Gingerbread Cottages at Wesleyan Grove, in Oak Bluffs.
— Photo by LisaHendricks
“We were always stared at. Whenever we went outside the neighborhood that knew us, we were inspected like specimens under glass. My mother prepared us. As she marched us down our front stairs, she would say what our smiles were on tiptoe to hear, ‘Come on, children, let’s go out and drive the white folks crazy.”’
— From African-American writer Dorothy West’s (1907-1998) book The Richer, the Poorer (1995). Here, she’s remembering summering in Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard.
