The Oak Bluffs fireworks have been postponed. —Lexi Pline

Two of the Islands most anticipated end-of-summer evening events have been rescheduled due to residual impacts on the Island from Hurricane Erin. 

The Town of Oak Bluffs announced on Tuesday that its annual end-of-summer fireworks will be pushed to Saturday and the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Association announced that Grand Illumination Night has been postponed to Thursday. 

Originally scheduled for Friday, the Oak Bluffs fireworks will now be held at Ocean Park on its rain date of Saturday, August 23, with the remnants of Hurricane Erin passing through the area Friday. Grand Illumination Night at the gingerbread cottages in Oak Bluffs is rescheduled for it’s rain date of Thursday, August 21. Edgartown’s forecast for Thursday evening is currently clear. 

The town also stated that Vineyard Transit Authority buses will be operating at the intersections of Tuckernuck and Seaview avenues and at Dukes County and New York avenues. 

“There will be various detours and traffic delays before, during, and after the fireworks, so please be patient and considerate!” a town email reads. 

Steamship Authority communications director Sean Driscoll told The Times that the last two trip diversions planned for the fireworks will also be moved to Saturday. The following trips to and from Oak Bluffs will be diverted to Vineyard Haven: the 6:30 pm departure from Woods Hole, the 7:30 pm return trip aboard the passenger ferry Nantucket, the 7:30 pm departure from Woods Hole, and the 8:30 pm return trip aboard the passenger ferry Martha’s Vineyard.

Parking will be available at Waban Alley Park and Washington Park for $20, cash only, benefitting the parks and fireworks donation accounts. For more information, visit https://www.oakbluffsma.gov/485/OAK-BLUFFS-FIREWORKS.

One reply on “Illumination night, fireworks postponed”

  1. I used to love going down to Ocean Park ( I never liked or approved of fireworks) to see the mesmerized Hurd on there blankets in the park, just to see the stampede if rats from the beneath the seawall, rocks and drain – storming across the park
    I once caught one in the spokes of me cycle!

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