The Martha’s Vineyard Museum will focus on Prohibition in an exhibit beginning June 17 titled Island Spirits. A Prohibition-era still will be on display along with other artifacts, documents,...

With the season heralded by the Memorial Day holiday just two weeks away it’s time to begin filling in the calendar for what is already anticipated to be a busy summer. Nostalgia may be the...

Time is a luxurious concept we used to take for granted when wasting our youth. Spearfishing, blueberry picking and skipping rocks was what we used to call "Monday." Time stood still for...

Oak Bluffs’ Hiacoomes was the first “Christian Indian and Minister on Martha’s Vineyard” as attested by the Reverend Experience Mayhew (1672 – 1758). The reverend was...

Four years ago one of Oak Bluffs’s favorite citizens, Charles H. (Cee Jay) Jones was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal acknowledging the segregation of African American Marines at Montford...

There are so many reasons to be pleased with nostalgia in Oak Bluffs, not the least of which is that you’ve aged well enough, long enough (so far) to experience it. You may have noticed over...

It’s only in magical places like Oak Bluffs that one might find himself neighbors with a real Indian chief. About six columns ago I reminisced about growing up during the summer on Dukes County...

The original people of the Nunnepog tribe had called Oak Bluffs Ogkeshkuppe for thousands of years before Joseph Daggett was granted the land for his farm in 1642 when we were referred to as Farm...

It seems the founders of the Camp Ground and the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company have built a town around what many hope will become a state sanctioned Oak Bluffs Arts and Cultural District. At an...

Imagine the challenge of establishing an Oak Bluffs Cultural District. Where would one start? In a fascinating place like Oak Bluffs, is such a district a state of mind or place based? We have an...