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Stories by Skip Finley

Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 19

May 17, 2017
Skip Finley

It’s charming working at a place like the Vineyard Gazette where someone on staff, apparently researching a story, left a page behind from the Sunday, May 20, 1883 Boston Sunday Herald. What...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 12

May 10, 2017
Skip Finley

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. Town of course was Circuit avenue with...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 5

May 3, 2017
Skip Finley

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. The piece posited that an ancient passage from the head of Deep...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 28

April 26, 2017
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 21

April 19, 2017
Skip Finley

Woodrow Wilson was President in April 1917 when we declared war against Germany and Oak Bluffs was 10 years old following our secession. In 1917 the Sankaty steamed to Nantucket on a long 14-hour...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 14

April 13, 2017
Skip Finley

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 where various levels of magnification will reveal several rocks...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 7

April 5, 2017
Skip Finley

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. It was described as having a...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 31

March 29, 2017
Skip Finley

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’...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 24

March 23, 2017
Skip Finley

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. The town clerk’s office—gaily...

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