CCT – An Alabama woman is the new owner of a dream house on Martha’s Vineyard. Kathy O’Dell of Huntsville, Alabama is the winner of the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway® 2015. O’Dell’s name was chosen from 94 million entries, according to the HGTV Home Giveaway Blog. The home is on Crocker Drive in Edgartown, according to the Vineyard Gazette.
The Cape Cod-style, single story home has three bedrooms. In addition to the Martha’s Vineyard home, O’Dell, a married mother of five and grandmother of six, won a 2015 GMC Acadia Denali and a $250,000 cash prize courtesy of Quiken Loans. According to the Dream Home blog, the entire package–home and all–is valued at more than $2 million.
Oh great, a $2 million dollar Edgartown mansion for some chick from Alabama. I’m sure she’ll get plenty of use out of that. I wonder how long until this house is on the market if it’s not already? She’ll probably list it for sale right around the time she realizes the yearly taxes are more than Alabama’s entire state budget.
Giving an Alabaman an estate in Edgartown is like giving a dog bone to an ant. What are they going to do with it, put a couple of old cars on blocks in the driveway and replace the cedar shingles with old hubcaps? Maybe turn it into the world’s most tasteful meth lab?
The only thing that would make less sense than this Alabama woman winning a dream home on Martha’s Vineyard would be a person on Martha’s Vineyard winning a double wide in Tuscaloosa. HGTV needs to think this shit through a little better next time, maybe have two different contests for each side of the Mason Dixon Line? We’ve got our hands full with New Yorkers and New Jersey people, we don’t need them throwing any cousin humpers into the mix for us to co-mingle with.
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Hey I resemble that remark about New Jersey. I even bought a couple of your Tshirts to wear around here. hmmph. Maybe I should give them to my dog who has no idea where she lives. haha
well at least she'll be able topay the taxes one year
The dweeb who wrote this article better stay on the cape….'cause if he sets foot on MV….he better know how to swim! We as vineyarders will go the extra mile to welcome Kathy O'Dell to our island. Please don't judge us by this 'yellow journalist's' drivel.
The dweeb who wrote this article better stay on the cape….'cause if he sets foot on MV….he better know how to swim! We as vineyarders will go the extra mile to welcome Kathy O'Dell to our island. Please don't judge us by this 'yellow journalist's' drivel.
This Vineyarder thinks "Hippie" should have kept this article unpublished. Can you say "nasty, snide, petty, prejudiced and stereotyped, snooty and stupid"? Good grief. The hard part for anyone "winning" a "prize" like this is coming up with the taxes that will be due. The gummint will be asking for between 500 and 700K, most likely. http://www.thinkglink.com/2010/03/22/tax-on-winning-a-house/
Aha ha ha ha!
Aha ha ha ha!
Welcome to the Vineyard Ms. O'Dell..congrats and enjoy 🙂 🙂 🙂
Wow. The writer of this article has no idea how life is on MV. I would guess more of us here resemble the Alabama folks portrayed in this article than what Hippie believes us to be like. Hippie also ought to read the HGTV contest rules befor publishing an article .
Cousin humpers? WOW. "Hippie" you are one messed up person…
Sounds like someone entered twice daily and is real bitter about not winning. Stay off mv "hippie"
F**king bigot. If you talked like that about gays or blacks you'd find yourself the focus of a national media storm and probably end up barred from publication by any reputable journal. But since it is Southerners you think it is fine to be a hateful bigot full of unwarranted assumptions. My you receive all you deserve in life. No, that wasn't a blessing.
F**king bigot. If you talked like that about gays or blacks you'd find yourself the focus of a national media storm and probably end up barred from publication by any reputable journal. But since it is Southerners you think it is fine to be a hateful bigot full of unwarranted assumptions. My you receive all you deserve in life. No, that wasn't a blessing.
Huntsville was the city that hosted the Apollo program. The author of this post probably isn't a rocket scientist, however.
Mom, grandmother, teacher, computer programmer. All round wonderful human being. What a welcome addition to the Vineyard.
I'm not sure the author is part of the human race!…..probably all the drugs!
Can't believe this moron was allowed to write this article. Can't think of someone with less class that this author.
Yoiks, What an unapologetic sort of uncouth article. That's all I got.
Thanks, Hippie! you're the best, and I luv ya!
You definitely went a little too far on this one.
'Hippie' ought to head to Woods Hole and take a long walk off a short pier!
that's the one that really got me too…..
What is everyone here whining about? These are jokes people. Lighten up
"Just a joke" is no excuse for the ignorant, abusive nastiness in this post.
If all you want are PC jokes suitable for five year olds then you are in the wrong place. This website is for adults with a sense of humor beyond Jay Leno. GTFO
I wouldn't want to have to sell out a comedy show on the vineyard! Oh sorry, was that offensive? I was just trying to be funny.
I wouldn't want to have to sell out a comedy show on the vineyard! Oh sorry, was that offensive? I was just trying to be funny.
Ya'll Welcome to Massachusetts
Okay everybody, take a deep breath. Better? Remember – Hippie writes satire, and he does it pretty well. Sure, maybe this one's a little more biting than usual, but you have to admit – there's something deliciously Beverly-Hillbillies about the whole Alabama/Nantucket juxtaposition. And if you find his piece so hateful, maybe you might write something a little LESS hateful in the comments. You know, to not be hypocritical and all.
Okay everybody, take a deep breath. Better? Remember – Hippie writes satire, and he does it pretty well. Sure, maybe this one's a little more biting than usual, but you have to admit – there's something deliciously Beverly-Hillbillies about the whole Alabama/Nantucket juxtaposition. And if you find his piece so hateful, maybe you might write something a little LESS hateful in the comments. You know, to not be hypocritical and all.
What an asshole
What an asshole
Exactly, Norbert. Everyone who is not a pure Cape Codder will be hurt at some time or another. Hence the "domination".
Exactly, Norbert. Everyone who is not a pure Cape Codder will be hurt at some time or another. Hence the "domination".
The Cape Cod Times editorialized about the same thing, absent all the blatantly prejudicial comments. That these HGTV dream homes are often sold quickly because the winners cannot afford to keep them and the money would be spent giving many people smaller homes. However, on the island, she will probably do weekly rentals during the summer to make it work – just like so many people on the Cape & Islands do.
Aso, so what if they sell. They were the winner. It doesn't matter their background. Not everyone would be able to afford the winnings.
Just read this article and amazed at the stupidity of narrow minded and obviously "less educated than they think they are" twits on Cape Cod/Martha's Vineyard!" I've visited the Cape for the past 4 years, with side visits to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, and I'm fortunate I haven't encountered any moron such as this author. Which is why I returned for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th visits.
If the writer calls himself a journalist he needs to check his facts before he prints! Obviously the author isn't aware there are more people with doctorates per capita in Huntsville than any where on Cape Cod or any city in Massachusetts.
And quite frankly, who wouldn't want to sell any home won in a drawing of you love where you live and don't care to move!
Alabama has beautiful mountains, lakes and beaches! We, in the Rocket City, are a mixture from many states and countries. I love to travel to see our beautiful country but will never change my permanent address here in Huntsville! I've lived in several states (Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey) and never encountered any one who prejudged me as a "Redneck from Alabama". Also, I have friends from Massachusettes and Connecticut who moved here with their employers and have chosen to stay.
Oh, BTW! Steve and Kathy have lived in Huntsville since the early 1980s. Kathy is a writer now, after having retired from teaching math, at University of Alabama – Huntsville, and before that, working as a computer programmer. Steve is an astrophysicist at NASA.
#therealcape #HGTV2015Winner #capecod
You obviously have never visited Huntsville, Alabama! It has more engineers and more college educated residents than most places in the nation. The Space and Rocket Center is an amazing place, NASA does amazing work here, as well as many, many companies like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Teledyne Brown, etc. plus the genetic and genome research being done here is nationally recognized. I have lived here for over 30 years and moved here from the Washington, DC area. I found it to be much like Washington in that many residents are not native to Alabama, many retire here from the military because it is such a nice place to live, provides many opportunities, and the southern hospitality can't be beat. You sir, need to learn that insulting people you do not know anything about is about as low as you can go. I have visited Cape Cod and did not notice a difference between the residents there and those in Huntsville. You best do your homework before insulting people just because they live in the south. You don't know what you are talking about. Shame on you. You bring disgrace to your state.
You obviously have never visited Huntsville, Alabama! It has more engineers and more college educated residents than most places in the nation. The Space and Rocket Center is an amazing place, NASA does amazing work here, as well as many, many companies like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Teledyne Brown, etc. plus the genetic and genome research being done here is nationally recognized. I have lived here for over 30 years and moved here from the Washington, DC area. I found it to be much like Washington in that many residents are not native to Alabama, many retire here from the military because it is such a nice place to live, provides many opportunities, and the southern hospitality can't be beat. You sir, need to learn that insulting people you do not know anything about is about as low as you can go. I have visited Cape Cod and did not notice a difference between the residents there and those in Huntsville. You best do your homework before insulting people just because they live in the south. You don't know what you are talking about. Shame on you. You bring disgrace to your state.
I used to live on the north side of that Mason Dixon line. As soon as I got my BSEE, I left the hell hole of the north for Sweet Home Alabama. After twenty years as an Aerospace Propulsion Systems Program Manager for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center here in north Alabama, I recently retired at the young age of forty-five. Unlike the writer, I have a PhD in Physics, can fluently read write & speak three languages (German, Russian, and Arabic)… which is most likely three to four more more than this moron can, can program computers in a half-dozen different modern languages, and have traveled worked & vacationed worldwide in over twenty different countries. When not traveling our great nation with my smoking hot wife in our motorhome, I spend my time fishing at either my spacious modern 5,000 square foot home on beautiful Lake Guntersville or at my 3,000 square foot hurricane-proof Fort Morgan beach house on the Gulf of Mexico in Gulf Shores Alabama. Once every few years I reluctantly visit cousins living up north, and never regret for one minute becoming what they call here in the Heart of Dixie a "damn yankee".