In the Waterview Farm area of Oak Bluffs is a boulder as tall as a man. Back in the 1790s, the Rev. John Saunders delivered his sermons here, from atop “Pulpit Rock.” Mr.
African American History
September 29, 1992
Julia Wells
The West Tisbury school committee voted last night to appoint Robert A.
September 4, 1992
Mark Alan Lovewell
Life Magazine photographer Gordon Parks gave a talk at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Wednesday night. For the Vineyard it was a first.
February 21, 1992
W. C. Platt
In the 1920s and ’30s, black families could not buy property in Edgartown.
July 7, 1981
Joseph B. White
A man and woman charged recently with sleeping in Ocean Park, a violation of Oak Bluffs law, came before the Dukes county district court judge Herbert E. Tucker, Jr.
August 29, 1978
Susan Mutch
There is no end to Lois Mailou Jones’ creative resources.
May 14, 1976
Richard Reston
His education began in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania, in small towns like Shepton and Port Carbon.
October 20, 1972
Vineyard Gazette
The little white house behind shrubs at the corner of Cooke street and Tilton Way that, for more than three decades, has been a home away from home for household help in Edgartown, no longer will be welcoming the lonely next summer.
June 25, 1971
Dorothy West
We were always stared at. Whenever we went outside the neighborhood that knew us, we were inspected like specimens under glass. My mother prepared us.
November 11, 1966
Vineyard Gazette
Edward W. Brooke of Newton and Oak Bluffs became the first African American ever elected to the United States Senate by a popular vote.
August 9, 1966
Vineyard Gazette
Kivie Kaplan, national president of the N.A.A.C.P., who was recently vacationing in Vineyard Haven, took off on July 29 for a five day trip to New Orleans for the association’s Louisiana summer pro
December 13, 1963
Vineyard Gazette
As the result of interest shown at a meeting Monday night, the Island now has a chapter of its own of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
