https:// www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/travel/escapes/31martha.html
Just up the hill from the only Chilmark beach open to all island visitors are abutting inns that historically had been separately owned. In 2004, Bob and Sarah Nixon, owners of the Menemsha Inn, acquired the Beach Plum Inn. Now the couple, conservationists and documentary filmmakers based in Washington, spread their enthusiasm on the two properties set discreetly across some 25 wooded acres.