There can no longer be any doubt that summer has arrived, bringing people home and to visit Oak Bluffs for what looks like one more busy, bustling season. Something is in the air this year, greater...

Martha’s Vineyard Magazine heralded the previously moribund whaling business on Martha’s Vineyard in its May/June issue by announcing the June 18 visit of the Charles W. Morgan, America...

In 1980 I was probably too old, when The Empire Strikes Back came out, to have fallen in awe of possibly the most iconic bad guy in history, Darth Vader.Similarly, in 1962 I was definitely too young...

The Oak Bluffs Library is clearly the pride of Pacific avenue. Tomorrow begins one of the Library Friends of Oak Bluffs book drives from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday features the imaginative Yoga...

Looking down at a map, Oak Bluffs looks like the mitten of Martha’s Vineyard, although contextually, looking at the whole Island it might occur to you that we look like the right one of two...

A constant on Oak Bluffs’ now prized Circuit avenue is the arcade; the first commercial building completed by the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company. Designed by Samuel Pratt, the unique...

You may have forgotten how blue the sky can get. Fresh paint in the hot sun smells great, unless you’re the one with the brush of course. One wonders if all the folks on their knees around town...

Jerimiah Pease’s summer of 1835 when he identified the location of our City in the Woods must have been magical. I would have liked hanging out with Lucy Vincent Smith in the summer of 1869 to...

Of 52 Island beaches only the Inkwell has been the subject and title of a movie, even though none of it was shot on the Island. Historical reports indicate that Martin Luther King Jr. swam there,...

When the Oak Bluffs Land Wharf Company built Oak Bluffs, the homes, hotels and buildings were constructed of wood, perhaps, as my father suggested, out of Loblolly pine — a fast-growing tree...