[audiobook] The Funfair (Modern Plays) by Simon Stephens at Arts-Photography

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Generations of women have traveled to Marthas 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 Marthas 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.