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CB Stark Jewelers celebrates 45 years on Martha's Vineyard

31.08.11

Now, 45 years later, Ms. Stark and her business and life partner, Margery Meltzer, are co-owners of two thriving stores and an online jewelry business. The first summer she was here, 1966, she taught jewelry making at the Island Craft Center in the building off Main Street later occupied by Murray's For Men. When Cheryl Stark first started making and selling jewelry on the Vineyard, she was 19 years old and the Island was a haven for young people looking for an escape from mainstream America. Last Friday she threw a party to celebrate the business's anniversary and to share memories of a professional lifetime of making jewelry &mdash. Then, with friends, she opened Silver and Leather at the top of Union Street. In 1969 she went solo in part of a garage on Water Street that later became the Black Dog Bakery.

Source: Martha's Vineyard Times