I have rented the same house there for twenty years and have been going since '81. I do the website that they refer to in the additional materials, and I've just checked the usage stats for it and for the other websites there that I manage, for the museum, and the land trust, and one of the rental agents. Each of them went up tenfold this morning! - the monheganwelcome.com site (which sends people to the sites for people that run boats, rent houses, etc) went from yesterday's 102 hits to 2434 this morning alone!!
I had put the producer in touch with some of the people interviewed, and urged her to PLEASE show the beauty of the island, not just the "quaint fishing village" aspect, and she did!
(the commercial that comes on before the video seems to change from time to time. I also got snagged by looking at a report on a couple whose children were removed from their house because they had some photos printed at wal-mart that were of their young kids happily taking a bath! Wife lost job, they were listed as sex offenders!! YUK!! (they're suing now, as well they should)
If you're disabled (interpreted broadly) you can use a golf cart; several summer people rent them for the season. If you live there full time you probably need/have a truck to carry fishing and lobstering gear or construction gear around. Basically the year-rounders mostly lobster in the winter and shingle houses, build additions, put in septics, etc, in the summer. This past summer I used a friend's golf cart which had been secured for me by another friend, to take Lincoln around the week I had him out there. It's a bit wild! driving old wobbly golf carts on gravel roads up and down hills! But it is a private island, owned by the people who live there and by the Associates, which owns about 3/4 of it. The trails are NOT open for wheeled vehicles of any sort, including wheelchairs.
Briegull do you know the Edward Hopper painting "Blackhead, Monhegan" ? I've been looking at Hopper because there's an exhibition at a Rotterdam museum I hope to see soon. I see that he lived there? Looks like a wonderful place.
Hopper didn't really live there though he spent parts of a few summers there. He was part of the "New York Group" - the Ashcan School, which was led by Robert Henri. They'd paint gritty NYC scenes in the winter and then go do their plein air paintings in the summer, just for fun. NOW they're considered as important as their winter works. The one who DID live there was Rockwell Kent, had houses there for his mother as well as himself, lived winters there for a few years. He did a great many Monhegan paintings and I could go on for hours about them and about him. I won't. The National Parks thing is on.
Just got back from a small exhibit "Hopper and Contemporaries" at the Kunsthal. Been looking at books with DH and he agreed to go but he has never liked the building and felt very uncomfortable (there was unfortunately a boisterous high school group in there doing some art project) and only let me stay for a few minutes , so I had no time to look at the contemporaries. There was one of my Hopper favorites "South Carolina Morning." I wish i'd read your post before going.
Yes, I'm afraid boisterous high school groups ruin the quiet daytimes at too many museums, and our guys just don't take chaos well. For some years DH was really very upset that he couldn't understand voices talking over one another. Now, somehow, they don't bother him as much as violence on TV shows, which really turns him off. We did go to a local exhibit last year at the RISD museum and he enjoyed the quiet galleries but the more active ones (at a Dale Chilhuly show) he cringed at. There was a big Hopper show at the Whitney a couple of years ago that I took AZ friend Helga to. She had always loved art, painted, married an artist etc. I was sad to see that she couldn't focus on the art at all; it was like my mathematician husband not being able to focus on math any more.
Susan, those little elastic wrist bands worked for me..and I was the first one to get seasick before. Someone else can explain how they work. - but the little buttons on the wrist press on a pressure point that helps! They even work on my grandson who is very prone to carsickness.