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September 6, 1957

The Cottagers Club Has Been Active in Charity

Vineyard Gazette
The Cottagers Club, a charitable organization now well entrenched in its second active year, held its final meeting of the season at the home of Mrs.
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October 25, 1968

Cottagers Acquire an Old Town Hall and Many Annals of Old Cottage City and Oak Bluffs

Dorothy West
On Aug. 26, 1869, the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company, an energetic corporation which had bought up acres of the lovely woods and meadows and shore front stretches of what is now Oak Bluffs, sold one of those lots, 69 Pequot avenue, to Lydia B. Smith of New Bedford.
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Dorothy West
Oak Bluffs town hall
Historic buildings
August 4, 2006

Creating a Community: 50 Years of Good Works, Good Friends

James Kinsella
From their earliest days, they did good works, and had fun doing them. The first money they raised, from an informal series of summer square dances, went to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
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2022

February 14, 2022

Cottagers Join Harbor Homes in Homelessness Cause

Louisa Hufstader
Harbor Homes
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Island women escaping homelessness have a powerful new ally in the Cottagers, Inc., the all-female philanthropic group based in Oak Bluffs.

2019

July 11, 2019

Beautiful Homes for a Good Cause at Cottagers Tour

David Lott
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The 36th edition of the Cottagers’ annual house tour has something for everyone—something old, something new and something green.

2018

July 18, 2018

Cottagers Women, Keen of Heart

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From the Cottager’s Corner columns in the July 1972 editions of the Vineyard Gazette by Dorothy West: The Cottagers are now in summer assembly. This diversified group of women, some older and maybe wiser than others, some younger and maybe more keen of heart, are again making an investment of their time and talents at Cottagers’ Corner on Pequot avenue in Oak Bluffs, the center of their commitments.
July 12, 2018

Cottagers House Tour Is Also Neighborhood History Lesson

David Lott
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The Cottagers’ 35th Annual House Tour takes place on Thursday, July 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

2017

July 13, 2017

Oak Bluffs Cottagers' Tour Is Front Porch to History

David Lott
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Oak Bluffs history

Who needs the History Channel when you’ve got the Cottagers’ 34th Annual House Tour? This year’s event takes place Thursday, July 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

2016

August 16, 2016

On Cottagers Sunday, Emilie Townes Turns Up the Heat in the Pulpit

Mike Kotsopoulos
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The Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes preached to a capacity crowd at Union Chapel during the Cottagers of Martha’s Vineyard’s 60th anniversary Sunday service. Her sermon instructed her audience to trust their own definition of wholesomeness.

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