As the most recently departed generation of Islanders would have told us, there were no deer on Martha’s Vineyard. “There wasn’t any then,” declared Fanny Jenkinson (1893–1994) of Chilmark to Linsey Lee of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum in 1983. “Never heard of a deer.” Basil Welch of Vineyard Haven told Lee, “I was born and […]
In some respects, we’re all family on the Vineyard. We’re a diverse group, often fiercely independent, but united by the fact that we’ve chosen to live in a place that’s surrounded by water. This is the second in a series of stories that shine a light on various families on the Vineyard, who each in […]
Theophilus Miguel “T. M.” Silvia was born in 1877 on Ilha de São Nicolau, a mountainous island in the Republic of Cabo Verde, the volcanic archipelago nation off the coast of West Africa known to Americans as Cape Verde. Silvia (whose surname many old-timers pronounced “Silvey”) came to the United States as a young man […]
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Island women tell their stories
Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s oral history curator Linsey Lee will present Voices of Vineyard Women this month.
June Manning Linsey Lee
Sissy and Cookie (Pat) Tankard Linsey Lee
Linsey Lee is the oral history curator at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Having conducted interviews with people on the Vineyard for more than 30 years, she has quite a significant collection of remarkable women connected to the Island. Luckily for us, the Chilmark library is hosting a Zoom program where we can watch her video interviews with many of them on Saturday, March 6, at 4 pm.