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Hundred Years of the Camp Meeting History Filled with Countless Episodes

Vineyard Gazette | Friday, August 23 1935 - 9:36am

The hundred years of the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting are filled with countless episodes which link the Island with the great figures or great events of other periods; or reflect in some colorful way the atmosphere and manners of the times; or supply in their own right some flavorsome item of history.

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Preservation Society Launches Effort to Buy Flying Horses

Vineyard Gazette

The Martha’s Vineyard Historical Preservation Society Inc. this week formally announced the launching of its campaign to raise $740,000 by Dec.

A Fond Adieu to Darling’s of Oak Bluffs Where Popcorn Was Pure Island Magic

Oak Bluffs Camp Ground Makes Register

Vineyard Gazette

The Camp Ground at Oak Bluffs is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Michael J.

Fond Memories of a Black Childhood: Oak Bluffs Had Band Concerts, Lemonade, Cookies and Whist

We were always stared at. Whenever we went outside the neighborhood that knew us, we were inspected like specimens under glass.

The Early Days of the Chapel on the Bluffs

Mabel Gillespie

Oak Bluffs Wharf is Kindled into Destructive Fire

Joseph Chase Allen

A spectacular blaze, the cause of which is not definitely determined, destroyed the freight she and outer end of the Oak Bluffs steamboat wharf l