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...Taxation without representation!" Once again that shrill cry was heard from rebellious New Englanders as some of the residents of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard voted last week to secede from Massachusetts-and sported secession bumper stickers. They were protesting a redistricting plan under which Martha's Vineyard would lose the seat that it has had in the state legislature for 285 years (TIME, March 21). In the unlikely event the islands cast themselves off, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island have offered to take them under their banner. Meanwhile, some of the summer crowd are lobbying...
...begins what some irate residents of Martha's Vineyard (winter population: 8,000), an island off Massachusetts, say could well be their new national anthem. Anthem? A band of rebellious islanders, among them Selectman John Alley, a West Tisbury storekeeper, and Newspaperman George Adams, are preparing for independence: a flag has been designed, proposals for gambling casinos are circulating, and applications have been submitted for ambassadorial posts...
...mock rebellion is a protest against a redistricting plan under which Martha's Vineyard will lose the seat that it has had in the Massachusetts legislature for 285 years. The islanders are distressed at the prospect of finding themselves, in the words of one angry writer to the Vineyard Gazette, "in the horrendous clutches of Taxachusetts" without representation. Rebels point out that civic anger on Martha's Vineyard is not to be lightly taken. The last time the island was denied direct representation was in 1692, when it belonged to New York; Vineyarders promptly seceded and joined Massachusetts...
...town's teetering credit rating. As municipal bond sales and mortgages became increasingly difficult to negotiate, race relations in the town, which is one-third Indian, showed signs of strain. Things seemed even bleaker when the residents of Gay Head, Mass., a town across the Sound on Martha's Vineyard, voted to give all of their public land to another Wampanoag group, rather than risk a protracted court battle...
...small changes that in retrospect loom large in the heart. Like the time, at the close of Prohibition, when Hallowell's restaurant in Edgartown got a liquor license and went to hell, gastronomically speaking. Or the introduction of offset printing in place of the old linotype at the Vineyard Gazette. At the time Hough, somewhat uneasily, one suspects, tried to see it all as progress. He quotes Carlyle: "He who first shortened the labor of copyists by the device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates." Today he mourns the "three-em dashes...