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Stories by Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 25

March 25, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 18

March 17, 2016
Skip Finley

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...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 11

March 8, 2016
Skip Finley

Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese in the eighth century during the Tang dynasty and was used in fireworks in the year 1040. While it isn’t clear when fireworks wound up on American shores...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: March 4

March 2, 2016
Skip Finley

Last week’s Gazette Chronicle by Hilary Wall on Vineyard names made me think about the preponderance of places named by the original Oak Bluffs people. With so many of our streets derived from...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 26

February 24, 2016
Skip Finley

Certainly Sen. Edward W. Brooke (Oct. 26, 1919 to Jan. 3, 2015) was the most renowned of Oak Bluffs’s African American elected officials as the first black senator since Reconstruction....

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 19

February 17, 2016
Skip Finley

Oak Bluffs connections with black elected officials extend at least to 1881 when attorney James W. Pope became the second black person on Boston’s city council. The councilman often visited...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 12

February 10, 2016
Skip Finley

Councilman Herbert Loring Jackson’s friend and neighbor, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., was born just after him on Nov. 29, 1908 and lived until April 4, 1972. Mr. Powell was one of the more famous...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Feb. 5

February 3, 2016
Skip Finley

It’s so unlikely that Oak Bluffs, the biggest tiny town on the rock, would have made valuable contributions to black American history. With the demeaning political season underway to replace...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan. 29

January 28, 2016
Skip Finley

It’s not yet apparent that a new town hall will make the cut for voting this April despite how badly it is needed and how much will be saved by getting it done now as opposed to later. Some who...

Oak Bluffs Town Column: Jan 22

January 21, 2016
Skip Finley

The last time Oak Bluffs built a town hall was in April 1966. Abandoned in 2000 (as a town hall) it lasted 50 fewer years than the first one on Pequot avenue that became Cottagers Corner. The new...

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