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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Excited locals await Obamas at vacation spot AFP - Sunday, August 23 MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Massachusetts (AFP) - - A classic New England summer spot off the coast of Massachusetts is in a frenzy as locals prepare to welcome US President Barack Obama and his family for their vacation on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Martha's Vineyard has long been a holiday spot for political powerhouse families, including the Kennedys and the Clintons, and prides itself on quietly receiving celebrities and power brokers without a fuss. But even "Hollywood East," as the island is sometimes called, is star-struck in anticipation of Obama's week-long summer vacation, his first since becoming president in January. "It's all over the news," said vacationer Robin Howell, 39. "It's like Obamamania. Everyone is talking about him being in Massachusetts." Nancy Gardella, executive director of the Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce, said people were excited to be near the president and are hoping to catch a glimpse of the leader and his family. Gardella's office has been fielding a rash of calls from people asking "Which ice cream place he'll be going to?," "Where's their favorite beach?," Where can we rent a bicycle and cycle to where they're staying?" Obama, his wife Michelle and first daughters Malia, 11, and Sasha, 9, will be residing at a well-guarded mansion called Blue Heron Farm in the rural town of Chilmark. On the opposite end of the island in Oak Bluffs, a town popular with African American vacationers for about a century, t-shirts boasting "I vacationed with Obama" or featuring the commander-in-chief's smiling face are on display in almost every store window. The vacation may be briefly dampened by the effects of Hurricane Bill as it swings by in the Atlantic off the northeastern US coastline. The Category One-level storm churned up large waves over the weekend and forced the closure of some area beaches, but was expected to lose strength as it moves north and strikes far eastern Canada on Sunday. The most creative homages to the first family's visit are edible. Shops across the island have concocted Obama specials, in the hopes of luring the president and his family to their businesses. Mocha Mott's, a coffee shop with two locations on the island, rolled out a new variation on the store's traditional iced mocha, called a "mochabama." Barista Gillian MacLeod chuckled as she explained the concept, cooked up by Mocha Mott's owner Tim Dobel. The whipped cream-topped espresso drink is "some kind of statement about a post-racial society in which we have the dark chocolate syrup and the white chocolate syrup coming together in this one drink," she told AFP. At Sharkey's Cantina, a Mexican restaurant nearby, a street-side chalkboard advertised Barack-o-tacos, and inside the bartender was busy shaking up mandarin orange Obamaritas and Obamatinis, since the restaurant's owner discovered on Wikipedia that mandarin orange is the US president's favorite fruit. Martha's Vineyard has played host to sitting presidents in the past, and seen the inevitable presidential specials concocted in their honor before. Carol McManus, the owner of Espresso Love in Edgartown, says the fruit and cream cheese "presidential muffin" she came up with in honor of former president Bill Clinton's first summer on the Vineyard is what put her then-brand-new coffee shop on the map. This summer, the "Obama muffin," made with Hawaiian fruits, whole wheat flour and oats "in honor of the president's healthy lifestyle" has become her best seller. "I'm just hoping I can somehow get him to try one," she told AFP. "I'm sure he's going to like it." At the island's only microbrewery, a chalkboard reads "Ale to the chief." Beer brewer Neil Atkins said a friend suggested the best way to get Obama to take a sip of Offshore Ale's "Presidentiale" was to find a way to get some to his Secret Service escort. Atkins has also sent an email to the White House, letting them know that the dedicated brew is made exclusively with American ingredients and will be tapped on Sunday in honor of the Obamas' arrival. "I also thanked the president for enabling my family to buy our first home," said Atkins, 37, who took advantage of a government program that gives homebuyers a rebate to promote home ownership. 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