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Stories by Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs Town Column: August 5

August 4, 2016
Skip Finley

A publication titled This Week in Oak Bluffs for the week of August 10, 1930 was not too different with our times today. In a story of his childhood summer, Edward J. Teran included the line “...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: July 29

July 28, 2016
Skip Finley

In 1787 John Saunders, a former slave, brought Methodism to the Island and preached to the original and other people of color at Pecoy Point’s Pulpit Rock. Ironically, Hebron Vincent (a leading...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: July 22

July 20, 2016
Skip Finley

The Oak Bluffs’ Island Theatre is perhaps the fourth or fifth oldest movie theatre in America and the odds are that the owners will be forced to tear it down this fall due to its unsafe (and...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: July 15

July 14, 2016
Skip Finley

As the first from the Azores to arrive on the Vineyard, Emanuel Joseph (he married Mehitable Luce here in 1796) helped establish a long tradition of service, especially here in the town of Oak Bluffs...

From War Ships of the Past to Educational Beauties of Today

July 7, 2016
Skip Finley

The Shenandoah and Alabama were anchored just south of Harthaven one recent muggy, overcast morning and it struck me how innocent they looked, filled with Island school children aboard an overnight...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: July 8

July 7, 2016
Skip Finley

Joseph Chase Allen wrote in the Vineyard Gazette on June 19, 1953 that Oak Bluffs was once an island with an ancient passage from the head of Deep Bottom Pond to the head of the Lagoon. Lagoon Pond,...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: July 1

June 29, 2016
Skip Finley

The Oak Bluffs founding Land and Wharf Company did the job so well in building the fledgling new town that by 1877 Oak Bluffs had become widely thought of as Martha’s Vineyard. That’s why...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 24

June 22, 2016
Skip Finley

On a frigid day in January 1866, Charles S. Tallman became the sole survivor of the wreck of the schooner Christiana off of Cape Pogue during a vicious nor'easter. Although the masts of the boat...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 17

June 15, 2016
Skip Finley

Isabel Geraldine Washington Powell (5/23/1908 – 5/1/2007) of Oak Bluffs would have been 99 years old had she lived until her birthday the year she died. Much has been written about her husband...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 10

June 8, 2016
Skip Finley

The widely heralded Dorothy West wrote this column from 1967, when it was called Cottager’s Corner, to 1993 (the column’s name was changed to Oak Bluffs in 1973). Her writing graced us...

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