Jane Slater | Childhood Memories of WWII

Jane Slater (b. 1932) is from an old Vineyard family. Spending summers on the Vineyard until she was seven, in 1939 she came to the Island with her brother and mother to live year-round while her father was engaged in the War effort in the mid-West. She attended Island schools and graduated from Queens College in New York. She worked in the Personnel field in NYC for many years, never missing a summer on the Vineyard. In 1976 she opened the Over South antique store in Menemsha and she and her husband moved to the Vineyard year-round in the 1980’s.
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