Vineyard Patio Umbrella With Base

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Enjoy warm weather in style with our Vineyard Patio Umbrella. Providing comfortable shade in every situation, this umbrella is built of naturally water-safe aluminum and polyester cloth, designed to provide excellent shade for decks, pools, or your outdoor lounge. A cross base and foot pedal controls offer 360-degree rotation so you can put the shade where you need it as the day goes on. The included hand crank will let you open and shut your large patio umbrella with ease, and the eye-catching double-top design allows for increased airflow to keep the space under your umbrella cool and comfortable all day long. So spend a day in the sun with the Vineyard Patio Umbrella and get the most out of warm days outside. Pair with the rest of the Vineyard Collection for the ultimate outdoor experience.

Editors' Note

The Vineyard Collection is named for the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts which, like New York's Sag Harbor, has stood for generations as a summer oasis for African American families. The tradition began in 1912 when Charles and Henrietta Shearer opened Shearer Cottage, one of the first establishments in the area to cater to Black travelers and families. Former teachers, educated at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia, Charles was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation, while Henrietta (née Merchant) was born free to one of the oldest free Black families in Lynchburg, Virginia. The couple first arrived in Massachusetts in 1891. By 1903 they owned two properties in the Oak Bluffs neighborhood near the island's northern tip. The first business they opened there was a laundry where Henrietta quickly gained a reputation for her sophisticated work. The inn — originally an addition to the Shearer home on the island — was an immediate success, offering not only lodgings, but dining, catering services, and a horse-drawn wagon to provide transportation to guests. Other notable establishments opened during this time include Aunt Georgia's House (now, the Tivoli Inn), founded by Mrs. Georgia O’Brien and Ms. Louisa Izett, as well as a guest house run by Mrs. Anthony Smith. Early frequenters of the island included Black music composer Henry T. Burleigh, famed for his introduction and adaptation of African American spirituals into the lexicon of American music. In part through his considerable influence, the island became popular with many leading Black Americans, especially the Shearer Cottage where he was known as "Uncle Harry" among the children. The island soon became a destination for people such as William H. Lewis, the first Black US Assistant Attorney General, and Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, America's first Black psychiatrist. The latter's wife, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, was among the most distinguished sculptors of the Harlem Renaissance. Along with them, many other Renaissance luminaries spent their summers at "The Vineyard," including Langston Hughes, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Dorothy West, considered the last great writer of the period. In 1937, Powell, a future congressman, and his wife, the former Cotton Club dancer and Broadway performer, Isabell Washington Powell, purchased the "Bunny Cottage," now known as the Powell Cottage, at which the couple entertained friends such as Matthew Henson, the African American explorer famed for reaching the North Pole with Robert Peary in 1909, and for whom a lunar crater was named in 2021. Similarly, the 18-room Victorian mansion owned by Joe Overton, now known as "Villa Rosa," was known as the "Summer White House," for Black America when Overton was in residence. As one of New York's first Black labor organizers and president of the city's NAACP chapter, Overton was easily among New York's most influential African Americans of the time. During the family's tenure, the house, which is still considered one of the finest examples of Victorian architecture on the island, hosted high-profile guests from Martin Luther King Jr. to Fidel Castro. By the 1950s, Martha's Vineyard was a national summer destination for middle-class Black families. The tradition continues today with Spike Lee, Oprah and the Obamas among the many who make time each summer to call the island home.