The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 25

I -m I THE WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON Sundoy Auguit 6 1989 3C Desire for privacy clashes with history on tiny lot By Sunn Levin Knight-Ridder New Service VINEYARD Maas It seems fair to ny that none of this suing and countersuing would be taking place had not an elderly Indian woman nine years ago sold her 17 percent Interest in Lot 615 On Its face 17 percent much of a deaL Lot 615 measured scarcely 15 acres at most only 250 feet deep and 264 feet wide and although It was on one of the prettiest stretches of white sand beach on the exceptionally pretty Island of Vineyard there a thing that could be done with it It couldn't be developed be built on Couldn't even be camped on not with half the plot tidal beach and the other half hilly 1 dune and brambles But a former first lady named Jacqueline Kennedy Onasris wasn't looking for a good deal back then She was looking for a way to get rid of what she surely saw as a nasty thorn in her side a tiny square of land that by circumstance of history Just happened to sit id the middle of her 380flcre estate want my beach 1 want my said Thelma Wdasbeig a handsome and carefully spoken woman of 61 taking It from me and had enough taken The property in question is in the tiny town at Gey Head which In the winter numbers 180 people half of them Wampanoag The western half of Martha's Vineyard rather resembles a leg and Gey Head sits alone out on the foot where the Mg toe would be It is threequarters of an hour from there to where the public ferries dock on the Island's eastern side But the tourists come anyway snapping pictures of the brilliantly striated 66foot cliffs and buying ice cream T-shirts and Indian trinkets in the several strops Onaasis is reportedly the biggest landowner in town Several miles from the dlffe she owns a summer home that looks almost palatial from the air which Is the only way an outsider can see it During much of the summer she employs security guards to patrol her expensive length of beach and keep away fop traders It would be gone within 10 years "Because the interested party is Mra Forger said at the time seems evident that they believe they can obtain five times what the property Is The deal was off "They only want to stop said attorney Paul Suite who Is representing 16 of the 26 Indians a sad thing a symbol of the white man taking their Sulla is arguing In Boston land court that his clients ritould have access to their land by reasons of necessity and historical Implication Were the court to agree it would surely complicate Onassis' partition effort "With Sulla printed out "the price of the property Not that Weissberg her older sister Robinson Manning or any of their other relatives wants to sell Manning talks about holding quiet family ceremonies on It Robinson hopes to leave her share to her children Weissberg wants ooly to enjoy it as she did as a child and to take her grandnieces bluebeny-picklng there "I Just want her to give us a right of way to our property" Weissberg said Just want her to leavela any way to reach parcels such as Lot 615 Onassis about' to give it to them now "This is a consolidation of her land said James Reynolds her Martha's Vineyard attorney One of her other attorneys Alexander Fbiger of New York has explained the legal action In terms of his client's desire for privacy "Mrs Onassis has been subjected to a good deal of violence and upset In her Forger has told report-era "As a public figure she also attracts a number of threatening calls and letters looking for a (dace where she and her fondly can enjoy some quiet without befog exposed to Such coocerns receive little sympathy from the Wampanoagi There is no love lost anymore in this litigation "I care if I never see her and Tm not interested in her seeing said Helen Manning a granddaughter of William and Beulah Manning's characterization of her famous neighbor is unprintable one has bothered her" said a more diplomatic Bertha Robinson who like her cousin simply fathom why someone who owns nearly 400 acres would want to battle over a seemingly Insignificant 15 "We realize that a woman of power that she has a great deal of comfort" Robinson said "She need any more (land) That little acre means so much more to Indeed the Indians consider their properly a sacred heritage It is one of the few pieces that their people traditionally a fishing tribe still own on the Atlantic seaboard They talk about it almost spiritually "I know I have guides on the cllffo and the Manning said Legend has it that Chief Moshup their iunwtorf greatest sachem or medicine man chose the spot as his final resting place As the white man advanced he threw his children into the ocean so that they could live free as whales Then he vanished When the fog rolls over the beach in early morning It is said that that is Moshup still smoking his pipe within the dunes For a short while last year Onassis and the Wampanoags were discussing a land swap But then Onassis asked for $150000 In addition to the trade Her attorneys said that Lot 615 was eroding so rapidly that Hi Photo JacqueHno Onassis wants full ownership of Lot 615b For Just $1000 she got exactly what she wanted A onealxth interest gave Onaasis the legal right to bring to court the 26 other owners of Lot 615 Wampanoag Indians in whose fondly the land went back a century the properly and its likely sale at public auction No one questioned who the highest bidder would be Yet nine years later the issue remains unresolved Only now a battle being waged both in probate court on the Island and in land court on the mainland The Indians are angry They're fighting back Intruders are exactly what Weiss-beig and her relatives are anytime they want to visit Lot 615 The plot was awarded to their forebears William and Beulah Vanderhoop in the Gay Head Land Set-Off of 1878 One of the incongruities of that settlement however wss that it cut up the former Indian district In checkerboard fashion without providing And to their Utter astonishment Onassis did Just that She filed a lawsuit to force the partitioning of G0I6UJRHS! 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