Henry Beetle Hough, in his 1936 book “Martha’s Vineyard, Summer Resort,” listed the Island’s five most colorful, outward-facing characters of the late 19th century: a “bell ringer at the camp meeting,” “a somewhat mad woman with her hens,” “Blind Nathan Athearn from North Tisbury who went about with a green market basket calling, ‘Bananas […]
Owners of a dilapidated Oak Bluffs house are continuing to fight their case in court for approval to demolish the structure, in order to build eight affordable housing units. A May 1 ruling by a Dukes County Superior Court judge effectively upholds the project’s denial, which was made last year by the Copeland Plan District […]
A lawsuit filed last year by the owners of a historic house in Oak Bluffs against a local review board’s denial of a request to demolish their house on Uncas Ave. has been transferred from Massachusetts Land Court to Dukes County Superior Court. This comes after the title owner of the property, Robert Sawyer, filed […]
Passersby formed a small crowd at the corner of Oak Bluffs Avenue and Kennebec Avenue Tuesday morning to bear witness as an excavator demolished the Old Variety Store. The souvenir shop was built around 1870, and has been listed in the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) The building’s first documented owner, Charles S. Tallman, […]
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