The Roaring Twenties with Thomas Dresser

Saturday, July 1 at 4:00: Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties: Radicals and Rascals with Thomas Dresser.

The Roaring Twenties were filled with a range of events, experiences, fears, laws and advances that affected Martha’s Vineyard.  Island residents were involved in rumrunning.  Dozens died of the Spanish flu.  Women voted on Island.  Dorothy West joined the Harlem Renaissance.  Immigration from the Azores slowed, and airplanes landed in Katama.  Tourism blossomed and business boomed.  Local author Thomas Dresser shares the back story and the import of this remarkable decade and how it has shaped Vineyarders to this day.

Tom drove school and tour buses on Martha’s Vineyard for a number of years.  Now he writes books on Vineyard history.  Martha’s Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties is his 15th book, and one of the most exciting to research and write.

Email tthorpe@clamsnet.org for more information.

Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. 508-645-3360