More than 2,000 people gathered in the Tabernacle Saturday night to celebrate the structure's 125th birthday.
Camp Meeting History
July 2, 2004
Helen Phillips
The Tabernacle, which celebrates its 125th birthday this season, still feels young.
July 5, 1996
Tom Dunlop
The whininess, contempt and partisanship with which the Vineyard Gazette reported this story over six years is journalism in its brightest rain-slicker yellow - all the more embarrassing and ente
December 3, 1982
Vineyard Gazette
At last Sunday’s service in the Oak Bluffs Trinity Church on the Camp Ground, Hezekiah began ringing again.
March 19, 1982
Mark Lovewell
There was a time at the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground when a bell atop Trinity Church rang the beginning of summer’s festive events, just as it would each Sunday’s call to worship.
August 3, 1979
Miriam Huss Williamson
The singing 1920’s are happy years I recall as the years of a community-serving Tabernacle.
February 9, 1979
Vineyard Gazette
The Camp Ground at Oak Bluffs is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Michael J.
August 16, 1974
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.
June 25, 1965
Vineyard Gazette
A hundred years ago the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, having decided that the time had come to assure a settled state, acquired by purchase its extensive acreage at what is now Oa
May 6, 1960
Vineyard Gazette
The modern town of Oak Bluffs traces its origin to a camp meeting held at the site, then a paradise or a wilderness — most people thought the former — in 1835.
August 23, 1935
Vineyard Gazette
A circumstantial account of the selection of the site of the Martha’s Vineyard camp ground - which was the equivalent of the selection of the site for the town of Oak Bluffs - is contained in a c
July 2, 1926
Vineyard Gazette
At the Tabernacle at Oak Bluffs next Sunday evening the services will include the dedication of the huge electric cross which will hereafter surmount the edifice.
