Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626196230
Martha's Vineyard has a rich musical legacy. Vineyarders embrace all things musical, from choral and string ensembles to singers and songwriters. This book tells a melodious history from the early twentieth-century up to the present, exploring the homegrown music scene and the summer stars who keep islanders and visitors moving to the beat
Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1625851561
Martha's Vineyard has a rich musical legacy that stretches back to the earliest drumbeats of the Wampanoags and the whaling chanteys of the nineteenth century. Returning Civil War veterans formed the island's oldest continuous music ensemble, the Vineyard Haven Band. Vineyarders embrace all things musical, from choral and string ensembles to singers and songwriters. Discover this melodious history from the early twentieth-century dance bands at the Tivoli ballroom, through the war years, the piano bars and the nascent folk music scene at the Mooncusser Cafe, where Carly Simon and James Taylor played their first licks. Authors Thomas Dresser and Jerry Muskin explore the homegrown music scene and the summer stars who keep islanders and visitors moving to the beat.
Author : Emma Brodie
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593318625
"A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, alive with music, sex, and fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk, for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six"--
Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1614239304
Generations of women have traveled to Martha's Vineyard to find solace in its calming waves and varied shoreline. Many prominent and capable women set down roots, contributing to the fabric of the community on the island. Learn of the brilliant poet Nancy Luce, who lived in isolation with her chickens. Emily Post, whose name is synonymous with good manners, sought respite from her personal struggles on the Vineyard. Famed horticulturalist Polly Hill left a perennial legacy for islanders with her tranquil arboretum. In the twentieth century, novelist Dorothy West captured the beauty of Martha's Vineyard with her work. Historian Thomas Dresser provides a series of biographical sketches of these extraordinary women who were bound by their love of the island.
Author : Bekah Brunstetter
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573706875
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.
Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1480339679
(Piano Solo Songbook). Ace arranger David Pearl presents 20 contemporary pop classics as if they had been composed by the classical masters. This fun yet challenging collection includes piano solo arrangements of hits such as "Overjoyed" by Stevie Wonder presented as if Bach had composed it; "Somebody to Love" by Queen in the style of Beethoven; Meat Loaf's "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" presented in Mozart's inimitable style; The Beatles' "Michelle" a la Ravel; and many more!
Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1625859031
Martha's Vineyard became an integral part of the whaling industry at the beginning of the eighteenth century and inspired a lasting romantic enthusiasm for life on the open ocean. From shorewhaling to daring voyages into the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the insular whaling community offered a tempting path for many young Vineyarders to rise from cabin boy to captain. Local businesses were enticed by the potential profit from whaling voyages, and many reaped generous rewards from successful whale oil harvests. Through memoirs, music and memorabilia, author Thomas Dresser recounts this dramatic history of the bygone era of whaling on Martha's Vineyard.
Author : Craig Mathieson
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Alternative rock music
ISBN : 9781865084121
A juicy look at the Australian music scene in the nineties: the decade when indie became mainstream.
Author : Carly Simon
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780689812378
Two brothers join a fantastical nighttime musical celebration by the plants and animals on their farm on Martha's Vineyard.
Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 143966028X
Celebrated local historian Thomas Dresser unearths the little-known stories that laid the foundations for the community of Martha's Vineyard. Behind the mansions and presidential vacations of Martha's Vineyard hide the lost stories and forgotten events of small-town America. What was the island's role in the Underground Railroad? Why do chickens festoon Nancy Luce's grave? And how did the people of the Vineyard react in 1923 when the rum running ship John Dwight sank with the island's supply of liquor aboard? Delve deep below the surface of history to discover the origin and meaning of local place names and the significance of beloved landmarks.
