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...

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...

“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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...