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...need proof that Harvard's influence and reputation really does extend beyond the reaches of your wildest imagination, take the ferry to Martha's Vineyard this weekend (if you didn't make your automobile reservation in February, you'll have to go standby, but if you don't mind waiting until about 2 a.m., you'll get there). When you get off in Vineyard Haven, drive in the direction of Gay Head--up Island--until you get to Chilmark. Don't stop to look for a town, because there isn't one to look for. Just off the main road...
Until, that is, one realizes that Martha's Vineyard is really a very unusual sort of place in terms of the highly limited but highly visible and well-known crowd it attracts. If you graduated from Phillips Andover, Exeter, Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Concord Academy or any New England prep school within the last five years, chances are that you'll run into someone from your eleventh grade English class waiting in line for ice cream in Oak Bluffs...
Unsuspected encounters with Harvard professors are not unheard of either, due to the fact that a large percentage of them own or rent houses on Martha's Vineyard for the summer. The Island is a great place to get sick, as well as one in which to search out a potential thesis advisor. Drive into the parking lot of any beach and you're liable to find more M.D. plates than in the parking lot of Mass. General Hospital...
...flight from Edgartown to Boston any Monday morning and you'll see them being driven to the airport by their madras-clad sons or Lilly Pulitzer-clad wives. If you merely want proof of their existence, venture into the most obscure newspaper shop on the Vineyard and you'll discover they are well-stocked with copies of Barrons and The New York Times. Most stores even post a schedule on the front door of delivery and sold-out times so you'll be sure not to miss out on the latest quotes from Standard and Poors...
...arriving Cousin and Bridesmaid Sydney Lawford McKelvy in the Barnstable airport ladies' room and besieged her with questions as she changed her son's diaper. The mother of the bride was characteristically silent, but she did wave cheerily to onlookers when she arrived from her estate on Martha's Vineyard...