Civil War

2011

June 30, 2011
Hackney

Battlefield Lines Are Gray and Blue

Mark Alan Lovewell
Civil War

The horror of the Civil War was the graphic and powerful subject of the 1989 Academy Award-winning film Glory, screened at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Monday night. The event kicked off the Civil War Film Series, jointly sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society and the Martha’s Vineyard Museum to commemorate the country’s most deadly war through movies, talks and exhibitions. The museum recently launched an exhibit titled We Are Marching Along: Martha’s Vineyard and the Civil War which continues until April 2012.

June 9, 2011
McFeely

River Queen Ferry Provides Link Between Civil War and Vineyard

Peter Brannen
Civil War

Pulitzer prize-winning historian William McFeely set the mood for the rapt crowd at the library of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Tuesday. They had gathered to learn about the role that one Vineyard ship played at the close of the Civil War.

April 21, 2011
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Our War Stories: Seven Score, Ten Years Ago

Peter Brannen
Civil War

When the Civil War began> a century and a half ago the Vineyard was decidedly pro-Union, but ever since there has remained one prominent Vineyarder whose allegiance to The Cause has been suspect. He greets many thousands of visitors yearly from his Ocean Park pedestal and his original foot will be on display next Saturday when the Martha’s Vineyard Museum unveils its exhibit We Are Marching Along: Martha’s Vineyard and the Civil War.

2009

July 30, 2009
Seen the Glory

Civil War Drama Glories in Details Of Battles Too Close to Island Home

Tom Dresser
Book reviews
Civil War

SEEN THE GLORY: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg. By John Hough, Jr. Simon & Schuster, June, 2009. 420 pages. $25.

July 2, 2009
obelisk

Civil War Memorial Gets a New Shine Amid Cannonballs in Edgartown Park

Mark Alan Lovewell
Civil War

Patriotism, Vineyard history and the meaning of the Fourth of July holiday remain vibrant at Memorial Park in Edgartown. The one-and-one-half acre park has never looked finer. The Civil War-era cannons and cannonballs, the whaling-era trypot and other aging features of the park were just recently repainted.

Tomorrow is the 108th birthday of the dedication of the park and the unveiling of a tall bronze obelisk, a tribute to the service of veterans, men and women, who served in the Civil War, a war that was felt deeply by the residents of the Vineyard.

2008

July 21, 2008

Civil War Diaries of Island Boy: Museum to Launch Charlie Mac

Tom Dunlop
Civil War

Twelve years ago, Marian Halperin of Vineyard Haven began reading and copying the private journal of someone she didn’t know. Then she read and copied the letters he wrote far from home and the account book his father kept on the Island while he was away.

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