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 The mythical Plymouth Rock, known as the first solid land on which the Mayflower Pilgrims, led by William Bradford, stepped in the year 1620 shortly before founding Plymouth Colony.  The Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port.  The flag-draped white-columned house on the far right is the McCarthy residence.  Just behind McCarthy's residence and to the left is JFK's home.  The original Kennedy residence, later inhabited by Sen Ted Kennedy, is in the foreground on the left.  RFK's house lies behind and to the left.  Military helicopters in the skies above Martha's Vineyard, the day President Barrack Obama departed the island after a week-long vacation.  A t-shirt commemorating President Obama's week-long summer stay on Martha's Vineyard, his second such stay on the island.  Oak Bluffs' The Sweet Life Cafe, less than a week after  Salem's The House of Seven Gables, setting for Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic 19th Century novel.  A delivery truck for WB Mason, a small office supply company founded in 1898.  As a northeast-based midmarket company that competes with the likes of Staples and Office Depot, WB Mason is generally considered to be the inspiration for Dunder Mifflin, the fictional paper supplier featured in NBC's