When Shelley Christiansen came upon a house on fire in Oak Bluffs at night, the desolation of the scene, and of County Road, seemed remarkable - until she remembered that it was Winter School Break, a time of year when the island really does seem as empty as the summer people imagine when they ask, "How quiet does the island get in winter?"
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The Dead of the Dead of Martha's Vineyard Winter
http://groucho-karl-marx.blogspot.com/2009/11/overnight-structure-fires-in-both.html
