Martha’s Vineyard vs. Norsemen supposedly spotted the isle in the 11th The Wampanoag inhabited the island until about 1602, when English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold sailed to < Year founded > Often referred to simply as “The Vineyard,” locals and Sometimes called “The Grey Lady” because of the < Nickname > to “America,” which sits across the water). Off season, Nantucket’s population is a round 10,000. < Population swell > number jumps up to about 75,000. Even if you don’t do The Vineyard, you’ve surely spotted (and might even Clichéd but < necessary clothing > < Historic American > < Fabled author > Chop Cemetery on Vineyard Haven. < All-American rep > yard for vacations in the summer. High-powered < political wife > house known as Red Gate Farm. palette, owns a home on ACK. Teresa Heinz and her husband, Senator John Kerry, own a home near and her husband, Frank, enjoy their The Nantucket Film Festival has < Hollywood star > Lee is known to vacation on The Rock. honored the screenwriter Judd Apatow for his work on flicks like Superbad. Jaws took place on “Amity Island,” toric harborside town on The Vineyard. line is famous for its American-flag summer home on Nantucket. Though he didn’t direct the movie which was actually Edgartown, a his- Moby Dick, without ever having visited. Kathie Lee Gifford, of NBC’s “Today,” < Morning-show host > own Chip Chop, a white-frame house. The Rock, film writer and director Spike Melville made Nantucket famous in the Brant Point Lighthouse. Former ABC morning host Diane Sawyer and her husband, Mike Nichols, mother, was born on Nantucket. Her Tommy Hilfiger, whose clothing Meg Ryan, American as apple pie, the privacy of her gray saltbox-style now J. Crew makes them easy to get). Nineteenth-century writer Herman Twentieth-century writer William Styron Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis relished et Reds,” which fade to pink (though birthsite is known as “The Bench.” tage of Bishop Gilbert Haven. is known to frequent Martha’s Vine- Murray’s Toggery Shop sells “Nantuck- Abiah Folger, Benjamin Franklin’s Ulysses S. Grant even vacationed lived here. He is buried in the West In season, temperatures mount and the number swells to about 50,000. own) a T-shirt from The Black Dog. here, staying at the gingerbread cot- almost perpetual fog, Nantucket is also warmly called “ACK,” the three-letter denomination for its airport. The larger of the two islands, Martha’s Vineyard has a regular population of 15,000. Come summer, that century, but the English deeded it to Thomas Mayhew, of Martha’s Vineyard, in 1641. the New World. The Brits claimed it by 1641. summer regulars also call it “The Rock” (as opposed Nantucket Manhattanite Mrs. X tries to save < Movie set > her marriage with a family vacay on Nantucket in The Nanny Diaries.

July 2010