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Contents:
- GAY HEAD VOTED OUT AS MASS. TOWN'S NAME
- GAY HEAD JOURNAL; A TOWN WH HISTORY, BUT WHOSE?
- GAY HEAD OR AQUNAH? CHANGE TO A VOTE
GAY HEAD VOTED OUT AS MASS. TOWN'S NAME
Rints the Martha's Veyard island town of Gay Head, Mass., have cid by a three-vote marg to change s name to the origal Indian name of... * gay head name change *
GAY HEAD, MASSACHUSETTSOn the wtern edge of the island of Martha's Veyard, there is an outcroppg of craggy, brightly tted rock.
GAY HEAD JOURNAL; A TOWN WH HISTORY, BUT WHOSE?
The town of Gay Head was born.
It was laid to rt 400 years later, when the town of Gay Head succsfully voted to change s name to Aqunah 1997. That name mak me thk of a sex act, " the people behd the name change want the world to know their cisn had nothg to do wh homosexual nnotatns.
GAY HEAD, Mass., May 15 -- Rints the Martha's Veyard island town of Gay Head, Mass., have cid by a three-vote marg to change s name to the origal Indian name of Aqunah ('-kw-a ah'). Early whe explorers gave the name Gay Head to the lorful cliffs on the wtern tip of the rort island. ' Gay Head was adopted as the town's official name when was rporated 1870.
GAY HEAD OR AQUNAH? CHANGE TO A VOTE
A group of Indians and wh here would like that to May 15, the 191 registered voters this town on the wtern edge of Martha's Veyard will be asked whether Gay Head should change s name to Aqunah, the origal Wampanoag name for the wtern Veyard the measure succeeds, Gay Head would bee only the third Massachetts municipaly this century to rename self.