Photo Gallery — Skip Finley

Musician, James Brown & Adrienne Rodriguez

They told Skip he could quit his day job - Skip Barber Racing

Model/Actress, Deirdre Lorenz - Key Biscayne, FL

Model/Actress, Deirdre Lorenz - The Plaza, NY

NBC Commentator, Natalie Morales - SNL Studio, NY

Veteran Host/Civil Rights Activist, ‘The Black Eagle’ Joe Madison

Skip and wife Karen with Bill & Hilary Clinton

Francis McDonald, President of Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Musician, Ronald Isley of The Isley Brothers

Jane Seagrave, Publisher Vineyard Gazette Media Group - Juneteenth at the Amistad

Composer, John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws, and more)

Karen Finley, Heather Smulyan, Skip, Jeff Smulyan, Peter Smythe & Michael Schulder

Whaling Captains of Color featured at the Nantucket Book Festival 2022

Alessandra Hagerty and Skip at the New England Coastal Creative Conference

Whaling Captains of Color featured at Barnes and Noble, Hyannis.....pride of place.

Skip signing books at the New England Coastal Creative Conference

Guild Hall of East Hampton - Gather: Conversations Led by Black & Indigenous Change-makers 7/18/21

Martha’s Vineyard Museum Curator Bonnie Stacy receiving a gift of a painting of Captain Joseph Belain from artist Elizabeth Whelan and Skip Finley.

On the bookshelf at the Martha’s Vineyard museum

Book signing at Cousen Rose, August 2019

Conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH): Connecting the Global and Local: The Sea and Maritime Cities – Skip Finley presentation of Whaling Captains of Color – America’s First Meritocracy

Eric Jay Dolin, author of Leviathan - The History of Whaling in America Oak Bluffs Library, 9/29/18

Skip with Lamont Thomas, author of Rise To Be A People – A Biography of Paul Cuffe at the dedication of the Paul Cuffe Park, New Bedford Whaling Museum 9/21/18.

Skip with Museum of African American History Executive Director, Marita Rivero at the Annual Spriggs Lecture on Nantucket at the African Meeting House.

Skip with Frances Karttunnen, Nantucket author & historian at the Annual Spriggs Lecture on Nantucket at the African Meeting House

Skip & his wife, Karen, with Marita Rivero, Executive Director, Museum of African American History Boston/Nantucket. For the Annual Spriggs Lecture on Nantucket at the African Meeting House.

Skip and author, Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Skip and Philip Hoare, author of bestselling book, The Whale - In Search of the Giants of the Sea

Captain Bill Pinkney - first black person to circumnavigate the world and Skip.

Captain Pinckney, Michelle V. Agins; Pulitzer Prize, National association of Black Journalist winner, 34 year photographer for The New York Times who chronicled Capt. Pinkneys trip, and Skip.

Skip and L'Merchie Frazier, Director of Education & Interpretation, Museum of African American History Boston/Nantucket

Skip viewing A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling  Voyage Around the World, an exhibit of the New Bedford Whaling Museum from July – October 2018. Created by Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington in 1848 it depicts a whale trip Russell took from 1841 – 1945. The restored, tempura on cotton work is 1275’ long and believed to be the world’s longest painting. — Skip viewing A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Around the World, an exhibit of the New Bedford Whaling Museum from July – October 2018. Created by Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington in 1848 it depicts a whale trip Russell took from 1841 – 1945. The restored, tempura on cotton work is 1275’ long and believed to be the world’s longest painting.

Jeanna Shepard’s photo of Captain Martin’s Grave

Renee Balter, pictured here with Skip Finley, helped create Cottage City Historic District, the Oak Bluffs Association, and Martha's Vineyard Center for the Visual Arts. - Photo Credit: Ray Ewing

Afro American Historical & Genealogical Society Award

Skip and Karen with their daughter, Kristin and granddaughters at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum Medal Honors ceremony. Photo Courtesy Martha's Vineyard Museum — Skip and Karen with their daughter, Kristin and granddaughters at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum Medal Honors ceremony.
*Photo* *Courtesy Martha's Vineyard Museum*

Award Winning Filmmaker, Stanley Nelson and Skip at Cousen Rose Gallery in Oak Bluffs. Photo by Michael Johnson — Award Winning Filmmaker, Stanley Nelson and Skip at Cousen Rose Gallery in Oak Bluffs.
Photo by Michael Johnson

Sam Sifton, Founding Editor, New York Times Cooking Photo by: Jeanna Shepard — Sam Sifton, Founding Editor, New York Times Cooking
*Photo by: Jeanna Shepard*

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