From the June 27, 1986 edition of the Vineyard Gazette:

They had an old-fashioned hearth-warming party at Tom’s Neck farm on Chappaquiddick on Sunday afternoon. It was a gathering of relatives and old Island friends. They lit a fire.

It wasn’t the first time someone has kindled a fire in recent months on a wide brick hearth in the old farmhouse. Edgartown mason Dudley Levick did it, but as he says: “For me, lighting a fire is like when a mechanic starts a car.”

This was different: this was a fire to celebrate.