Kevin Doyle on the Old Stone Dock

"If you talk to kids in Falmouth today they'll tell you that they learned to swim in the Old Stone Dock, and most of them don't even know that it was there."

Kevin Doyle, former president of the Old Stone Dock Association, discusses this Falmouth landmark and its once-vital role in Falmouth's sea trade. This oral history interview was conducted by Barbara Kanellopoulos on March 3, 2020, at Falmouth Community Television.

Ready to learn more? Explore our community resources:

From CLAMS:

• The Book of Falmouth: a Tricentennial Celebration, 1686-1986, edited by Mary Lou Smith
• Falmouth (Images of America series), by Ann Sears & Nancy Kougeas for the Falmouth Historical Society

Web Resources:

• FPL Historic Postcard Collection: The Anita Gunning and Robert C. Hunt Postcard collections, archived on the Digital Commonwealth. Search by topic, location, or the card identifiers provided in the video transcript below.
• The Old Stone Dock Association: a community association for the neighborhood delineated by Main Street, Shore Street, Surf Drive, and Mill Road
• The Old Stone Dock at 200, by Lenny Miele, from Spritsail, the journal of the Woods Hole Historical Museum

From the Falmouth Enterprise archive:

• "Old Stone Dock Restoration Wins Backing," February 12, 1960 (pg.3)
• "THE OLD STONE DOCK - Tumbling stones still..." [captioned image], May 28, 1948 (pg.27)