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.
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.
