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Stories by Skip Finley

Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 13

March 11, 2015
Skip Finley

Circuit avenue is likely to look substantially different by the time the snowbirds return, with more changes since, well, probably the 1950s. The plywood construction adjacent to Ben & Bill...

Sen. Edward Brooke Is Fondly Remembered at National Cathedral Service

March 10, 2015
Skip Finley

The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is the length of almost two football fields. Construction began on the cathedral in 1907, the same year Cottage City became Oak Bluffs. The construction...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 6

March 6, 2015
Skip Finley

“Proud to be from OB” is a modest claim compared with past articles. In one Vineyard Gazette article a writer opined, “People have said that there would not be any Vineyard summer...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 27

February 25, 2015
Skip Finley

Oscar Edward Denniston was born April 5, 1875 in Kingston, Jamaica. Appointed superintendent of the seamen’s mission there, he met and cared for Madison Edwards who had taken sick on a vacation...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 20

February 19, 2015
Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs has many contributors to history from today and yesterday who are black. One, Dr. Beny J. Primm, just published his first book, The Healer: A Doctor’s Crusade Against Addiction and...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 13

February 11, 2015
Skip Finley

On Feb. 17, 1880, Cottage City became the only town in the state of Massachusetts to secede — ironically due to taxation without representation, the same reason the new United States ended its...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 6

February 4, 2015
Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs is one of the rarest of places, a place where many, past and present, have been contributors to American black history. Rarer still, but not unexpected, our richly diverse town has...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan. 30

January 28, 2015
Skip Finley

There are so many memorial benches lining the Inkwell and Pay beaches all the way down to the Steamship Authority that one loses count over such a distance. It could be the changing waterscape that...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan. 23

January 21, 2015
Skip Finley

Sunday, Jan. 25, marks the 108th anniversary of changing the town’s name from Cottage City to Oak Bluffs. The town website says, “Originally incorporated in 1880 as Cottage City, in 1907...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan. 16

January 14, 2015
Skip Finley

Diversions. The hyperbole journalists delighted in at the advent of Oak Bluffs placed it on a level with Paris or Rome, comparing the new town with paintings by Monet in the 1870s. Visitors were...

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