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Northshore October 2025
  A delightfully eccentric figure, Barbara Ronchetti welcomed us to her 19-acre alpaca farm in the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. Willowy and sweet, she was clad all in black as we sat at a picnic table next to some of her alpaca herd, and spoke lovingly about her animals, who have “beautiful curls” on their cheeks and like to “give kisses.”  It might seem a bit odd that an alpaca farm is one of the island’s top attractions. But then again, there’s a lot about Martha’s Vineyard—especially Oak Bluffs—that’s delightfully eccentric, as I discove
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