The Island has had its share of colorful names. There was Major Pain, the Chilmark lawyer who fought unsuccessfully to move our county seat out of Edgartown; Mayor Blood, who gave us the name “Cottage City”; and Captain Pound, the pirate who plagued Holmes Hole Harbor. There was Harry Legg, the Helenian carpenter; Dr. Lynch, […]
Wikipedia’s entry for Henry Strong Huntington Jr. (1882-1981) curiously gives as one of its references my book “Henry Knox and the Revolutionary War Trail in Western Massachusetts” (McFarland, 2012).