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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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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."