For the 62 years our family has been blessed with living in Oak Bluffs family tradition allows our kids to go to “town” unaccompanied at night.
In the Sept. 21, 2012 column I wrote about a June 1953 article entitled Oak Bluffs Was Definitely an Island Once by Joseph Chase Allen.
Unless you were around when Ogkeshkuppe was the name the original people gave Oak Bluffs, it would be too much to ask if you were familiar with Quinni-ummuh Street over in Ooh-quiessa near Asanootucket Pond.
Woodrow Wilson was President in April 1917 when we declared war against Germany and Oak Bluffs was 10 years old following our secession.
Those with time on their hands waiting for winter to wend its way out and bring spring will want to waste some time with Google Earth.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission has information in its archives about the Oak Bluffs High School that was built in 1934-1935 as a junior/senior high school.
Fortunately Robert Morris Copeland and his partner of the time, H.W.Cleveland, lost the competition to design New York’s Central Park and wound up designing what became Oak Bluffs’ Cottage City Historic District instead.
I attended the open house back in February at the hand-me-down town hall and while roaming around the sad building curiosity once again got the best of me.
East Chop’s Chris Rowan located an interesting old postcard of a house we’re not quite sure of with a sign, Bellevue, and handwritten notes saying “Sanitarium, Oak Bluffs, Mass” and “Temahigan Road.”
