One of the newest old things on Island is the Vineyard Gazette’s Time Machine, the online feature I’m having a ball using to identify old cool stuff. One of those is a Friday, Feb. 25, 1859 article titled First House in OB: Martha’s Vineyard Wesleyan Grove Camp Ground. There’s certainly some hyperbole there; we all know way back when Oak Bluffs was Ogkeshkuppe, the first white man Joseph Daggett and his beautiful wife Ahoma lived in the Farm Neck/Eastville neighborhood until 1673.

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