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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: August 19, 2021
Oral Historian: Mark Schmidt
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: Falmouth Historical Society
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
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Mark welcome thank you for having me so
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we have the opportunity the honor really
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today of discussing uh what has become
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an entire campus of the Falmouth Museums
#falmouthhistoricalsociety
#falmouthmuseumsonthegreen
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On the Green but your postcard is of um
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an an old
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historic home
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that has had many names uh and the
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beautiful gardens which have a rich
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history so just tell us a little bit
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about uh those postcards but also the
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history of the Falmouth Museums On the
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Green sure absolutely it's a pleasure to
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be here today and thank you for having
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me um the Falmouth Historical Society
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and later the Museums On the Green
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they're kind of one in the same
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um
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was founded in 1900 and there's two kind
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of rather colorful individuals one named
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Henry Herbert Smythe who was the rector
#henryherbertsmythe
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of Saint Barnabas uh church
#saintbarnabaschurch
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in Falmouth and he had
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a friend named Robinson Crocker Bodfish
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and
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these two started up what they called
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the Falmouth Historical Society in 1900
#1900
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and later incorporated it in 1904.
#1904
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they started it because they wanted to
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capture the stories of whaling families
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while they were still relevant you know
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and still around to um to to capture
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them
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so
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um Smythe became the first president
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Bodfish became the treasurer
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they had their meetings
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at the old town hall as well as the
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library
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they incorporated in 1904
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later in 1932 one of the postcards that
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you've got there is a house that was
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owned by a woman named Julia Wood and it
#robinsonbodfish
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was originally built in 1790 by a
#1790
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gentleman named Dr. Francis Wicks
#franciswicks
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Wicks was a leader in smallpox
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research he was also
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a privateer during the Revolutionary War
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um the house was essentially the
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most stately mansion on the town green
#americanrevolution
#falmouthvillagegreen
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at the time and it was bequeathed to the
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Historical Society in 1932 by a woman
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named Julia Wood now interestingly with
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the house it also came with a ten
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thousand dollar mortgage which if you
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think about it we're at the height of
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the Depression so they you know it was
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great to get the building but they it
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took them a while to get out of debt
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until 1942 but that's where they then
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had their meetings and um
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so for a
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good deal of time it was referred to as
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the Julia Wood house or the Wood House
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but
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people got a little confused well of
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course there's a Wood House what else is
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it going to be made of
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so it
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then
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in about 2005 the Historical Society
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said let's start calling it the Dr.
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Francis Wicks house
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to kind of delineate where it is
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also in that not included in the
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postcards but next to it was a house
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that Julia Wood had also owned at one
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time called the
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the Conant House which was built in 1730
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and then the campus now entails the two
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houses
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a rebuilt barn
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called the Hallett Barn that was
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on the grounds that had had been
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infested with powder post beetles the uh
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the Historical Society decided to tear
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it down rebuild it
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and
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that's what's now used as the visitor
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center on the campus and in 2012 the
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Historical Society build a cultural
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center so if you come to the grounds now
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at 55 and 65 Palmer Avenue
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that's entails the Museums On the Green
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the name Museums On the Green
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came into the lexicon right around 2000
#wickshouse
#conanthouse #1730
#hallettbarn
#2012
#palmeravenue
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because basically when you heard the
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words Historical Society it gave the
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inference that it was a bunch of
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blue-haired old ladies dust-covered
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stuff it sounded rather non-dynamic
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the Museums On the Green
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said
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what we do where we are and
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kind of gives a better location for that
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so that's a little backdrop to the
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Historical Society
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and the building which they've they've
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had since 1932 and that's really the the
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Wicks House the Julia Wood House
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has really been the center of what has
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happened um with the Historical Society
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since the 30s um the first tours were
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given I believe in 1938 it cost 15 cents
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um the first
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school tours were given to fourth
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graders starting in 1950
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um and another postcard that you've got
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in there as well and jumping a little
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bit ahead is also the gardens the the
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the Historical Society started working
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with the um
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Falmouth Garden Club
#1938
#falmouthgardenclub
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in the late 30s early 40s
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and the there are two separate gardens
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that's next to
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the Wicks House in between the Wicks
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House and the Conant House
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one is called um
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uh
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Memorial Park which is closer to
#memorialpark
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Katharine Lee Bates Road
#katharineleebatesroad
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and the other one is called the Colonial
#colonialgardens
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Gardens which has some original cuttings
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from way back when and and from the
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ground so it's a
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it's really been
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a snapshot of Falmouth's past being on
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his on the grounds of 55 and 65 Palmer
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Avenue where the Museums On the Green
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line is now located
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as to
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why they're called what they're called
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and uh what's gone into that so
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the um the Wicks House has been the
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center of our universe for you know
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better part of
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nearly 100 years
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and
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it's been something that the Historical
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Society has maintained it's gone through
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a couple of iterations
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among the things that are in the Wicks
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House is some
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18th century French wallpaper that was
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originally brought back
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by a whaling captain
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in 1802 and set up in a different house
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but brought over to the Wicks House in
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the 1950s so it's not original to the
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House but it's one of the own the Wicks
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House is now one of the only three
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buildings in the united states that
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actually has 18th century French
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wallpaper the other two are
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located in Washington, D.C and in Boston
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um uh it's also
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walls have been removed um it used to be
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uh
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multiple walls and what's now the dining
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room but the the uh
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the Board at the time said let's try to
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make a little more stately so they took
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out different walls so it's a much
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larger dining room
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so it's gone through different
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iterations but it's definitely been
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the absolute
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apex of what the Historical Society has
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wanted to do and show off since they
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acquired in 1932. so they were they're
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rightfully proud of it and they've the
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boards over over the years have done a
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good job of maintaining
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um its elegance
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and thank you for that wonderful and
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detailed intro and so
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over the decades
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the campus has really become
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a cultural center for the community
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where people come and gather and not
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only have the ability to
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see the artifacts that are on site in
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the Wood slash Wicks house
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but then
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hear a living history of the town
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through the
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visitor center and the authors and the
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speakers that you have there so it's
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really grown from
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a static display to a living
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breathing example of our local history
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and the people that have contributed to
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it thank you for saying that that's
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that's really our intention we we
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realize that um we're right at the
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beginning of uh the downtown area that
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we we know that there are people who
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uh come into town and want to learn more
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about what's going on in Falmouth and we
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try to provide that it's a bit of
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education entertainment information
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that we hope we can provide to people
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through
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guided tours of the Wicks House who are
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walking towards the town through um
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uh
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lectures and talks
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uh obviously through the through the
09:01
pandemic we've had to do things
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virtually although the walking tours
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remain in person and they've been very
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popular with
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because of the um
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the pandemic we have to make sure that
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people still wear masks when they go
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into the Wicks House
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because we don't want any docents any
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volunteers any visitors to get sick but
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then
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but it's been
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our way of kind of showing people how
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the the town has changed how it's
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progressed how things how things have
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gone from
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um
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the Federal period in which the house
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was built
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through through whaling through
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whaling captains and on through
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tourism being the main
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industry of the town so it's our way of
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trying to give a doff of the cap to that
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and inform people that this is what
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happened
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through the years
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tell us a little bit about the the
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whaling history and Falmouth it's not
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something that's often discussed but in
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the day was an important economic driver
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for the community people forget that
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that um that for about a 30-year period
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this really was the business of Falmouth
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and uh so from 1920 to 1820 1850
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um Falmouth was
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a major whaling port it was not
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Nantucket it was not
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New Bedford
#whaling
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but
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arguably it was third and
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there there were famous whaling captains
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that went all throughout the world
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if you go up and down Locust Street
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there are whaling um captain's homes in
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fact
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um
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the
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the aforementioned Wicks slash Wood House
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was actually a whaling captain's house
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for the better part of 86 years so it's
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um
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as much as we focus on Wicks
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and end with Julia Wood in between were
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some significant whaling families that
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lived in that house as well as other
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houses in the town and uh until oil is
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discovered in Pennsylvania
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um that was really
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whale oil was really the driving force
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for Falmouth's uh economy for a good 30
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years
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so as you've noted uh in
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one of the portions of the museum uh
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there are
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displays of
#locuststreet
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clothing and
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different tools and artifacts from
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Falmouth's history highlight a couple of
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maybe your favorites or the the more
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interesting items you have on display
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well if you would walk into
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the Wicks House
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itself we want to give a guided tour so
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you can go through everything and try to
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see
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uh furniture from the you know from the
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18th and 19th centuries
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china
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paintings and portraits of of some
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major luminaries from the town
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um
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if you go into
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the Conant House right next to it you can
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get a self-guided tour
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of a timeline of Falmouth's past
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I personally my favorite artifact in in
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the whole collection is a 1939 jukebox
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that was in the Falmouth Grange that
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still plays
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one of our
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one of our members a long time had it in
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his barn he passed away his widow asked
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would we like it I
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couldn't say yes fast enough
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it took a couple years to get restored
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but it plays beautifully and I think
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it's
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amazing to watch people of any age
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understand appreciate and really
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uh just glow when it plays so so you see
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different things all throughout um
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Falmouth's past we've got something from
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the wreck of the Andrea Doria you know that uh
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there are things that go back um
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obviously there's a painting of the HMS
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Nimrod which attacked
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Falmouth in 1814
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that you can
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see an artist's rendition of that so
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there's so many things we literally have
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over a hundred thousand artifacts in our
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collection much of it's paper and books
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and
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ship’s logs
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but
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we feel that we're the repository of
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Falmouth's past and we try to do
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a good job of protecting that past
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in climate controlled environment and
#andreadoria
#hmsnimrod
#1814 #warof1812
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making sure that what we have
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is
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protected and ultimately offered for the
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public to see
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one of the uh I think
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critical roles that the Historical
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Society uh and
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and your leadership play is
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creating
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uh
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capturing today's
13:49
history so that a generation or three
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generations from now when people visit
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the Museums On the Green they'll be able
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to get a sense of what it was like to
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live today
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and
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uh this is conjecture on my part but I
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would venture to say that when people
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from future generations look back on
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this era in Falmouth uh from an artistic
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standpoint because you mentioned
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paintings that they will look back on
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Karen Rinaldo as one of the the leading
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artistic voices of our time uh and you
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have on display
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one of her most prominent paintings tell
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us a little bit about that yeah I mean
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um
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Karen painted uh something in 1995
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called The First Thanksgiving 1621 and
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she actually did it for
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a church group out of Wisconsin they are
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the actual owners of it
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and it's the one painting
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that
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has all of 51 surviving members of the
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Mayflower the 91 Wampanoag who came to
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visit them
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who were in attendance at the first the
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first Thanksgiving in 1621 and she did
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copious research on this and it's
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it's the one
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obviously there was nobody there with a
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Polaroid or with it with an iPhone but
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it's the one painting that's got all of
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them there and we have it till the end
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of the year
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um
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then our loan agreement I don't know
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where it's going to go after that but
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it's been a real honor to have that and
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uh
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um
#1995
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so that's one of the things we have and
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I’m really glad to mention that and
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and thank you for saying two about the
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future generations our research
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librarian Meg Costello is second to none
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and she does a great job of informing
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people
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of what has happened in days gone by and
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and we we try to make sure that we tell
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little interesting stories about
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uh snippets of Falmouth's past we also
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have tried to make it a point the
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pandemic has kind of put
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a little crimp on this and so we're
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going to try to pick it up when things
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get a little bit back to normal
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as you mentioned one of the things that
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we want to be able to do is to
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acquire stories have oral histories of
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people
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from things that are not so in the
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distant past that aren't necessarily
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18th and 19th centuries that
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if you stop and think about it and
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not to make everyone feel old but uh
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you know if you're in high school right
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now you weren't alive at 9/11. you know
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that that so that's
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that's a story to you you weren't there
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but we know that there's people in town
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that might have attended Ted Williams’
16:24
last game or their they watched Bobby
16:26
Orr play they saw the Beatles in at
16:28
Boston Garden or um
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they made a they might have been living
16:33
in Boston during bussing or they were
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working in Washington during Watergate
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it's those kind of stories that we'd
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like to accumulate while people
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are still around to talk about them
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because
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there are people that is
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maybe not ancient history but it's
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certainly history so it's um
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it's one of the things that we want to
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be able to focus on it's not just about
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um
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yesteryear it's about
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days that haven't gone that aren't all
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that far in the rearview mirror but
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people are still lucid and and and
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can tell stories that firsthand
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experiences
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that are really
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important
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to catalog and and to have in the
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database so that's
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one of our real uh points of emphasis
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that
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we really hope to be able to pick up on
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when we can get back to some air fingers
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normalcy and uh in this world so that's
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I’m thank you for bringing that up well
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it I think it it's an important
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perspective because from the beginning
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of time
17:38
up until yesterday
17:40
right that entire span is our collective
17:42
history exactly and so to capture the
17:44
more recent history is important so that
17:48
people in the future look back on these
17:50
times it's funny you mentioned Watergate
17:52
and
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as I’m sure you know right here in
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Falmouth we have
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the gentleman who actually drafted the
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articles of impeachment against
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President Nixon lives here in Falmouth
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uh I actually did not know that so
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there's a bit of our history that that
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we can share in this interview and uh
#impeachment
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and uh
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he's actually a dear friend and a
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volunteer at the Carousel of Light so uh
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but I think that's the ongoing value
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because I you raise an important point
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Mark people when they think of history
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they think of ancient history right yeah
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and
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to people of a certain age uh you know
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that the 70s the 80s the 90s were part
18:32
of our lives but
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to young people who were born after the
18:35
turn of the century that's
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ancient history and so to capture
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that's why these oral histories are so
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important because it allows us to just
18:44
have a conversation about
18:46
our community and what
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uh
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all of that collective history has led
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us to the to be the community we are
18:53
today I’m into that I mean it we we tend
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to think that if it happened in our
18:58
lifetime it's quote not cool or just
19:00
it's not that important well we've gone
19:02
through some pretty
19:04
major things in our lifetime you know
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that uh
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um you know we just mentioned 9/11 which
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is you know epic but you know
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that
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I’m sure that there were people in the
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town that were at Woodstock you know
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that that that uh or that protested
19:19
against the war or served in Vietnam or
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served in Afghanistan or
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um may not have anything to do with the
19:25
military but that they they were
19:28
they were at Fenway Park when the Red
19:30
Sox won you know that
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you know look as I’m a lifelong Chicago
19:34
Cubs fan I finally got to live long
19:36
enough to see the Cubs win a World
19:37
Series I didn't think that was going to
19:38
happen
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but it's those kind of memories it's
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those kind of
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pass-downs that we want to be able to
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capture record and set and savor
19:50
for
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current grade school high school kids
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and their kids you know that uh what was
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it like when
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you know people forget that we're going
#redsox
#chicagocubs
#worldseries
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through this golden era of
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the Patriots
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what was it like when Vinatieri’s kick
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went through and you won it for the
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first time
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wow this is awesome that the that you
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finally got to see the Bruins win the
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Stanley Cup
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you know it's those kind of things that
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uh while they're fresh in your mind you
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want to be able to um to to detail and
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to record and say this is what it was
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like
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or how you felt when the ball went
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through Buckner’s legs
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so as a Cubs fan I’m sure that was not
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as crushing to you as it was to me I uh
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look I I I have no love for the Mets
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so for those watching who weren't alive
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in 1986 uh that was when the Red Sox
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lost game six of the World Series to the
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New York Mets for me it's 1984 watching
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the ball go through William Durham’s
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legs but yeah
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but all of that
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it is relevant to our discussion because
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it's part of our local history and so
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it's great to have you to be able to to
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share that with us and to catalog it for
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future generations
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what else would you like to share with
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us
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speak to a future generation of
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Falmouthites and and talk to them about
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what it's like to be in Falmouth in 2021
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well I think it's been it's been really
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interesting watching the world go by and
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how people have
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really had to
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retrench
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and
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re-prioritize things because of the
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pandemic I mean
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as a history major as somebody who used
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to teach history or something who's paid
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to to educate people in history it's
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it obviously hits me at my core
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when watching history getting
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devalued and de-emphasized in school
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curriculum that that that cuts and it
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hits me where I live
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so I want people to understand
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what it is that we went through and why
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history is important and that's why we
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do as many of the
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the talks as we do and and doing them
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virtually
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um
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I can ask just about anyone from just
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about anywhere to talk about just about
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anything historically and the worst
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thing they can say is no that if they're
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doing it from their house
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that if Troy Clarkson is in Seattle and
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he's got a book about
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fill-in-the-blank historical topic
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I can ask you to talk about it and we
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can we can discuss things that might be
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of
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current interest
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be it what's going on in in the world of
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politically uh socially economically
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and put it into some kind of a
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historical context we don't have to get
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into it into any kind of
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take political positions but but we can
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sit there and kind of educate about
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why this is relevant and germane
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so for me
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I think that being in Falmouth in 2021
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and
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what's been really gratifying for me and
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we're at the studios of FCTV for
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right now
23:05
is knowing that
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people like Debbie Rogers at FCTV have
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been there
23:11
all along to make sure other non-profits
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are still doing okay that
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um
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that we're making sure that
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restaurants are still surviving and that
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the the library is reopening to people
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and
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um that it's been difficult
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to watch businesses that had been
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thriving prior to all of this
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not
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or maybe go under it's it's been it's
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been heartbreaking and um
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I’m
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I’m very gratified for the fact that
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we've been able to endure this we've had
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some
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great supporters great members great
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donors
23:52
who have made sure that we didn't
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suffer as much as we could have
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but there's other businesses that can't
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necessarily say that so I
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I
24:05
the pandemic has taught us lessons in
24:07
business as to what we can do and
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prioritize and maybe do a little bit
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better
24:13
but I don't wish this on anyone you know
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that this is
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this
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I can think of other ways to have fun
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and this this has not been one of them
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but I’m I’m very uh gratified for those
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who have
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banded together and
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tried to weather the storm you know that
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we are going to be doing something
24:31
called the One Falmouth project there's
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14 non-profits
24:35
that are going to do a a televised event
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we hope in the first quarter of 2022
24:40
to try to show that we're still around
24:42
and we still need support we're still
24:44
going to be here and we and we want this
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to be the first of many iterations of
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that
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but
#onefalmouth
#2022
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that's been a real
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um gratifying takeaway for me is that
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there's been
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we've been able to stand together and
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you know it you know it's that uh famous
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historic line about from uh from the
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Revolutionary War if we don't hang
25:04
together all hang separately and uh I
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think that we've we've hung together
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that's a great way to wrap it up we are
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indeed one Falmouth and thank you for
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spending a little time with us here to
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be able to capture
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Some of Falmouth's history and and what
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it means uh to all of us moving forward
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so Mark Schmidt thank you very much and
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uh it's been great visiting with you
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thank you for having me it's been a real
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pleasure and honor
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