Author Talk: Tom Dresser's "Martha's Vineyard in the Roaring 20s"

 

[In-person] 6pm Tuesday June 6th
Author Talk: Martha's Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties were filled with a range of events, experiences, fears, laws and advances that impacted 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.

In his latest book, Martha's Vineyard in the Roaring Twenties: Radicals & Rascals, local author Thomas Dresser shares the back story and the import of this remarkable decade and how it has shaped Vineyarders.

Thomas Dresser lives on Martha's Vineyard, and this is his fifteenth book for The History Press about the island.