Aquinnah
Town in Martha's Vineyard, MassachusettsWikipedia
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Oct 16, 2026
Scott BrillHOST
Yes.
Scott BrillHOST
Uh, Clay, the famed Gay Head cliffs, so named for the variety of earth tone striations on the western end of Martha's Vineyard Island, are primarily composed of what natural soil material?
Clay ZamboGUEST
Peat.
Penny ReedGUEST
[laughs]
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Natalie AndersonGUEST
Uh, 300 and 300.
Scott BrillHOST
Okay.
Scott BrillHOST
Uh, the thing that the beautiful Gay Head Cliffs of Martha's Vineyard are made of clay.
Scott BrillHOST
W- what did you, [laughs] what did you foretell, guess here?
Jeanette BarnesCORRESPONDENT
A no vote is the repeal.
Mindy ToddHOST
Also this week, you have an update on a project in Aquinnah that you reported on over the summer.
Mindy ToddHOST
This is about building an Indigenous-run domestic violence center.
Mindy ToddHOST
So what's the latest on that?
Jeanette BarnesCORRESPONDENT
Yeah, so we reported about this project previously.
Jeanette BarnesCORRESPONDENT
It's called Aquinnah Headwaters.
Jeanette BarnesCORRESPONDENT
It's a center that would serve Native people who live anywhere in southeastern Massachusetts for healing activities and shelter for those who need it following domestic violence or sexual violence.
Jeanette BarnesCORRESPONDENT
It would be located in Aquinnah.
Karen KramerGUEST
So it winds up being this very interesting place where kind of We lie on the boundary here between what is considered northern and southern New England.
Karen KramerGUEST
I think that we also need to recognize that the federally recognized tribes of the Wampanoag Nation at Aquinnah, at Mashpee, they have been stewarding this land, including coastal Massachusetts, for many, many generations, hundreds of years now.
Karen KramerGUEST
thousands of years.
Karen KramerGUEST
When Roger Conant arrived on these shores in Salem, Salem was an indigenous place.
Howie CarrHOST
Remember then, then they changed the...
Howie CarrHOST
Down on, uh, Martha's Vineyard, they changed the name of Gay Head.
Howie CarrHOST
I don't know why they didn't like the name Gay Head.
Jared DiglioHOST
[laughs]
Howie CarrHOST
They changed that to Aquinnah.
Richard SkidmoreGUEST
So over the years, I moved here as a year-round person in 1988.
Richard SkidmoreGUEST
So, you know, 20 years after my first visit to the Gay Head Light.
Richard SkidmoreGUEST
And so for my period over the next time when I was actually Keeper, etc., to me, this was a permanent thing, the Gay Head Lighthouse.
Richard SkidmoreGUEST
I mean, you see a lighthouse, it's kind of rooted there.
Richard SkidmoreGUEST
You're not thinking about it moving.
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Richard SkidmoreGUEST
don't want to go
Jeremy D'EntremontHOST
there.
Jeremy D'EntremontHOST
Anyway, what does the Gay Head Lighthouse mean to the community of Aquinnah?
Jeremy WellsHOST
Yeah.
Jeremy WellsHOST
Did you go to Gay Head Light?
Manaia StewartHOST
I've got a photo in the chat room that I just put in there.
Manaia StewartHOST
The chat roulette.
Manaia StewartHOST
I visited Gay Head.
Jeremy WellsHOST
No, no, no, but on your holiday.
Manaia StewartHOST
I visited Gay Head a couple of times.
Manaia StewartHOST
Yeah, right.