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Stories by Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 3

June 1, 2016
Skip Finley

The Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company reached its demise following a period of National economic malaise and the Vineyard Grove Company was able to buy its remnants at pennies on the dollar....

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 27

May 25, 2016
Skip Finley

One bright, cloudless, Chamber of Commerce day, after making the turn off of Healey Way, after a post office stop, I couldn’t help but notice the new railing along Sea View avenue glistening in...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 20

May 18, 2016
Skip Finley

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,...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 13

May 11, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: May 6

May 4, 2016
Skip Finley

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 Town Column: April 29

April 26, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 22

April 20, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 15

April 13, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 8

April 6, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: April 1

March 30, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

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