11:15 pm, July 21, 2015
Oak Bluffs’ legacy as a religious retreat may have started when Jeremiah Pease helped found our city in the woods in 1835 for the Methodists, but the religious tolerance and freedom we enjoy has a typically ironic legacy. In 1641 King Charles’ conflicting religious antics had caused many of his subjects to flee, some of whom landed at Great Harbor (the town we know today as Edgartown).