify with. "It's very easy to understand why," he says. "Here...