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Title: The tourist’s guide to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: [Boston] J. F. Murphy
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ntirely, in pronouncing it. Castle Band-Box is suggestive of a bundle of fun.Sunny Side apparently the property of a haleand hearty lover of dame natures best mo-ments, deserves its name. In the Paradise,we expect, are scenes of comfort and enjoy-ment that places this house among one of theseventh heavens. The Parsonage, it isquite evident, results from some worthy youngman, who, knowing that parsons were conspic-uous by their absence, worthily erected thisstructure as a momento of the reverend gen-tlemen. K. K. or Kauphin Kottage,portrays truly the coffins that buried Kings andEmperors before the advent of Adam and Eve.It is a common saying about Sconset thatgay young Lotharios may find many hearts towoo in abundance and while there is no inten-tion of the town to constitute themselves asmessengers to Cupid, the fact neverthelessremains that fair maidens abound in greatnumbers, whose only pastime is in the com-position of billetdoux to some sweetheart in afar away land. 80 NANTUCKET.
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Atlantic House, Siasconset. Thus man is not to be despised. He is, infact, a veritable prize, and who says not awinner! Informal entertainments are given at fre-quent intervals by the young element in com-mand and here the terpischorean art is easilyexemplified, for what young man can resistthe temptation to manifest his most equableglide wherever the battlefield may be, to hisfair partner. The cool refreshing atmosphere augmentshis gracefulness and if he should make a sue- NANTUCKET. 81 cessful debut it is truly owing to the effects ofSconset ozone. The town has two commodious hotels, theAtlantic and the Ocean View. They are with-in a short distance of fine surf bathing, wherethe broad beach makes an attractive and saferesort for children. It required nearly the passing of two centu-ries to give Sconset the honor of a post vil-lage. For many moons the only means ofreceiving mail was thrqugh the agency of theNantucket post office, which would send suchoccasional mail matter as arrived
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