Historic Tales of Oak Bluffs by Skip Finley
INDEX
1874, 69 - 72
Abbot, Lucy “Bideau” Hart 142 - 144
Abbott, George C. 50
Abolitionists 31, 34, 38, 87, 121
Adams, President John 71
Agassiz Hall 73
Agassiz, Louis 19, 73-74
Ahearn, (Blind Uncle) Nathan 105 -106
Ahoma 23
Airplanes: “$10.00 for 10 Minutes” 115
Allston, Carroll 116
Allston, Maggie 134
Allston, Phillip J. 96
Amsterdam News 129, 144 - 145, 147 - 148
Anderson, John 73
Anderson, Marian 115
Arcade, The 105 - 106
Arthur Godfrey Show
Arthur, President Chester 71
Atlantic Slipper Shell (C. fornicata)/’limpet’ 156 - 157
Automobile Arrives 93
Azores 14, 30, 91, 122, 124
Babcock, George 75
Baird, Jessie Little Doe 25
Ballou, Phoebe Moseley Adams 82
Barbary Coast 27, 36
Barmakian, Ed 101
Barnett, Etta Moten 132
Beese, Lyman 101
Berry, Hallie 99
Bird, Reverend Henry L. 136
Biscuits 80
Black Citizens 78
Black Resort 129
Blake, Chief Eric 158
Blake, Eileen
Bliss, Elmer J. 93
Block, Barbara 81
Block, Rae 81
Block, Walter 81
Blood, Hiram A. 78
Bloomberg, Mayor Michael 159
Bodfish, Eben Davis 68, 95, 118 - 119
Bodfish, Elizabeth Jewett Legg 68
Bolling Family 160 - 161
Bolling Jr., Royal 160
Bolling Sr., Royal 160
Bolling, Bruce 160
Booker, Senator Corey 139
Boston Herald 112 - 113
Bounding Billow (the), 51
Boyle, James 101
Bradley Memorial Church 90, 120, 136
Bradley, Susan Clapp 89
Bradley, William 31, 40, 41
Braun, Senator Carol Moseley 139
Brickner, Rabbi Balfour 136
Broitman, Rabbi Caryn 39
Brooke, Edwina 141
Brooke, Remi 141
Brooke, Remiga 141
Brooke, Senator Edward W. 130, 132 -134, 139-142, 145, 159
Brooks, Geraldine 158
Brown, Myron J. 116
Brownell, Henry 50
Bunny Cottage 125
Burleigh, Henry (Harry) Thacker 99, 114 - 115
Bush, President George H. W. 151
Bush, President George W. 21, 110
C’est La Vie gift shop 80
Cain, John Harry Monus John Peter Tobirus Peter Toskirus Peter Tubal (Old Harry) 29-30
Call’s Market 82
Cape May 129
Captain’s Table 157
Captains of Cottage City 39
Carpenter, Erastus Payton 40, 43, 45, 49, 50, 68, 70, 122
Carpenter, Mary Jane 60
Carter, Betsey 32
Castle Theater 111
Castro, Fidel 136
Cerberus (the) 28
Charles W. Morse, The 122
Chase, Captain John 21
Christina, The 51
City in the Woods 26, 39, 58
Claflin University 37
Claflin, William 37, 70
Clancy, Alexandra Llewellyn 132
Clancy, Tom 132
Clinton, President William 71, 126, 161
Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham 99
Cohan, Anna M. 113
Coin Diving 157
Coleman, Luella Barnett (Granny) 131
Coleman, Ralf Meshack 131
Coleman, Warren 99, 102
Coleman’s Corner 131
Collier, Reverend J.N. 51
Collins, Grafton Norton Collins 40, 42, 45, 47, 49, 50
Combra, Herb 101
Coolidge, President Calvin 71, 117, 161
Copeland, Robert Morris 34-35, 40, 44, 45, 59
Corbin, Philip 17 - 18
Corey, Henry 18, 131
Cornelia, The 122
Cornell, Katherine 104, 115
Costello, M. 78
Cottage City Herald 93
Cottage City Star 48, 74, 75, 83, 86
Cottagers (Inc.) (Corner) 81-82, 133 – 134, 153
Cousen Rose 79-80
Coutinho, Wayne 155 - 157
Coveney, Bob 126
Cromwell, Dr. Adelaide M. 130, 141
Daggett, John 23
Daggett, Joseph 23, 91
Dare, Charles 84
Darrow, Ira Darrow 40, 42, 43
Davey, William Melvin 130 - 131
Davis, Phebe A. (Norton) 41
De Lamar, Captain Joseph Raphael 93
DeBettencourt, Nelson 120
Deitz, Kenny 120
Deitz, Phyllis Clair 119
Delegate, The 137 - 138
Denniston, (Madison, Olive, Dean, Baron, Gerald Dean) 90-91
Denniston, Oscar Edward 89, 91
DePasse, Barbara Brown 132
DePasse, Suzanne 132
Dermer, Captain Thomas 20
Dexter, Mrs. P.R. 71
Diamond, The 21
Dias, Joseph 48, 80
Dickerson, Nat 102
Dickerson, Natalie 102
Dickson, Allen F. 71-72
Dickson, Lizzie C. 71
Dixie 87
Domitrovich, Katherine 153
Domitrovich, Paul 153
Douglass, Frederick 33, 35, 37, 129
Dreamland 109
Dreyfuss, Richard 112
Dufty, William 131
Dukes County Savings Bank 36, 62
Dunham, Captain Thomas 52
Dunlop, Tom 19
Dvořák, Antonín 114
Eagle Theater 111 - 112
Eagleston, Allen P. 111
Edelin, Dr. Kenneth C. 146 – 147, 152
Edgartown Lyceum 36
Edwards, Madison 89
Electricity 85
Elliott, Samuel K. 69, 71
Epanow 20
Ericsson, Leif 20
Farm Neck Golf Club 102
Finley Mildred V. 3, 15, 140
Finley, Debbie (Deborah E. Jackson) 17, 18, 39
Finley, Dr. Cheryl 83
Finley, Ewell W. 3, 15, 126
Finley, Glenn 17, 18
Fisher Island Brick Manufacturing Company 17
Fisher, Abigail Osborn 35
Fisher, Captain Jared 93
Fisher, Charlie 102
Flanders, Stephen 49, 77
Flint, John D. 65
Flying Horses 84, 108
Foster, David R. 19
Frye, George 78
Fuller, Melvin B. 116
Garrison, William 37
Gates, Jr., Dr. Henry Louis 99, 112
Gibson Jr., Truman R. 132
Gibson, Althea 138
Gibson, Isabelle 132
Gilkes, Cooper A. 109, 120
Giordano’s 70, 157
Giosmas, George 157
Girdlestone Park 108
Glacier, The 122
Godfrey, Etta 55, 108
Gold Coast 129, 157, 160
Gold Rush 36
Golf 101
Gonsalves, Manuel 131
Gonyon, Cloftus L. 65
Gosnold, Bartholomew 20
Goupee, Augusten (Augustus G. Wesley) 68-69
Grand Army of the Republic 87
Grant, Julia 71
Grant, President Ulysses S. 38, 45, 69-71, 86
Greene, Hamilton J. 118
Hand, Priscilla 116
Hardman, Della Louise Brown Taylor 155
Hardy, Will 108, 120
Harris, Senator Kamala 139
Hart, Stanley 142, 144
Hart, William H. 17, 144
Hatfield, Reverend E.H. 117
Haven, Gilbert 38, 70
Hayden, Robert 155
Henson, Josiah 34
Herald, The 112
Hiacoomes 22-23, 121, 150
Hicks, James L. 144 – 145, 147-148
Highland Beach 129
Highland House Hotel 64
Highland Property Trust 119
Hillman, Beriah T. 48-49
Hills, Joel 43, 45
Hills, William S. 40, 43
Hine, C.G. 81
Hitchcock, Edward 19
Holiday, Billie 131
Holland, Jacqueline Lois Jones 78, 82
Holmes Jr., Justice Oliver Wendell 50, 66
Holte, Clarence Leroy 154
Holy Ghost Association 91
Hough, Henry Beetle 36, 40, 71, 91, 95-96, 101, 104, 117, 135
Howard University 3, 141, 144 - 145, 161
Hoyt, J.W. 59
Hughes, Robert 101
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne 126
Hurston, Zora Neale 99
Idlewild 129
Illumination and Fireworks 70
Impey, Lillian Cotton 60
Inkwell 17, 43, 99-100, 107, 115-116, 127, 157
Island Club, The 140
Island Country Club 101 – 102, 152
Island Theater 111 112
Izett, Louisa 78
Jackson, Doris Pope 139
Jackson, Herbert Loring 132 – 133, 139
Jackson, L. Duane 152
Jarrett, Valerie 58
Jernegan, Captain Nathan 45
Jimmy’s Barbecue 79
Jimmy’s Chicken Shack 79
Johnny Seaview 127
Johnson, Celia 32
Johnson, Conrad A. 126
Johnson, Helene 99
Johnson, James Weldon 99
Johnson, Jeh Charles 146, 152
Jones, Charles H. “Cee Jay” 128 - 129
Jones, Lois Mailou 82, 99
Joseph, Emanuel 30
Karlsefne, Thorfinn 20
Katama and the Railroad 45
Katherine Cornell Theater 115
Kennedy, Joseph P. 130
Kennedy, President John F. 71, 125, 134, 161
Killing and Murder in the News 71
King Diniz 91
King Jr., Martin Luther 100, 128, 135, 147, 152
Index Cont.
Lamson, Ebenezer 35, 36, 62
Lee, Linsey 83
Lee, Robert E. 86
Lee, Spike 152
Liberator, The 37
Lincoln, Abraham 122
Linton, Edward Dobbs 36, 37
Lippman, Coco 102
Llewellyn, Jackie Brown 132
Lockhart, Al 102
Locomobile 93
Lola’s 101, 152 - 153
Lottie E. Cook, The 122
Louis, Joe 132
Lover’s Rock 52, 108
Luce, Benjamin 35
Luce, Captain Thomas 29
Luce, Hannah Norton 35
Luce, Ichabod Norton 35, 36, 48, 62
Luce, Mehitable 30
Luce, Silas 35
Luce, Tarleton Cadwallader 6, 36, 62
Lynton, Michael 112
MacMackin, Stuart 117
Malcolm X 135 - 136, 147
Marchant, Edgar 33, 34, 37, 42, 46
Marciano, Rocky 101
Margetson, Ann 15
Margetson, Desi 15
Margetson, Evan 17, 18
Margetson, Neil 17, 18
Marinelli, Linda 149
Mars, The 122
Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival 80, 153
Martha’s Vineyard African American Heritage Trail 29, 125, 131, 135, 140
Martha’s Vineyard Airport 124, 140
Martha’s Vineyard Comedy Fest 80
Martha’s Vineyard Herald 86
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital 25, 83, 120, 121, 123
Martha’s Vineyard Institute 73
Martha’s Vineyard Museum 81, 108, 115
Martha’s Vineyard National Bank 43
Martha’s Vineyard Railroad 36, 45, 47
Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club 119, 157
Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute 73
Martin, Debra Chase 112
Martin, William A. 28, 78
Mason, Perez 59
Mayflower, The 21, 27
Mayhew Jr., Thomas 22
Mayhew, Governor Thomas 21
McCullough, David 15
McDonald, Torbert Hart 125
McLennan, Fred 111 - 112
Methodism 29
Michael, Sharper 28
Midas, The 122
Monkey Man 118
Morehouse College 151 - 152
Mulligan, E.A. 93, 101
NAACP 88, 102, 123, 135-136, 139, 146, 158
Neal, Alvin 50
Nelson Family 161
Nelson Sr., DDS Stanley 161
Nelson, A’lelia 161
Nelson, Jill 158
Nelson, Stanley 161
Niantic 25
Nicholson, Bill 87
Nixon, President Richard 71, 110
Noepe 20
Noepe Theater 91
Norris, Captain Howes 75
Norris, Howes 48, 75
Norton, Captain Shubael Lyman 29, 40, 41, 43, 64
Norton, Henry Franklin 13
Norton, Ichabod 29
Norton, Samuel 29
Norton, Shubael Hawes 62, 63
Norton, Winthrop B. 82
Nunnepog 20
Country Club 101
O’Brien, Georgia 78
O’Neill, Eugene 116
Oak Bluff Township, Arkansas 161
Oak Bluff, Manitoba, Canada 161
Oak Bluffs Galop, The 55, 108
Oak Bluffs Inn 80
Oak Bluffs Land & Wharf Company 16, 31, 37, 40, 48, 50, 52, 61, 63, 64, 89, 117, 122
Oakland Mission 89
Oaks Bluff Drive, Little Rock, AR 161
Oaks Bluff, Pender Island, British Columbia
Obama, President Barack 58, 71, 110, 128, 141, 159, 161
Offshore Ale 18
Ogkeshkuppe 19, 25
Old Harry 29
Old Stone Bakery 18
Old Variety Store 112
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 99
Orlando, The 122
Othello 115
Overton, Lenwood Joseph 135 - 136
Panic of 1873 45, 47, 61
Patrick, C. Melvin 137 - 138
Pease, Jeremiah 31, 43
Pease, John Adams 72
Pease, Jr., Jeremiah 43
Perry, Oliver H. (Johnny Seaview) 127 - 128
Perry, Reverend Leroy C. ‘Ousamequin’ (Chief Yellow Feather) 120
Peters, Jane 113
Phidelah Rice School for the Spoken Word 72, 103
Phillips (Hardware) 19
Pilgrims 27
Pina, Joe 110
Pink House 60
Pleistocene Epoch 19
Pohqu-auk 23
Pollard’s Dining Hall 79
Pope Jr., Lincoln G. 138 - 139
Pope, Gloria 138
Portuguese American Club 91 - 92
Powell Jr., Adam Clayton 2, 14, 125 – 127, 129, 132, 136, 145, 147,
Powell, Cilian B. 129, 144 – 145, 147 - 148
Powell, Isabelle Geraldine Washington 99, 125 - 127
Pratt, Samuel Freeman 59-60, 65, 70
Pratt, Sonny 102
Presidential Visit 70
Prohibition 117
Prospect House 68
Pulitzer Prize 116
Pulpit Rock 3, 23, 29-30, 36, 150
Queen Isabella 91-92
Railton, Arthur 69
Rainbow, The 122
Rebello, Anthony 101
Rebello, Todd 71, 102
Reed, Eleanor 159 - 160
Reed, Philip H. 159 - 160
Reid, Alexander 68
Reid’s Hotel 68, 108
Reliable Grocery Store (Market) 19
Revels, Hiram Rhodes 37
Rice, Elizabeth 103
Rice, Phidelah 103
Rice, Ralph Huntington 72
Riggs, Bert 113
Roane, Reverend William B. 136
Robertson, Emily 102 – 103
Robeson, Paul 115
Robinson, Walter 144
Rocker, Eunice C. 83
Roe v. Wade 146
Roosevelt, First Lady Eleanor 132
Roosevelt, President Franklin Delano 132
Rural Improvement Society 80
Sag Harbor 129
Sands (De Lamar), Nellie 92
Saunders, John 23, 29, 78, 150
Saunders, Priscilla 29
Sayeed, Dr. Sarah 39
Scott, Ariel 93
Sea View House 65 – 67
Seaton, Robert 29
Seaview, Johnny (Oliver H. Perry) 127-128
Secession 44
Secession: 1880 77
Second Story Cinema 109
Sengekontacket Country Club 102
Shearer Cottage 97, 115
Shearer, Charles 97
Shearer, Henrietta 97
Shelley v. Kraemer 132
Simon, Anne 13
Smadbeck, Arthur 148
Smadbeck, Justine Tyrell Priestly (Gertrude Wilson) 147
Smith, Caleb 72
Smith, Captain George A. 56
Smith, Clara 72, 104
Smith, Lucy Vincent 55
Smith, Mrs. Anthony 78
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 97, 125, 138
Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain 85
Spencer, Jean Van Vliet 60
Sprague, Colonel Homer B. 73
Stevens, John 122
Stone, John 25
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 34
Strahan, Charles 85 – 88
Streit, Reverend John P. 87
Sullivan, Dr. Louis 100, 151 - 152
Swanson House 130 - 132
Swanson, Gloria May Josephine 130 -131
Sylvia, Joseph August 101, 124
Tabernacle 136
Talbot, Governor George Thomas 77
Tallman, ‘Shipwrecked’ Charles 51, 112
Taylor, Robert 58
Till, Emmett 145
Titticut Follies 88
Tivoli Ballroom 108 – 109, 111
Tivoli Gardens 108
Tivoli Girl 120
Towanquattick 121
Town Hall: 1882 81
Tracy, Harold (“Jan Thomas”) 72
Truman, President Harry 110
Tucker, Judge Herbert Edward 134
Twin Cottage 115
Underground Railroad 129
Van Allen, Lee Jackson 133
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin 81, 85
Vera, Frank 122 - 123
Vera, Joseph Sequeira 122 - 124
Vincent, Reverend Hebron 33
Vineyard Grove Company 64, 73, 119
Vineyard Skating Rink 108
Vineyard Trust 61
Vineyard Voices 83
Vinson, John N. 71-72
Vitascope Hall 111
Volstead Act 117
Walker, Madame C.J. 161
Wall, Kelvin 145
Walter Scott, The 35
Walton, Jocelyn Coleman 131
Wampanoag 20, 22
Washington, Booker T. 58
Washington, Richard 157
Weicker, Senator Lowell 141
Weiss, Ellen 58
Welles, Anita 60
Welles, Jack 60
Wesley House 68
Wesley, Augustus G. (Augusten Goupee) 65, 68-69
Wesley, John 68
West, Dorothy 82, 97 – 101, 125, 127, 133, 151
West, Isaac 99
West, Rachel 99
Western Union 80
White, Liz Pope 139
Whitefield, Reverend Henry 22
Wilkins, Roy 136
Williams, Dr. Daniel Hale 129
Wilson Jr., Dr. John 152
Wilson, Dave 86
Wilson, Gertrude (Justine Tyrell Priestly Smadbeck) 147
Wilson, Vice President Henry 69
Winfrey, Oprah 99
Winslow, Edward 21
Winslow, Sam 108
Wolfson, C.K. 142
Woman in Red, The 92
Women’s Christian Temperance Union 117
Woods Hole Institute 73
Wormsley, Ambler 79, 119-120
WPA Theater Project 131
Wright, Father John F. 34