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Stories by Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 17

March 16, 2017
Skip Finley

East Chop’s Chris Rowan located an interesting old postcard of a house we’re not quite sure of with a sign, Bellevue, and handwritten notes saying “Sanitarium, Oak Bluffs, Mass...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 10

March 8, 2017
Skip Finley

No one forgets the flash and fury of a fire, its fragrance not being top of mind. I remember when the Steamship Authority dock burned down in 1965 and after a prompt, I remember the acrid smell of...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 3

March 2, 2017
Skip Finley

One of the newest old things on Island is the Vineyard Gazette’s Time Machine, the online feature I’m having a ball using to identify old cool stuff. One of those is a Friday, Feb. 25,...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 24

February 23, 2017
Skip Finley

It occurs to me, at the end of black history month that the first black President’s frequent visits overshadow the many firsts accomplished by a relatively disproportionate number of black...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 17

February 15, 2017
Skip Finley

Thanks to the Methodist founding fathers of the Campground who established Oak Bluffs as a tourist resort in 1835, religion has played a large part in our history. Slavery was prohibited in...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 10

February 9, 2017
Skip Finley

Another Oak Bluffs man of moment was C.B. Powell who, born in 1894 to former slaves following his education at Howard University became the first African American X-ray specialist. He owned his own...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 3

February 1, 2017
Skip Finley

 For many years James L. Hicks, who we knew as another of the uncles of our small village, owned a home here in Oak Bluffs and like most joined his family on weekends, riding on the Daddy boat...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan. 27

January 25, 2017
Skip Finley

In December 1857 Oak Bluffs was technically still a part of Edgartown when Frederick Douglass, the acclaimed abolitionist and former slave, spoke at the Federated Church, memorialized in a story in...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan 20

January 18, 2017
Skip Finley

Somewhat frustratingly, there are several plausible stories about how Town Beach came to be called the Inkwell. Perhaps tops among them all is Dorothy West’s version that light skinned black...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan. 13

January 11, 2017
Skip Finley

The fifties-style ranch house next to the Titticut Follies Cottage on Narragansett avenue remained unnoticed as it was quietly demolished to the alarm of no one. Listed as having been built in 1880...

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