By Nora Ellen Groce
From the 17th century to the early years of the 20 th, the inhabitants of Martha's winery manifested an exceptionally excessive fee of profound hereditary deafness. In stark distinction to the adventure of such a lot deaf humans in our personal society, the Vineyarders who have been born deaf have been so completely built-in into the lifestyle of the group that they weren't seen--and didn't see themselves--as handicapped or as a bunch aside. Deaf humans have been integrated in all facets of existence, similar to city politics, jobs, church affairs, and social lifestyles. How was once this attainable?
On the winery, listening to and deaf islanders alike grew up talking signal language. This distinct sociolinguistic version intended that the standard obstacles to communique among the listening to and the deaf, which so isolate many deaf buyers, didn't exist.
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He wrote to a friend in England: "The Lord has bine very gracious ... to bringe us oure Pastor whom we so long expected-Mr. Lothrop, who the Lord has brought us in safety" (Pratt 1929:215). Of the thirty men who are known to have traveled with Lothrop to Scituate (Deane 1831), only two are known to have been single. Eight are known to have been married; they were accompanied to the New The Origins of Vineyard Deafness • 33 World by their wives and children and nineteen servants-some sixty people.
18 • Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language Island sailors would meet their neighbors in the middle of the Arctic Ocean or on a crowded byway in China. There was a Vineyard Street in Honolulu, and it was said that Vineyarders on some far-flung Polynesian atoll would find -young children named after whalers they knew from home (usually for a very good reason). Edgartown, with the best harbor on the island, was the center of the whaling industry and one of the major ports of New England. Always somewhat less isolated than other areas of the Island, with whaling and the flourishing coaster trade, the town became, by Vineyard standards, positively cosmopolitan.
Now you make two or three trips a day, you don't think anything about it. Another informant, now in her nineties, when asked about a family in Chilmark, said: "I don't know much about them. They were in Chilmark, and I never bothered much. " Her house is less than a mile from the Chilmark line. One man who is now in his late sixties mentioned that even in more recent times adults have been intensely aware of the different sections of Chilmark and of who belonged where. This man decided to marry a woman from another part of Chilmark: See, I was incarcerated around [Menemsha] creek for the most part.