The Oak Bluffs Association, established in 1990 to improve tourism and enrich the quality of life for Oak Bluffs community members, traces its ancestry to 1977 when the first Tivoli Day was launched...

Four of the six men (Shubael Lyman Norton, Ira Darrow, Grafton Norton Collins and William Bradley) who formed the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company that built Cottage City were whaling captains. They...

Oak Bluffs is indeed a town where dreams come true; one where those whose dreams have come true choose to live, visit and vacation. Lots of successful Oak Bluffs' denizens have traveled the world...

Oak Bluffs owes quite a bit to educator and historian Dr. Adelaide M. Cromwell. Her article in the Dukes County Intelligencer of August, 1984 was the first to define our town with the title The...

Loïs Mailou Jones (1905 – 1998) was arguably one of the more accomplished of Martha’s Vineyard artists. The former Oak Bluffs summer resident has had three books written about her art....

Another story of Oak Bluffs, the town where dreams come true, is one about Dr. John Wilson Jr., new president of Morehouse College, when he brought college buddy Spike Lee to the Island to visit his...

“When we last met...” is how Mel Patrick introduced each annual issue of the Delegate. The Delegate, published between 1965 and 1985, was a magazine that chronicled the leaders and...

“Savor the moment” was the favorite expression of Della Louise Brown Taylor Hardman, a granddaughter of slaves, who was from Charleston, W.V. Born May 20, 1922, Della Hardman went on to...

The Tivoli Ballroom, opened in 1901 and replaced by the old town hall when it was torn down in 1964 (it was where the Oak Bluffs Police headquarters is today) was Oak Bluffs’ last pure musical...

I was startled, in a moment of reverie last week, to realize I’ve overlooked Oak Bluffs children, who aren’t overly portrayed in history. Thinking back over all the books and periodicals...