The Chappy Ferry Book: Back and Forth Between Two Worlds -- 527 Feet Apart - Softcover

Dunlop, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984913602 ISBN 13: 9780984913602

Publisher: Vineyard Stories, 2012

Synopsis

The Chappaquiddick ferry on the island of Martha's Vineyard has for more than 200 years been carrying cars between the Vineyard and Chappaquiddick, 527 feet away. It is the oldest waterfront business on the island, and has been witness to pretty much everything that has happened over these two centuries -- including the filming of Jaws, the accident on Chappaquiddick that changed political life forever, the change in the Vineyard from a whaling community to a tourist resort. This is a fun, well illustrated book about that is unique in American history. The book includes a 15-minute DVD narrated by Dick Ebersol, former president of NBC sports.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Dunlop is the author of two books previously published byVineyard Stories: Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard (2010) and Morning Glory Farm and the FamilyThat Feeds an Island (2009). He is a former editor of, and current contributing writer to, Martha's Vineyard Magazine.Tom first recalls seeing the Chappy ferry when he was four and has wanted to write this book ever since.

From the Inside Flap

The story of the Chappaquiddick ferry, which travels only 527 feet between two islands, is a history that is nestled into the lifeblood of Martha'sVineyard as vital as the whaling era that left behind Edgartown's beautiful captain's houses.It is the oldest business on the waters of the Vineyard and has always been at the heart of the waterfront that helped define Edgartown as a fishing, whaling, and recreational center. Its brief trek across the harbor from the big Vineyard to tiny Chappaquiddick has been continually marked by drama and hijinks. Its twelve owners and captains have shown a passion for their work that continues today.The Chappy Ferry Book tells an amazing, dramatic, myth-busting, two-hundred- year-old story for the very first time. It is filled with historic photos, many previously unpublished, as well as beautiful present-day images from the Island's premier photographer. It was written by a man who says he fell in love with the ferry when he was four years old.And what you don't read in the book, you'll see in The Chappy Ferry Movie, a short film on DVD that celebrates, among other things, the success of the one-minute conversation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vineyard Stories
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984913602
• ISBN 13: 9780984913602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127