Iconic Tabernacle Secures Future With New Roof

Late last month, after eight months of construction to replace the roof, the public was welcomed back to the pews and stained glass windows of the wrought-iron venue, just in time for Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s graduation.

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Uncovering Hard Truths for Community of Color Legacy

The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association in Oak Bluffs began in 1835 as a small community of like-minded men from Edgartown.

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Methodism on Martha’s Vineyard

The first introduction of Methodism on this island was subsequent to the Revolutionary war. The Baptists then had a flourishing society, chiefly consisting of residents of Tisbury, but numbering some from other towns on the island. The Congregationalists were here from the earliest settlement, and were often spoken of as “the standing order.”

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Again An Old-Fashioned Oak Bluffs Illumination
Vineyard Gazette
Stars sparkled, pink and gold and orange lanterns bobbed, and a soft wind played among the chimes in the Camp Ground Wednesday night for the 104th annual Illumination Night.
 
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In the Grove

Another week has passed, and the readers of the Gazette will probably expect something from the Grove.

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One Hundred Fifty Years of Keeping the Camp Meeting Faith

One hundred fifty years ago this year, by an act of the Massachusetts legislature, the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association was incorporated to manage what had become one of the largest camp meetings in New England.

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Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company
Vineyard Gazette

We call attention to the interesting letter from the Harford Times, which we print to-day. This enterprising Company have already had a further survey of their grounds, and laid out a large number of new lots for cottages. The Company supposed they had enough lots staked out to supply the market for several years, but the demand has been so great, a new supply needed.

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Camp Meeting

“Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!,” shouted the town crier after ringing a large brass bell at the end of Pier 44, Vineyard Haven.

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Building Community Through Song
Vivian Ewing

On a recent Wednesday evening over 200 people followed the winding paths of the Camp Ground to the Trinity Park Tabernacle for the Community Sing, a tradition for more than 100 years.

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The Singing 1920's
Miriam Huss Williamson
The singing 1920’s are happy years I recall as the years of a community-serving Tabernacle.
 
Singing could be heard almost anywhere, almost anytime in Oak Bluffs because half the members of the choir of the Tabernacle lived together, played together and loved to sing together wherever they were. Mr. and Mrs. Adams, Dad and Mother to everyone who knew them, were the leaders of this group of vocal students on vacation.
 
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