You come off the Callahan Tunnel at the East Boston exit and you are at Santarpio's Pizza. You don't have to hurry. It's been here since 1903. They put all the toppings under the cheese because it's the tradition.
Also there's the homemade barbecue sausage, lamb and steak skewers served with Italian bread and hot cherry peppers.
Two Bad Cats and The Wizard of Oz houses sit side by side in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. Oz is missing a Follow The Yellow Brick Road panel in a spruce up for the annual Illumination Night in The Camp Meeting Ground.
We were young
We were merry
On a very crowded
Vineyard Ferry
Monday at noon
The line was long
I went too soon
Or the date was wrong.
Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard has a Camp Meeting Ground with many colorful two story Gingerbread houses from the early 20th century. The Oak Bluffs beach is still called The Inkwell. That's the beach where the Black residents swam. President Obama spends his August vacation here in Martha's Vineyard in the predominantly White town called Chilmark. The President always comes over to Oak Bluffs for fish and chips at Nancys where all the Jamaicans work.
Oak Bluffs was traditionally a Black vacation town except for the Methodist Camp Meeting Ground. At first the Methodists used tents for their annual camp meeting. Eventually 100 or more gingerbread houses were built. The owners own the houses but lease the land. They are required to hang up lanterns for the August Ilumination Night. There is an open air Tabernacle building in the center of the meeting grounds. Each year after the band plays and there's a community sing, a signal is given from the tabernacle building and all the houses light up the lanterns. It is a tradition just like the Inkwell.
This Old House survived the War of 1812. The Nimrod as the house is called was hit by a cannonball shot from an English ship off the coast of Falmouth,MA on Cape Cod. The hole is still there.
The Civil War,The Great Depression,and World War I and II didn't destroy the Nimrod. But greedy bankers, mortgage companies, real estate brokers. and developers will in 2013.
This Old House was moved inland in the early 1900's,probably in anticipation of flooding from future global warming. The Historical Society says knock it down.
We the former customers of the Nimrod when it was a restaurant and fabulous piano bar say: Save it and the Odd Fellows House next to City Hall too.
