Another story of Oak Bluffs, the town where dreams come true, is one about Dr. John Wilson Jr., new president of Morehouse College, when he brought college buddy Spike Lee to the Island to visit his grandmother’s house.

“When we last met...” is how Mel Patrick introduced each annual issue of the Delegate. The Delegate, published between 1965 and 1985, was a magazine that chronicled the leaders and activities of Black America’s disparate business, cultural, sports, club, labor, advertising, political and social organizations, and it always had a section devoted to Oak Bluffs. His daughter, Nashawena Park’s cottager Anne Patrick, donated a full set of these historic treasures to the Smithsonian Institution for its new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

“Savor the moment” was the favorite expression of Della Louise Brown Taylor Hardman, a granddaughter of slaves, who was from Charleston, W.V.