Copeland character wins out

Copeland character wins out

As Lee Jackson Van Allen peered over the railing of a second-floor balcony at her family cottage on Wayland Avenue on a recent fall afternoon, she reflected on the history of the home in Oak Bluffs and the view in front of her. The park and harbor before Van Allen on that day was not so different from the landscape her mother, Doris Pope Jackson, had gazed upon when she bought the home in 1948.