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Stories by Skip Finley

A Walk Down Pennacook Avenue

October 22, 2020
Skip Finley

Pennacook avenue in Oak Bluffs is a street full of stories, the latest of which is a lovely coincidence. For most of its existence and for no known reason, at the Sea View avenue end of the street...

Vineyard Abolitionists Stand Tall

February 20, 2019
Skip Finley

Many contributors to black history weren’t black. Take the abolitionists, for example. It’s unknown when abolitionism became a practice on Martha’s Vineyard; although not universal...

Old Variety Store Is a Survivor's Tale

November 29, 2018
Skip Finley

The Old Variety Store behind the Flying Horses has come into the public spotlight with the news that the owner wants to tear it down and replace it with a new building. The old wooden edifice will...

For Whaling Captains, Diversity Flourished

August 16, 2018
Skip Finley

Many splendid homes on Martha’s Vineyard were built by whaling captains, but little has been written about the origin of the money that allowed their construction. For 156 years — from...

Houses Carry Stories in Every Room

June 14, 2018
Skip Finley

The home at 47 Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs is a house of many stories. Owned for the past 56 years by Joseph Sequeira Vera, it was originally built in 1868 by Erastus Payson Carpenter, the leader of the...

An Island Apart But With a History of Inclusiveness

February 5, 2018
Skip Finley

Following the election of President Obama, longtime Vineyarder Sen. Edward W. Brooke, the nation’s first black senator and a Republican, wrote in a Boston newspaper: “Like others, I had...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 16

June 15, 2017
Skip Finley

It’s been a blast penning the Town of Oak Bluffs column since my first on June 22, 2012. Oak Bluffs has a great history filled with stories of people and places, many eccentric, almost all...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 9

June 8, 2017
Skip Finley

It seems as the season starts we take a lot for granted. Perhaps too much time spent thinking about the person driving too slow or too fast causes folks to lose focus on things that matter in Oak...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 2

June 1, 2017
Skip Finley

About a week ago Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, made some heartfelt and interesting remarks about the removal of the city’s insulting Confederate monuments. Bill McGrath brought the...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 26

May 24, 2017
Skip Finley

Nostalgia is bitter sweet by definition and a burden one would just as soon not experience like last week when I found that Mary’s Linen is no more, replaced by a T-shirt shop some other nice...

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