Tom Dresser is in to talk about his book: "The Wampanoag Tribe of Martha's Vineyard".
Jack Shea, on MVTimes.com says, “For his part, Mr. Dresser has written a wonderful, straightforward account of the life and times of the Island's native inhabitants, now called the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), who got here first, about 10,000 years ago.
It's a fascinating, often uncomfortable account of the meeting of two tribes, indigenous people and English settlers who brought their culture, mores, needs, and greed to this new place, this new England. Mr. Dresser's micro lens zooms in on the happenings on our tiny Island over a 400-year period, from the early 1600s to U.S. recognition of tribal sovereignty in 1987.”
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Mr. Dresser, an island resident, began writing as an eleven-year-old editor of his local newspaper The Springdale News. During his decades as an elementary school teacher and a nursing home administrator, Mr. Dresser published monthly newsletters to keep his public informed. In the 1990s he self-published a quartet of guides: Cape Ann, Lawrence and Haverhill in Massachusetts and Mount Desert Maine.