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The Illumination

The Vineyard Gazette | Friday, August 20 1869 - 12:30pm

The readers of the Gazette will please bear with us this week for the lack of extended news of local affairs. We are publishing the Camp Meeting Herald, daily and it occupies so much of time and labor that we are unable to pay that degree of attention to the Gazette as is our custom. We reproduce a number of articles from the Herald, which are well worth reading.

Camp Meeting History

Illumination Night

Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association

Camp Meeting Association Sues Oak Bluffs Planning Board

Aidan Pollard

The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association has sued the Oak Bluffs planning board, seeking to reverse a set of conditions the board attached to the recent approval of a building addition and roof replacement at the Tabernacle.

A Community Rediscovered: Black History in the Oak Bluffs Campground

Louisa Hufstader

Black and Wampanoag peoplewere among the earliest seasonal residents of the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, according to research by association president Andrew Patch.

Uncovering Hard Truths for Community of Color Legacy

Aidan Pollard

The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association in Oak Bluffs began in 1835 as a small community of like-minded men from Edgartown.

Gingerbread Cottage Tour

The six cottages on this year’s Gingerbread Cottage Tour all retain a number of their original features, however their addresses have changed.

Grand Illumination Tonight

Julia Wells

At sundown the gingerbread houses of the Camp Ground will glow with the light of thousands of lanterns, part of a summertime tradition in Oak Bluffs.

One Hundred Fifty Years of Keeping the Camp Meeting Faith

Steve Myrick

One hundred fifty years ago this year, by an act of the Massachusetts legislature, the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association was incorporated to manage what had become one of the largest camp meetings in New England.