Still quaint

Menemsha Harbor.

“Through the years this little fishing port (Menemsha, on Martha’s Vineyard) has retained its identity with the past. The wharfs where the fishing boats tie up have a crustiness about them that is unbeatable. The inlet, Menemsha Pond and Quitsa Pond, have that something special that comes from salt marshes on the east, little coves on the southwest, and a high bluff  and white sandy beaches on the west and north – they are so perfect even a full moon or a rising sun can hardly improve upon them.’

From “Welcome to Menemsha,’’ by Davis Taylor (1908-2002), a longtime Boston Globe publisher, in Arthur Griffin’s New England: The Four Seasons (1980)