Sawatsky was a businessman from Oak Bluff, dealing in mobile homes.

And that, increasingly, is the story of Oak Bluffs.

Development on the island, along with a generational shift, is threatening the historic identity of Oak Bluffs.

And those who have moved into Oak Bluffs came largely because that is where the deals seem to be.

Her mother is a desktop publishing consultant in Oak Bluffs.

Oak Bluffs is like a fun-house mirror of the black middle class: here, the images expand, multiply, into a world.

That first morning, I walk through the town of Oak Bluffs, searching for and finding the familiar.

She is a family physician with a private practice in Oak Bluffs, a village on the island.

He was 87 years old and lived in Oak Bluffs.

She died in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts at age 90 from natural causes.