A publication titled This Week in Oak Bluffs for the week of August 10, 1930 was not too different with our times today. In a story of his childhood summer, Edward J. Teran included the line “The moon was playing hide and seek with a fleet of silvery clouds.” Another article heralded the commemoration of the Veterans’ Monument at Ocean Park and the baseball games at Petaluma Park, where a Little League field is today. Baseball was popular then, just like Niantic Park’s Pickle Ball is today, according to finance and advisory committee chair Steve Auerbach.

Dick Sanford, son of Mimi and the late George Sanford, is an American Legion baseball coach in West Hartford, Conn.

Last summer in August the Beach Club held a history night. In Mimi Carroll’s introduction, we learned that George Semler had done the computer work for the slide show.

I try to walk early each morning. Along the way, I often join up with an old friend or two.