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On August 4, the DeCicco family of Bourne announced that the land they own located on the Cape side of the Bourne Bridge will again be known as Bourne Village Heights, the highest parcel of land in Bourne Village. In 1963 the Family purchased the 152 acres and adjoining motel “the Panorama Motor Lodge and a horse barn later to become the “Way Station” night club. The DeCicco family had held the properties under the company umbrella “Bourne Village Heights Inc. Longtime Upper Cape residents may recall Panorama Fair Grounds for the Circuses, Carnivals, Horse shows, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and many other community events including Dirt Bike, ATV events and Paintball held on the half-mile horse race track and wooded land adjacent to the Bourne Water Tower, the DeCicco have never charged any group who wanted to use their land to do something good for our town.

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USO couple

Photo 1 of 2 | View Enlarged Photo see picture in aa falmouth Jane and Edward DeGagne Pair met at the opening night of the Falmouth USO, where one dance led to a lifetime together. Cape Cod Times/Merrily Lunsford September 23, 2007 BOURNE — Ask Jane DeGagne when she first met her husband and round brown eyes begin to sparkle behind thick lenses. A dreamy smile appears on her face. At age 90, the spark is still there for Jane and her husband, Edward. Related Stories WWII stories lost, but not forgotten "We met at the Falmouth USO just before he shipped overseas," she said. Born in Wareham and raised in Bourne, Jane DeGagne was one of dozens of young Cape women who volunteered at the USOs scattered about the Cape, built at the start of World War II as places homesick young GIs could go for some innocent companionship and entertainment. "We had dances some nights. We played cards other nights. And there was a soda fountain where you could get a cup of coffee and maybe a little food," she recalled. Falmouth and Bourne began building their USOs at about the same time, but Falmouth finished first, a building where the Gus Canty building now stands. So Jane and her friends decided to go there for a dance one evening. "Life was different then," she said. "There was still a lot of innocence." When they arrived, there were few people there. A live band played at one end of the hall. No sooner had the girls shed their coats than a soldier came up and asked Jane to dance. "Would I ever," Jane recalled, laughing. "This tall, handsome GI. My knight in shining armor." Edward DeGagne was a tall, slender young man raised in Westford, a small town near Ayer. He took one look at Jane — who was taller than most of her friends — and decided she was the perfect dance partner. They danced. They danced some more. Another girl "tagged in to take my place," said Jane, frowning even now at the memory some 64 years later. "I let her have that dance, then I tagged back in. She came up a little while later and tapped my shoulder but we ignored her and danced over to another corner of the floor and danced the rest of the night together." The two were smitten, but Jane does not call it was "love at first sight." "Ed came to visit me not long afterwards. He and a friend walked from Camp Edwards to Bourne where I lived with my parents. It was a frigid night. There was snow. But they walked all that way." Before leaving, he promised to call her. But that call never came. A few days later, as she was working in the Buzzards Bay bank, across from the railroad station, "I heard one of the troop trains pulling out. I knew Ed was on it. Can't tell you how, but I just knew," she said. Over the next few years Jane continued to work in the bank and volunteer at the USO where she met "a lot of interesting young men from all over the country. I probably would not have met so many interesting people except for that." "During the war years, there weren't any men around except for those young soldiers, old men and young boys. All the fellows we knew went off to war," she said. "And once the fellows from the base shipped out, you just never saw any young men around." She and Ed exchanged mail intermittently over the next four years. "I didn't have any expectations," she said. "I hadn't met anyone like him, that's true. But marriage wasn't on my mind then, least not that I was aware of. Ed went out with women over there. I know that. But as he later told me, he was determined to come back and marry an American girl, one particular American girl." Ed served as a surgical assistant and was posted first in Iceland and then later in England for the duration of the war. But not long after the war ended, Ed called. "He wanted to see me, but he wouldn't come down until he had a new suit. He ordered a new suit and I had to wait until it arrived for him to visit," Jane said. "Finally that new suit arrived and so did Ed." They married a few months later. "I met a lot of nice young men during the war. But none of them were like Ed." she said. "I think with Ed and me, well our spirits just melded that first time and it's been the same ever since.

Filenes

But the Filene brothers were also known for their adeptness at opening branch stores, including one in Falmouth in 1920, Providence in 1922 and Hyannis in 1923. “The store on Queen's Buyway went year-round at Christmas 1940. They had to winterize (the circa 1925 Cape Cod building). With soldiers coming to Camp Edwards (the East Coast's largest World War II mobilization base), there were such limited shopping availabilities,” Lisicky says. Post-war, the Falmouth Filene's closed in 1947 and business transferred to the Hyannis store, which had opened year-round in 1943 and remained open until Filene's moved to Cape Cod Mall when it o

airplane house

pics aaa new photos x Mike Crew mike.crew@gmail.com Oct 13 (3 days ago) to me oods Hole's architectural marvel Text Size: A | A | A Print this Article Email this ArticleShareThis Buy This Photo Photo 1 of 6 | View Enlarged Photo Max Burger sits in the circular living room of the Airplane House, a Woods Hole landmark on Juniper Point overlooking Vineyard Sound that he has owned since 1978. The Prairie School-style house was built almost 100 years ago and is considered one of the greatest works of architects William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie. Cape Cod Times By PAUL NEEDHAM paul.e.needham@gmail.com August 16, 2009 WOODS HOLE — A few minutes before the Steamship Authority ferry arrives at its dock here, those passengers who choose to stand on its starboard side for the voyage from Martha's Vineyard are rewarded with a one-two punch of sorts. Just after they see Nobska Lighthouse, one of Cape Cod's most storied attractions, they see one of the area's most revered buildings: the Airplane House. As airplanes go, the house looks more like something that the Wright brothers would have flown than a jumbo jet. It is a low but wide wooden structure that sits, almost ready to take off, on the end of Juniper Point. It is as much a part of Woods Hole Passage as the ferries. And that's because, while the house is built of wood and has a shingled roof, it has almost nothing else in common with other homes on the Cape. Designed by architects William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie in 1911 or 1912, the house is an important example of Prairie School architecture and is widely considered among Purcell and Elmslie's best work. Had the original owners had their way, though, the house would have been nothing more than a prefabricated cabin. When Charles Crane, a philanthropist who would go on to be ambassador to China, first met with Purcell to discuss the project, he asked for a $600 "portable house" to be built in Woods Hole for his daughter and son-in-law. As they talked about the project, though, it became clear that the family would require more space than such a house could provide. And so, according to an account he published several decades later, Purcell returned to his office, where Elmslie told him, "Leave that to me. I know just what they want." Indeed he did. The architects presented Crane with three proposals — everyone agreed that the third plan was the best and few changes were ordered. The construction was finished in just six months, at a cost of $30,000. The house stayed in the family until 1948. Its current owner, Max Burger, purchased the property in 1978. At that time, Burger said in an interview, the house was "in absolute shambles." During the '60s, Burger said, "all the drugs were here." Cigarettes were put out on the semi-circular living room's oak floors. "Not one window which was closed could be opened," he said, "and not one window which was opened could be closed." So Burger, who once taught at Princeton University and is now a professor of biochemistry at the University of Basel in Switzerland, set off to restore the house. Over the years, he's had a new roof installed and storm windows built. He consulted with a Harvard professor to determine the house's shingles are Southern cyprus. Periodically, he has new shingles put on the house that match the original ones. Burger spent years designing a new sectional sofa for the living room, made of some 2,540 pieces of oak and built to look like it could have been designed by Purcell and Elmslie or even the great Prairie School architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. "It's been great fun," Burger said as he recounted the hours he spent working with artists to restore the home's signature stained glass windows. Burger said his one "crime" against the house was a bathroom he added on the second floor. Still, not much has changed in the seven-bedroom home. The Steinway piano on the first floor is thought to be the same one that was there when the construction finished nearly a century ago. It's still tough to tell which door is the front door, since there are four entrances that are each somewhat hidden. And, most important, the house still has incomparable views from Nobska Light to Woods Hole, punctuated by the ferry traffic that passes the house all day. The home is occasionally available for rent, at a charge of $15,000 per week. But, for the most part, the house is Burger's. And he plans to keep it that way, with a trust set up so it will stay in the family after his death. 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nimrod history

HMS Nimrod, the Scourge of Buzzards Bay "Nimrod" has little meaning for most of us in these secular times, but the name of the legendary biblical hunter and Mesopotamian tyrant was once considered fitting for a fast sailing warship. There have been six ships in the British Royal Navy with this name, but the second of these Nimrods is of particular interest this Memorial Day weekend as I sit overlooking the sparkling waters of Buzzards Bay. From this vantage point in June of 1814, I might have seen HMS Nimrod launching her boats to burn the shipping in Wareham. This HMS Nimrod was a new warship, a Cruizer Clas brig-sloop mounting 18 guns and launched on May 25th, 1812. Over 100 brig-sloops of this design were made during the Napoleonic Wars, but in 1814 Bonaparte was in exile and the British were free to give their attention to the war in North America. The coast of New England was soon dominated by the British navy. Two frigates at Provincetown owned Cape Cod Bay, and the British maintained an anchorage on Naushon Island's Tarpaulin Cove, long a refuge for smugglers and freebooters. From this base, Captain Vincent Newton and HMS Nimrod patrolled Nantucket and Vineyard sounds as well as Buzzards Bay as part of a squadron lead by Commander Paget of the HMS Superb, a 74 gun third rate ship of the line. Some of the towns on the shore paid the British to spare their property - Nantucket chose neutrality over blockade and starvation - but others like Falmouth at the head of Buzzard's Bay defied the British and received 300 cannonballs worth of broadsides from the Nimrod for their trouble. Aside from the local militia and a few field pieces, the only defense available for the Bay towns were two Jefferson gunboats based in New Bedford. There were shallow draft vessels, 50 feet long and 18 feet wide, with about twenty crew and 2 or three heavy guns. They were utterly outclassed in men and armament by Nimrod, and the gunboats were reduced to hiding in the Acushnet River rather than taking on the British. The raid on Wareham took place on June 13, 1814. The town was a likely target of opportunity as a center of shipbuilding, iron, and leather manufacturing, and there was even a cotton factory. A number of vessels from Falmouth had taken refuge in the Wareham River at the head of the Bay and there were no fortifications besides the shallow waters of the bay to prevent attack. On the 13th of June, Nimrod took some of Superb's barges and impressing local navigators made her way up the Bay. At 10 O'Clock with a flood tide and fair wind, the Nimrod anchored in the vicinity of Bird Island, about 6 miles from Wareham. Six barges were promptly manned with 220 sailors and marines. Hoisting their lateen sails and shipping their oars, they proceeded two abreast toward Wareham. The town had warning - Ebenezer Bourne sailed ahead of the British when he spotted them off Mattapoisett and cut overland across the next to alert the selectmen. The militia, however, had only just begun to muster when they were told not to oppose the British because a treaty had been negotiated with the raiders to spare private property. A history of the Town from 1867 describes the events of the raid in detail; The British came to the turn of the channel---here set a white flag, and proceeded to the lower wharf, where the marines land­ed---being about 200 in number---paraded on the wharf, and set a sen­tinel upon the high land back of the village, with orders to let no citi­zen pass from the village;---and about this time, [William] Fearing and [Jonathan] Reed approached the enemy with a white handkerchief upon a cane, and made the treaty aforesaid. The enemy then marched up the street, de­taching sentries upon the high land, at convenient distances, until they arrived at the Cotton Factory. This, they set on fire by shooting a Congreve rocket into a post in. the middle of the first story, and re­turned, taking the arms and powder at Capt. Bumpus' house, and threatened to burn the house, if the town stores were not surrendered, which they thought were there. "About this time, four schooners belonging to Falmouth, and one be­longing to Plymouth, which had put into this port, for safety, were set on fire by the men left with the barges;—these, and the Factory, as they asserted, not being private property. As they passed up, they called at Wm. Fearing's store, took something to drink, and went into his kitchen, took a brand of fire, and proceeded to his ship-yard, im­mediately in front of his house, and here set fire to a new brig, nearly finished, upon the stocks, belonging to said Fearing, he remonstrating and reminding them of their treaty, but they asserting that she was built for a privateer, put her well on fire, so that she burnt to ashes. They fired also a ship and brig lying at the wharf, and five sloops, all of which, as well as the Cotton Factory, were put out. Six vessels were not set on fire. They next took twelve men as hostages, to pre­vent our citizens from firing upon them---and hoisting a white flag, and saying if a gun was fired the hostages would be massacred, embarked., having tarried on shore about two hours. About this time, Capt. Is­rael Fearing assembled 12 men on the opposite side of the Narrows, and showed fight. One of the barges dropped over that way, and the Narrows citizens begged him not to fire, as a treaty had been made and hostages taken to insure its performance---whereupon he fell back, to watch their further movements, kept his men assembled, but, as the hostages were not given up until they passed below him, he did not fire, and the enemy departed in peace, landing our citizens on Cromeset Point. The barges formed a line, fired a Congreve rocket into the air, fired a swivel from the bow of each barge, gave three cheers, and proceeded leisurely to the brig..." The damage done in Wareham was more than $20,000, comparable to nearly $1 million today. The ships burned "were identified as the Fair Trader, 444 tons, pierced for eighteen 12-pounders and the brig Independent, 300 tons, pierced for 14 guns and on the stocks ready for launching. The schooners Fancy, Elizabeth and Nancy, all of Falmouth, were also brand new. The value of the cotton factory was estimated at half a million dollars." Nimrod did not get away completely unscathed. Passing through Quick's Hole at low water about midday the day after the raid, she struck the shore by North Rock on the northeastern part of Nashawena Island, according to a site maintained by the Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project: "14th June At 5 Weighed— running towards Quick’s Hole. At 11:30 hawled up for the Hole. At 12:30 observed the Brig [Nimrod] to strike the shore. Shortened and furled the sails. Employed getting anchor out astern to Heave her off. Boat from Superb came to our assistance. Got out several of the Guns and Shot. At 3:30 Hove her off & anchored with the Small Bower. At 6 Weighed and stood towards the Superb. At 7:30 anchored off Gay Head." This bit of detail from Nimrod's own log is a significant piece of information , because tradition had the Nimrod grounding farther up the bay off Round Hill and jettisoning cannon to lighten the ship. In fact, a number of 3 pound cannons were discovered in the 1980s at this spot and have been attributed to the Nimrod, but a convincing case is made here these were from an older ship and not the Nimrod. Nimrod would likely have offloaded some of her armament of heavy carronades at Quick's Hole into the boat sent to her aid by Superb rather than pitching them overboard. The cannons that were found in the bay by the late Henry W. Kendall and David W. Schloerb were part of the Kendall Whaling Museum's collection until that institution merged with the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Three of the cannon were awarded to towns impacted by the Nimrod. Falmouth and Wareham each got one, stored in an alkaline bath of fresh water and sodium carbonate to reverse the ionization of the iron and stabilize the metal for later display. Whether or not they came from the Nimrod, they are truly one of the treasures of the Bay. HMS Nimrod continued to raid off Rhode Island that summer. She was wrecked on a rock off the coast of Wales in 1827, salvaged, and sold out of naval service. Wareham now has a condominium and yacht club called "British Landing."

oddfellows history

ODD FELLOWS IN FALMOUTH Odd Fellowship in Falmouth began in 1849 with the chartering of Suckanessett Lodge #135. The records on this lodge are lacking. It apparently surrendered its charter in the late 1800’s. The tombstones of some of its members are evident in Oak Grove Cemetery. Later, a group of men dedicated to the principles of Friendship, Love, and Truth desired to revive Odd Fellowship in the town. James B. Barnes Lodge #10 was duly instituted on February 23, 1920, under the leadership of Karl A. BOHAKER, Noble Grand, and Benjamin F. BERRY, Vice Grand. The Lodge is named for James B. Barnes, the father of Odd Fellowship in Massachusetts. Bro. BARNES was an Odd Fellow in England, but found no formal organization in Massachusetts when he arrived in 1817. After meeting informally with a few other immigrant Odd Fellows from 1818-1820, they became sufficient in numbers so as to organize Massachusetts Lodge #1 in Boston in March 1820. Bro. Barnes was the first Noble Grand of that Lodge. The Odd Fellows Hall in Falmouth is an interesting and historical building. It was built in 1856 as District School #3, commonly known as the town grammar school. The first schoolmaster was Benjamin R. Gifford of Woods Hole. At this time, the school fronted on Main Street near the present insurance office. By the 1890’s, there were sufficient students so that the intermediate grades (3-5) were held downstairs and the grammar school grades (6-8) were upstairs. Katharine Lee Bates, Falmouth resident and author of “America the Beautiful”, attended school in this building. The primary grades (1-2) were held in a nearby smaller building which was later moved to Queen’s Byway. At the end of the 19th century, these facilities became inadequate and a larger building (demolished in the 1960’s) was constructed in 1904 to replace the small district school. The old school was moved 200 feet to its present position and turned around so that the columned facade faced Main Street and sold at public auction to Augustus Lawrence. It was then leased for 30 years by the Improved Order of Red Men, and known locally as Red Men’s Hall. Then about 1938, it was again sold and used as an antique shop until September 1956. James B. Barnes Lodge then purchased and refurbished it, retiring the mortgage in May 1967. The Odd Fellows Lodge met on the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 8:00 P.M., until January 2005, when James B. Barnes Lodge surrendered its Charter and consolidated with Cape Cod Lodge #226 of Hyannis. James B. Barnes Lodge last met in its Lodge Hall on November 12, 2004. The Hall was sold to the Town of Falmouth in December 2004. The last meeting of the Lodge was held at the home of Bro. Cardoza on January 7, 2005 and consolidation took place at the Lodge Hall of Cape Cod Lodge on January 13, 2005. The elected officers of James B. Barnes Lodge at the time of consolidation were: William F. Burdick, P.G.M., Noble Grand; Walter J. Johnson, P.G.M., Vice Grand; Clayton W. Collins, Jr., P.G., Treasurer; and James E. Cardoza, P.G., Secretary. Researched and Written by James Cardoza

description #1

This cottage stood on Main Street near Watsons Corner around 1900. The house in the background right is 1 Main Street. To its left out of sight would be the home of Karl Bohaker, a dentist in Falmouth for many years. The cottage was later moved back from the road along the footpath between Main Street and the United Church apartments

clarkson

I was thinking back this week to a time when I could brush my teeth and let the water run, or didn't have ice cubes that were previously boiled. That walk down memory lane inspired me to offer another set of memories of a simpler, less complicated time in Falmouth, when guys like Manny Rapoza and Nate Ellis would have desalinated ocean water with burlap bags before they let us go a week without water. Anyway, this reminiscing reminded me of another Falmouth - like when you got a glass of water when seated at the Friendly's in the Falmouth Plaza where the Dynasty Buffet is now, and got a grilled cheese and a smile from Bob Anthony. How about a simpler time in Falmouth when Harvey was the Postmaster in Hatchville and you could catch a family movie at the drive-in theater near Falmouth Lumber? Yes, times were simpler then. There was no E-coli to contend with back in those days at the Surf Drive Bathhouse, just an efficient and confident Ellen Mitchell, who ran the beaches with a loving but firm hand. Back then, you could get a slice at the Leaning Tower of Pizza on Main Street across from St. Pat's, or a sandwich at the lunch counter at Woolworth's. That pizza joint on Main Street became one of the early locations for fresh produce from Jack in the Beanstalk, later making a stop (in no particular order) at the Heights corner in the old Howard Johnson's building, on the site of the bank at the corner of Scranton Ave., and in a super-produce store on Davis Straits where Papa Gino's is now, before coming to its current home in North Falmouth. I read where they will sprout another store near the High School lights with locally grown produce. Nice work, Bobby and Steve - that harkens back to a simpler time as well. Tough times like these call for a little revisiting of times past, when civic pride was flying high, along with patrons leaving the Oar & Anchor at the site of the current Peking Palace, or the Port ‘O Call at the Falmouth Hotel. I remember a couple of license hearings on that one. The regulars from the Towne Tavern weren't happy with me when we tried to limit their hours and insisted they were simply guilty by association. They were right. The TT is still going strong, and the Falmouth Hotel is but a memory. Yes, those memories comfort us as we reach for the Poland Spring to cook our spaghetti as we listen to the blame game on FCTV. Memories like when you could buy new cars just about anywhere in Falmouth - Pontiacs across from the DQ, Hudsons in the Heights, Chevys from H.C. on Main Street, and Fords in Teaticket across from Joe's Driving Range. Back in those days, you might get a room at the Vidalia motel in East Falmouth, near the Fire Station at the Davisville Lights, but you couldn't stay at a friend's house in Fisherman's Cove down the street, as it was strawberry fields forever down there. You could, though, pick up a bottle at Three Way Liquors. How many know the three? They were local businessmen Frank Stone (of Barbershop fame), George Lebherz, and Jim Wynne. At Christmastime, you could count on Harvey's Hardware (on Main Street before it moved behind the Plaza) to have live animals, then get a cup of coffee at the Shady Nook near what is now the Chamber building, and maybe attend the VNA nursing ‘fete' at the Village Green. I loved buying trees from the FHS seniors years later in the Bradlee's parking lot. Does anyone miss having a KFC in Teaticket? If you remember that, than you surely remember the Tataket Square restaurant down the road a bit, and even the Blueberry Muffin at the site of Mary's Dream (in the A-frame) down further still. Right around the time when my sister Dena was the first Falmouth girl to be allowed to play Little League in '74, you could get a good meal in East Falmouth at Danny Kaye's, before Bobby and Susie Wong took over the location and brought the east end its first Chinese restaurant in Golden Sails. Before bottled water was big and back when we didn't need it, you could get a cold soda at Donohue's grocery at the corner of Trotting Park Road on your way to getting a sandwich at Comoli's behind the Curtis Compact. All this walking down Memory Lane is making me thirsty. I guess I'll have to melt a couple of previously boiled ice cubes... ShareThis

fire towers

This is currently an active state tower This tower sits on land donated to the town by Mr. Howland. A one mile phone line was built to this tower Electric power and two-way radios were brought to the tower in 1937. The tower was replaced in 1946 with the old tower from Marthas Vinyard.

soup shack

A Little Soup Shack on the Harbor By: Gail Blakely, February 28, 2012 GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE - Kevin Andrade and his wife Maria at the Soup Shack at the head of Falmouth Harbor. It seems that every place I go, people tell me about the Soup Shack, the latest food truck to grace the Cape. After meeting its owner, Kevin Andrade, at a local farmers market, I decided to pay the Soup Shack a visit at its daytime location on Falmouth Harbor Andrade is no stranger to the food industry, having started as a dishwasher in Connecticut at age 19 and moving to the Cape to open the original Carbo’s in Mashpee. He went on to open the Kansas City Steakhouse at the Holiday Inn in Falmouth, and then spent 12 years with the British Beer Company. After a short stint as a partner in the East Falmouth Sweet Tomatoes, Andrade is again on his own, with his very own Soup Shack in tow. The Soup Shack idea germinated last fall when Andrade got a telephone call from Stan and Cynthia Terrell, who run the Green Harvest Organic Farmers Market at the Barnstable County Fairgrounds. "[Stan] asked me if I would be interested in making some organic soups, using their vegetables. I didn't quite know what to expect—the first day I sold just four cups of soup all day. But after that, people seemed to really like the soups I make, and I started thinking about getting a trailer," Andrade said. Soup n' sandwich With trailer parked at the entrance to Falmouth Harbor on Robbins Road (off of Scranton Avenue), the Soup Shack business is really taking off. In addition to soups, Andrade offers hot sandwiches, including breakfast sandwiches from 8 to 11 AM every day. Best bets are the grilled cheese with caramelized onion and tomato; the Turkey Gobbler Wrap, composed of thinly sliced turkey in a flour tortilla with cranberry sauce, cornbread stuffing, and cranberry mayonnaise; or the corned beef sandwich on marble rye with Swiss cheese. It's the soups that I have been hearing about, so I asked Kevin how he gets his ideas. "I just come up with them," he replied with a grin. "My kale soup is from my ex-mother-in-law, Caroline. It's an old Cape Verdean recipe, and I think I'm the last one she showed before she died. She never measured anything, but I just watched her and got the basics. Now I think it's one of the most popular soups that I sell!" He likes to try new soups and make changes in what he currently offers. "But there are some I know I have to leave alone: my apple-butternut bisque, for example, and my chowder. I get my clams from The Fish Market in Teaticket, and I've learned to thicken it with a roux made with organic butter and corn flour—that way it's gluten-free, which a lot of people seem to appreciate these days." Ditto for his vegetarian vegetable soup. "That's mushrooms, acorn and butternut squash, parsnips, turnips and greens, all simmered in their own natural juices. I try to really cut back on salt and pepper and use a lot of fresh herbs for flavor.” The Soup Shack is open from 8 AM until 2 PM, though Andrade says you can probably catch him until about 3 PM. Soups are available by the cup or the quart.

Woods hole basketball

* Woods Hole Basketball Team at Community Hall Comments: Photo taken after World War II. A local businessman provided uniforms. Contributor: Cynthia Smith When: 1946 Where: Falmouth Woods Hole Who: Back: Robert Griffin, Jr., David Casiles, Samuel T. Cahoon, Jr., Richard Cahoon, Marshie Cross, Bob Pratt, Bill Thayer. Middle: James Gifford, Dick Alberts, Noggie Eldridge, Ellie Eldridge, Jack Cavanaugh, Warren Withyell. Front: Samuel Vincent, ?, Pete Bailey, ?, Thurie Blomberg Image ID#: 40.29.2.jpg Notes for basketball team picture

tin man

This 1920's Tierney diner, formerly known as Wendell's Corner Snack Bar, is the new home of the My Tin Man Diner. There's a photograph of it on page 24 of Randy Garbin's Diners of New England, which describes it as "arguably one of the oldest operating diners in the country" and "hard to find but worth the effort." 2008

tumbleweeds

Tumbleweeds storm Community Hall Woods Hole, Massachusetts. L-R Suya Colorado, Consuelo Faust, guest artist David Appel, young Sara, Claude Palmer, Rhodessa Jones, Hal Hughes.

strawberry

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Lectures

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Paula (Hildreth) King, age 82 died at Falmouth Hospital on April 20, 2012 from complications during surgery. Born in Buffalo, New York, she was the youngest daughter of Paul Hildreth, whose ancestor fought at Bunker Hill, and Mabel (Scribner) Rand Hildreth, descendent of John and Priscilla Alden of the Mayflower. She was the granddaughter of James H. Rand, prominent inventor and founder of what became the Remington Rand office machinery and typewriter company a Megansett Shores Realty Corporation which developed much of North Falmouth. She moved to North Falmouth shortly after birth and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1947. She worked as personal secretary to author and Samaritan founder Monica Dickens Stratton in the 1960’s. She also assisted her mother, Mabel, of Hildreth Real Estate which had been established in 1932. Upon her mother’s death in 1971 the firm merged with May Kenny Silver Beach Realty and Noyes Real Estate to form Real Estate Associates, Inc. which is the largest family owned firm on the upper Cape. Her niece Priscilla Geraghty and her grandson Elliot King carry on the business now as fifth generation Realtors. She retired in 2005 when she developed Alzheimer’s disease, but remained an active member of the North Falmouth Congregational Church. She was married for 39 years to Capt. Dudley G. King, RCN who died in 1999. Paula was an avid golfer with the WGAM and Woods Hole Golf Club when she was twice women’s champ, twenty years apart, and had twice had a hole in one. She was active with the Garden Club, Falmouth Historical Society and a supporter of the Woods Hole Science Center and Audubon Society. She was on the bowling league. She loved crafts such as pottery, and spent years digging in historic dump sites where she recovered many historical bottles. She is survived by her son, Attorney Alan H. King of Winthrop and North Falmouth, two stepsons, Colin King of Toronto, Ontario and Martin W.G. King of Alexandria, VA. Also surviving are grandson Elliot King and granddaughter Angelique King. She leaves her sister Priscilla Case of Melbourne FL and six nieces and nephews. Her caregiver of many years was Jane Harrington. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the North Falmouth Congregational Church in her memory. A Funeral will take place at 2:00 pm on Saturday,

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To go with cute man in boat at drawbridge Tom Stetson, son of oceanographer Henry Stetson, with six year old Chris Stetson in 22' Marshall catboat Callipygia entering Eel Pond from Great Harbor, Woods Hole under the raised drawbridge. Seaplane hangar on (Dyers Dock) pier behind Chris' head. Tide Station in raised "house." R.V. Gosnold (WHOI) on far side. This is the end of the season, after a pleasant fall sail to Hadley Harbor across Woods Hole passage and back to the mooring on Eel Pond. Photo by Dan Grace, fall 1969. http://www.mvmagazine.com/article.php?26579 Good steamship material..

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1916, Elizabeth Eliot-Smith. Central Cape Cod also had a skilled nurse visiting homes.
Later a second hand Ford (with hand crank) was purchased for the nurse’s use.
In 1921 the VNA relocated from their original 1918 location on Main Street to a new health center on Locust Street.
They grew and expanded over the years and by the 1960’s had grown to a nursing staff of five.
By 1996 the various VNA’s merged and by 1997 they joined the CCHC family and became known as the VNA of Cape Cod. Today their headquarters is located in Hyannis.
The VNA nurses provide passionate care to patients and continue to expand over the bridges.


Dr. Langdon Burwell.
1961, hospital construction is underway at the property donated by Dewitt Ter Heun.
Construction was completed in May of 1963, with 58 beds.
In the early 1980’s top floors were added increasing the hospital to 83 beds.
In the mid 1990’s the Faxon Center was added, Outpatient and Maternity Center.
The last expansion took place in 2005 with the Medical Offie Building (MOB).
Future plans see the completion of the Clark Cancer Center in early 2011.

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Ann Howell
Spent many a summer on the cape. One summer lived off Marivista on Maple Street in Falmouth, worked at HoJos as a waitress.....car died and had to ride bike back and forth from work all summer long. Best summer of my life. A bunch of friends from Southie had a place off of Maravista that summer as well. Had summer cottages on Depot Road, in Hyannis, Chatham, Dennis, but love the cold water of the Atlantic Ocean on the Falmouth Side. Casino and Brothers four for happy hour, a quick nap, then down Route 6 to either "On the Rocks" or "The Crystal Palace". Pufferbellies, The Improper Bostonian and the Mill Hill were also favorite haunts of me and my pals. Great times with fantastic fond memories.
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Greg Papasodora I was cooking at that Hojos when Chubby Checker came in for breakfast.
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Ahrens-Fox articles -Falmouth, MA

Posted on 08 Apr 2011

Preserving Memories in Falmouth – from www.capecodtoday.com



Saving our history

Every day, the noise was like clockwork. Actually, I guess it was clockwork in a way. At 4PM, the fire whistle at the Fire Headquarters on Main Street would blow and be heard throughout the town. Some days, I could hear it all the way from East Falmouth, as I walked past the funeral home on Davisville Road on my way to the Curtis compact for a 25 cent pack of gum. In those days, a small fire station sat at the end of Davisville, at the lights where the gulf station is now. That edifice today is an apartment building a little further east on Route 28. You could set your watch to that fire whistle, and it is one of the childhood memories that created my Falmouth identity.

A 1930 Ahrens Fox fire engine.

I’ve chatted in this space before about the value – and signficiance – of memories like that and how they can keep us grounded and provide stability and a sense of place for future generations. That is why I believe the initiative of Fire Deputy Glen Rogers to bring a restored 1930 Ahrens Fox fire engine, used in Falmouth until 1960, back home, is a grand idea that will provide new memories for generations of Falmouthites.

In a wonderful story in Tuesday’s Enterprise, scribe Brent Runyon brought the old engine back to life, highlighting the story of restoration expert Larry Powell of La Habra, California. Mr. Powell acquired the then tired, old engine in 1980, and has spent the last thirty years restoring it with his son. It is his hope that the engine will make the long trip back cross-country to its former duty station in Falmouth.

The story was accompanied by a picture of the engine as is looks today, and as it stood in service in 1930, with a virtual who’s-who of East Falmouth names standing around it, next to the old Station five. When I hear names like Vidal and Rebello, I think East Falmouth. When I hear names like Robbins and DeMello, I think Falmouth Fire. Representatives of all of these Falmouth families were gathered proudly around the then pride of Falmouth Fire’s fleet.



Enter Glen Rogers. Fireman red runs through his capillaries. His dad, Jim, was Chief in Falmouth when that old whistle used to blow and knows a thing or two about Falmouth history. It is no irony – but rather a fitting tribute to Chief Rogers and his son the Deputy – that the old Station five that used to be at the end of Davisville sits across from his boyhood home. Deputy Glen has hatched the idea of adding Powell’s restored engine to a fleet of a couple of other antique fire vehicles in the town’s inventory and in service from as far back as 1897. He’d like to showcase them as part of a local historical display to be enjoyed by residents and visitors alike. What a fantastic idea.

Now enter the Community Preservation Committee (CPC). Their charge, according to the Community Preservation Coalition, includes preservation of items, which are, “determined by the local Historic Commission to be significant in the history, archeology, architecture, or culture of the city or town. “ This engine, its history and what it represents, and the historic display that could and would result from its acquisition, is not only significant in our town’s history, it would be a tangible and visible link to an era that is swiftly vanishing from our consciousness, as members of that greatest generation leave us. The CPC in Falmouth has a great track record of supporting some wonderful projects. This one has the potential to be added to the list.

This project is a rare opportunity for agencies in town to work together with a singular and positive purpose – to preserve something uniquely Falmouth for future Falmouthites. I applaud Deputy Rogers for honoring his family tradition and his hometown heritage – and offer a hope and a nudge to the Community Preservation Committee to join with him in this endeavor to make some memories.

This column is reprinted from Falmouth Enterprise.

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Jesse E. Torres, Jr.
East Falmouth, MA
Jesse E. Torres, Jr., age 83 of East Falmouth, MA, died Monday Jan. 8, 20007 at Falmouth Hospital after a long illness.
He was the husband of Sophie J. (Souza) Torres to whom he was married for 60 years.
Born and raised in Falmouth he was a 1941 graduate of Lawrence High School. He then served in the US Navy during WWII. Upon his honorable discharge from the Navy he attended diesel mechanic school in St. Louis, MO.
Mr. Torres was a Auto Dealer owning the International Harvester Dealership and later an AMC Dealership in Falmouth. Following an accident, he operated a repair shop in E. Falmouth until his retirement in 1997.
In the 1960s he and his wife operated a service station and variety store in E. Falmouth.
Mr. Torres was a member of the Falmouth Planning board and St. Anthony’s church in E. Falmouth, He loved children and his longtime horse “Mr. Beesley”.
Besides his wife he leaves a son Jesse E. Torres, III of CA and a daughter Mary Torres of Falmouth, two grandchildren Jesse E. Torres, IV of Ca and Joseph Torres of Dearborn, MI. He also leaves a brother Donald F. Torres of Mexico and a sister Eleanor Collie of TX. He was brother of the late Lorraine T. Souza.
Visiting Hours will be Thurs. from 4-7 PM in Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home 475 Main St. Falmouth Center. A Funeral Mass will be at 10:00 AM on Friday Jan. 12, at St. Anthony’s Church, 167 E. Falmouth Hwy.
Burial will follow in St. Anthony’s Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1905.
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Name: Jesse E. Torres, Jr.
Date of death: January 6, 2007
Dates of Services: January 9, 2007 — January 19, 2007
Service Posting will expire on: January 29, 2007
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The Mitchell Family of East Falmouth, MA in US wrote:
January 10, 2007
Sophie, Jesse was a great friend to many people and my fathers best friend. Falmouth has lost a truly great guy. Rest in peace. The Mitchells
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Kathy Cimikoski of East Falmouth, Ma in US wrote:
January 17, 2007
Your grace, your integrity, your inspiration to be kind to others I will cherish and hope to carry on as I walk and continue my journey. Until then may your spirit live on through all that loved and knew you.God bless your family.
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Jim Lopes of , in US wrote:
January 9, 2007
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John & KIm Barrett of , in US wrote:
January 11, 2007
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Deb Lyons of east falmouth, ma in US wrote:
January 11, 2007
Im going to miss Uncle Jesse’s heartwarming smile. I do have so many wonderful memories growing up. His wonderful spirit and always positive attitude made everyone feel happy. My thoughts and prayers are with Aunt Sophie, Mary, Jet, Jesse and Joey. God Bless you Uncle Jesse you will be missed.
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Cheryl DeVine of Warwick, NY in US wrote:
January 12, 2007
Dear Joe,
Our hearts are filled with sadness to know your guiding light, your mentor has been taken from you. Your Grandfather taught you well… his lessons, his stories, his love will nuture you still. With all our love,
Cheryl & Philip
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JIM LOPES of EAST FALMOUTH, MA. in US wrote:
January 9, 2007
Dear Mrs.Torres,I am very sorry to hear of Mr.Torres’s passing,may god be with you at your time of need
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Brian and Diane Mulhall of E. Falmouth, Ma in US wrote:
January 11, 2007
Dear Joe, We were so sorry to hear of your Grandfather’s passing. He truly was an inspiration and role model for you. We send our deepest sympathies to you and and all your family. Brian and Diane
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Joey Hazelton Is that rc hobbies next to goldensails ?
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Mike Crew I was thinking it might be but couldn't be sure.
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Joey Hazelton It was before my time , but my my mom said it might be .
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Wayne A. Costa Woodward You have got to love the old days own a business and have your home upstairs....I sure do remember this, but not the location.
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Paul Larkin east falmouth where the chinee restaurnt is MAYBE?
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Beverly Sylvia Williams yes, rc hobby shop upstairs--Scott Clement had his repair shop there until recently-when I was younger it was a candy store-used to go there before CCD at St Anthony's which is to the left
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tripp house

This inn is a beautiful Federal style house on the Village Green in Falmouth, built in 1804 and completely renovated in 1894. From 1924 to 1984 the Tripp family lived there headed by Dr. Tripp. The inn was bought by Diane and Don Crosby in March of 1995 and they continue to be the gracious hosts there. During their first year Diane was setting the table on a November evening when something caught her eye. She looked down the hallway and saw an old, stooped man with gray hair walk into the parlor. He was wearing a plaid shirt and look like a real, solid person. It struck Diane that he looked nothing like either of the two men currently staying at the inn. She entered the parlor to see who it was, and there was no one there. The Crosbys believe that she saw the ghost of the senior Dr. Tripp or his son. That is the only apparition Diane or Don have seen, but not the only strange happening. Dr. Tripp`s waiting room was made into a guest room called (appropriately) the Tripp Room. In that room the lights and radio have suddenly turned on by themselves. Another room that seems to be haunted is the Dimmick Room on the second floor (named after the family that built the house). One guest in that room reported seeing a ghostly young woman in a white nightgown during the night.

HAUNTING

For Shawna..... Here is your ghostly mansion Highfield Hall. Built in 1878 and most recently brought back to it's former glory. For many years it was semi derelict and, apparently, the hauntings started in the 1950's.
A former owner and his friend heard the ghostly sounds of a woman in high heels coming down the main staircase. A few years later, a visitor came after a major hurricane when the electricity was out. He fled after he saw the apparition
of a woman lunge down the main staircase toward him. I believe the ghost is Faye that Peter Cook said also appears at Highfield theatre.

Restaurants

does anyone remember where kentucky fried chicken was and aw rootbeer was boy that was the place i worked there when i was like 23 yeah, the site of quizno`s[now out of business] i helped put the colonel on the roof [k.f.c.] a few weeks before it opened [1967] i think. (John larkin)


Hurricane deck


           

• Sally Amend Larmon I do remember the hurricane of 1954 that put this building into the street. I lived on Allen Avenue and my Dad I went for a walk after it was over and saw it as we walked toward the harbor.

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  Bob Bodie Ransom great pic. i think that's bill gallagher's (owner of the falmouth air port) beach buggy on the right?
  
  
  
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  Lori Lori Welch I like it better as Papa Jakes!

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Teaticket memories and house of wong

Can anyone remember Sagar's gas station across from the school where the White Hen Pantry is now ? How about the greenhouse that the Simmons family had with their gas station where the Sunoco station and the Driftwood plaza is now?  Robert almeida who went to school in teaqticket admin building from 1951-56 which dates him,I also remember the bakery where White Tie limo is now.yes how could you ever forget # 1 st grade mrs wright if you were bad in the conner you go & if they were filled she would hang you on a coat hook. 


 The house of wong is where d'angelos is now.

Plaza information.

Woolworths was always there where i remember it. WT Grants was where Petco is now. (per John Davis)

.I posted this awhile ago....the original plaza had a Grant's, an Empire Men's Clothing, a Liggett's, a friendlys, a Woolworth's, Abeona Beauty Shop, Sea Spray Shoes, Andy's Barber Shop, and the Stop & Shop that I worked in after school and summers circa 1965 & 1966(Sandy Twohig).

Gas station

My father and Uncle Roger opened a Gulf Station in East Falmouth. Check out the price per gallon. I remember when you could pump $3 of gas and your tank was full. (Barbara Gonsalves heron).Late 60's I believe because my father opened Falmouth Gulf on Main St leaving the E Falmouth station to my uncle Roger Roderick.


from george Duarte  Barbara didn't your Dad have his gas station where 7/11 is on the corner of Scranton Ave.? Your Dad & Mom were always so nice to me anytime I went over with AnnMarie or your Mom came into PaPa Ginos, she was very quiet. Very nice family.

19th century Crime

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There Were Town Drunks, Fish thieves, and Fishwives, Prostitutes and Rum-Runners, Falmouth Had Them All, Judge Wood Could Just Barely Keep Up

By TRB

Several years ago I was up in Maine at this old paper show. "Old paper," to those of us who buy, sell and collect it is called "ephemera." To most of us it's just old paper. Myself, I like really old paper. I won't purchase anything over the Civil War Era and prefer the Federal Era 1780-1820. If that sounds a bit snobby, I'm sorry.

It's the "new" paper that has all the problems. The really old stuff, sometimes called "rag paper,"  you can roll up into a ball and unroll it again without doing damage. The paper the U.S. began to produce around 1850 isn't rag paper, it's thin and because of the timber-to-paper process they've added some acids to it. That's why when you see papers from that period today they often look burned. The oxygen in the surrounding air and the acid content in their pages  combines to literally burn them up. If not properly preserved, an expensive process, they will go completely to black by the third or fourth decade of this century.

So I like rag paper. No acid to speak of. When I first spotted the papers shown in this article from the Barnstable court all dated between 1862 and 1873 I noticed they were on rag paper. That is why it is still possible to read them. From a handwriting standpoint they represent the beginning of a transition from the old British script Americans brought over to the colonies towards a more modern cursive penmanship. Not quite where we are today, but closing in on it.

From the point of view of the history of  criminal justice and area history they are no less fascinating. Judge Richard S. Wood presided over all these cases, most of which were criminal and brought against Falmouth residents. There is a man here who was cited for beating his horse on the main street and was sentenced to four months in the county jail for it.

There are many people who attempted to have public taverns in their homes, without paying the state the required taxes for all the permits necessary to do so. They were almost always caught, usually turned in by a neighbor and they were fined great amounts of money.

There was one individual who had at his home 50 gallons of brandy, 50 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of  wine, 50 gallons of something called "mixed spirits" and 50 gallons of whiskey. He was fined $187, a fortune back then, and had to turn all the illegal spirtis over to the court. In addition, he gave up the name of the rum-runner with whom he did business and that man's boat was confiscated by the state of Massachusetts.

My favorite among all these cases is a woman with a very Irish-sounding name. The Irish were not treated nicely in Boston back then (1872). And they most certainly not treated nicely in Falmouth.

 This woman was, according to court papers, walking the streets night and day. She was often arrested for drinking. One time she is apprehended and brought before the judge for picking up rocks and smashing all the windows in a home. Later in court it is discovered that the people in the home started the whole thing by throwing trash at her everytime she passed the house.

Judge Wood fined her two dollars and sent her to woman's prison for three months.

UNIVERSITY PLAYERS

COLLEGE DRAMATISTS ENTER PROFESSIONAL RANKS AS UNIVERSITY PLAYERS' COMPANY IS ORGANIZED

SUCCESSFUL PROJECT THIS YEAR ASSURES FUTURE

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Published: Wednesday, May 23, 1928

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The biggest project ever undertaken by college dramatists will be ventured this summer by the Dramatic Club in conjunction with the Princeton Theatre Intime, the dramatic organization at Princeton. Representatives of these two organizations, and others from Radcliffe, Smith and Vassar, will, under the name of University Players, give eight plays in the Elizabeth Theatre, Falmouth, during the eight weeks including and following July 9.

The Elizabeth Theatre is a moving picture house, but arrangement has been made with the manager whereby the University Players will have use of it on. Monday and Tuesday nights during the eight weeks in which the company will reside in Falmouth.

Members of the Dramatic Club are undertaking this project in order that students from Harvard, Princeton, and other Eastern universities, to whom the drama is a leading interest, may have an opportunity to take part in professional dramatics. If the plan proves successful this summer, officers of the Dramatic Club hope to make it an annual affair, with the company gradually being enlarged and including representatives from more universities. After a few summers of stage work at Falmouth, it is planned to open a small theatre in New York City as a further experiment.

Several well-known producers with whom the University Players are consulting, and who have expressed interest in the work are Eva LeGallienne, founder and director of the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, Winthrop Ames and Robert Edmund Jones.

Among the plays which may be given by the college dramatists are listed "The Dover Road," by A. A. Milne, "The Torch Bearers," by George Kelley, "The Mosque of Venice," by George D. Gribble, "Beyond the Horizon," by Eugene O'Neill. The modern dress version of "The Taming of the Shrew," presented by the Dramatic Club last spring, will again be given this summer, with the same students carrying the lead roles. In addition, "Open Collars," a prize-winning play written by Erik Barnouw, of Princeton, may be presented.

During this summer's session of the acting at Falmouth all the scenery to be used in the plays will be made by the men in the cast, and the stage preparations will be entirely in their hands. The costumes will be made and cared for by the women in the cast.

During the stay at Falmouth the men of the company will live in a yacht, the "Brae Burn," at anchorage in the harbor, and the women will occupy a cottage at Woods Hole.

From Harvard there will be, in addition to Charles Leatherbee '29, President of the Dramatic Club, G. W. Harrington '30, vice-president, K. A. Perry '28, John Swope '30, F. K. Smith '29, T. B. Quigley '29, and J. H. Morris '29, Princeton will be represented by Bretaigne Windast, president of the Theatre Intime, Erik Barnouw, and others. From the Radcliffe Idler Society, there will be at Falmouth, Francis Small, former president. Margaret Cook, President of the Idler, and several others. Smith and Vassar will be represented by Miss Elizabeth Schauffler and Miss Eleanor Phelps respectively.
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 James Stewart was arguably the most loved actor ever to have appeared on screen. Certainly, he was the last of the great men who captured audience hearts in the thr s of the Depression and became, in the words of Andrew Sarris, "the most complete actor-personality in the American cinema." Stewart's origins read like cliches; he was born in 1908 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the son of the local hardware store owner (his Oscar has permanently resided in the store, which has been in the family for generations). While studying architecture at Princeton (his father's alma mater), he met Joshua Logan, who convinced him to begin acting. Billy O'Grady, MGM's chief talent scout, saw his performance in a line of female impersonators and remembered him as "the only one who didn't ham it up." Bitten at last by the drama bug, Stewart moved with Logan to summer stock work with the University Players in Falmouth, MA, joining future co-stars Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan. That summer a production had a pre-Broadway tryout at Falmouth and Stewart, as a chauffeur, had two lines: "Mrs. Mainwaring's car is waiting" and, after being delayed, "Mrs. Mainwaring's going to be sore as hell." It tore down the house and was 


noticed and written up by a visiting New York critic. Stewart and Fonda moved to New York, where Hedda Hopper recommended Jimmy for a screen test, resulting in a long-term MGM contract.


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  Bill Bearse Yes. Can't miss that huge building. Like most along 28 nowadays, so out of place
  

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  Kimberly Chappell those are really great photos! thanks for sharing
  

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  Victoria Fraser My father worked there! Great photo!
  

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  Debbie Botelho Zeida My dad worked there, too. He also worked at Saverys. That was when the new cars were covered until the day they were revealed. It was a big deal, and all cars didn't look the same.
  

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