The Mariposa Museum was bustling with activity Friday afternoon. Children surrounded a table littered with scissors, beads, yarn, and other art equipment, focused on making magic wands from the available objects. In the back room, siblings Soumaya and Sidney Lima drew in sketchbooks, while the “Arthur” episode “George Scraps His Sculpture” played on a nearby […]
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The pipe organ at Union Chapel was built in 1924 and was recently completely refurbished. Courtesy Bill Peek
The organ before it was restored can be seen here when the Myrtle Baptist Youth Choir peformed at the Union Chapel. Natasha Anna Petrakova
A photo of Union Chapel from 1942. Courtesy M.V. Museum
The Union Chapel today, which sits at the top of Circuit Ave. in Oak Bluffs. Jeanna Shepard
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, host of “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” addresses the congregation gathered at Union Chapel. Caroline Brehman
The Rev. Howard-John Wesley, pastor of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., preaching at Union Chapel. Jeanna Shepard
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Vineyard summer resident Henry Louis ( Skip ) Gates Jr. has published a new book, The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. Sam Moore
Oak Bluffs summer resident Henry Louis (“Skip”) Gates Jr. has been filling in the blanks of our national race consciousness for decades. Gates, a Harvard professor, has authored 22 books and co-authored 13 others on Black life and racial divides in America. His latest, “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” is extraordinary, a taut, nonfiction thriller.
“The Black Church” is essentially a secular book concerned with the role of Black churches in nurturing daily lives and providing hope, first to African American slaves, then to their descendants in a “free” America.