Oak Bluffs Town Column: June 10

The widely heralded Dorothy West wrote this column from 1967, when it was called Cottager’s Corner, to 1993 (the column’s name was changed to Oak Bluffs in 1973). Her writing graced us with pure literature each week, often laced with humor, common sense and care.

Ms. West was part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and whose members visited the Island including Lois Mailou Jones, Helene Johnson, Harry T. Burleigh, Warren Coleman, James Weldon Johnson, Isabelle Powell and others.