Vineyard Gazette
The Cottagers Club, a charitable organization now well entrenched in its second active year, held its final meeting of the season at the home of Mrs.
The Cottagers
Dorothy West
On Aug. 26, 1869, the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company, an energetic corporation which had bought up acres of the lovely woods and meadows and shore front stretches of what is now Oak Bluffs, sold one of those lots, 69 Pequot avenue, to Lydia B. Smith of New Bedford.
The Cottagers
Dorothy West
Oak Bluffs town hall
Historic buildings
James Kinsella
From their earliest days, they did good works, and had fun doing them. The first money they raised, from an informal series of summer square dances, went to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
The Cottagers

2017

Who needs the History Channel when you’ve got the Cottagers’ 34th Annual House Tour? This year’s event takes place Thursday, July 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

2016

The Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes preached to a capacity crowd at Union Chapel during the Cottagers of Martha’s Vineyard’s 60th anniversary Sunday service. Her sermon instructed her audience to trust their own definition of wholesomeness.

For the past 60 years, women of the Cottagers Inc. have answered the question, what does it mean to serve community?

From the Cottagers’ Corner column in the July 1969 editions of the Vineyard Gazette by Dorothy West.

On Wednesday, July 27, at 5 p.m. there will be a reception to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cottagers.

The many shades of porch living will be in full view on Thursday, July 21 when the 33rd Annual Cottagers Tour allows the public to go inside some of the most iconic homes in Oak Bluffs.

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