The Last Farm on Chappaquiddick [first edition]

The other island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has for almost 80 years occupied and fascinated Edo Potter. With her two sisters, Edo worked from May to late September on the truck farm their father started on Chappaquiddick in the 1930s and explored on foot and on horseback every inch of an island where there were no footprints on the beaches but their own. This is a book for anyone who has stood on Memorial Wharf in the old whaling village of Edgartown and watched the On Time ferries ply the channel to what's locally known as Chappy and wondered what goes on over there. It is a book for anyone who values the history of a place that is out of step with modern times -- by choice -- despite assaults of growth and change that threaten it every day. And it is a wonderful and gentle story of a life lived in an unusual place by an unusual family.