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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: August 19, 2021
Oral Historian: Charles McCaffrey
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: West Falmouth Library
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so on the theme of libraries Charlie
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welcome you are part of the West
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Falmouth Library which is
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not only a beautiful and historic
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building in the West Falmouth Village
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but also an important part of the
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community's culture and cultural history
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so just please give us
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a brief introduction of both the
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building and the organization okay well
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you said my name is Charlie McCaffrey
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I’m
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a lifelong
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summer resident of Falmouth
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of North Falmouth actually not West
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Falmouth
#westfalmouth
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and
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I moved to Falmouth full time in
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2005.
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at that time I was aware of the
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West Falmouth Library as a wonderful
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building but I had never been in it and
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a friend urged me
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to go visit the West Falmouth Library
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shortly after I moved full time
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I quickly became involved with its
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activities and learned a great deal
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about its history
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I was struck by the library because it
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reminded me
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physically of the small
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branch library in Boston that I had went
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to as a child it looked very similar
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and that was the center of my childhood
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in uh growing up in Boston
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so I felt very comfortable
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at the library and began to volunteer
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for events
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the library was started
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in the late
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19th century by the 1870s by a group of
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women in West Falmouth who wanted to get
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together and share books
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they
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had a small building
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which they quickly outgrew
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and sought to develop a real library
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and
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got through the
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generous donation of people in the
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community they were able to acquire the
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land that it's on
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and to build
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the main building
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in
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1895
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and it's continued as a library since
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1895.
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initially staffed primarily by
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volunteers
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but increasingly over the last 20 years
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by professional staff
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the library building
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uh
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was added on to
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in the 1970s
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and then
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we became aware
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while I was on the Board of the library
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that we needed to modernize and bring it
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up to the
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21st century needs of a public library
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I say public library we are a public
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library
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though we are not a municipal library we
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receive a small amount of support from
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the town but we need to raise
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our budget
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annually
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to keep the library operating and thanks
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to the generosity of people in West
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Falmouth and in Falmouth as a whole and
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be
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beyond we're able to sustain a very
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efficient library operation
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but as I started to say we need
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to recognize that the physical plan was
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not adequate for a 21st century library
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so we needed to add
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such things as better accessibility
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handicapped-accessible bathrooms
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modern heating and ventilation uh
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archive space that's temperature
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controlled for the significant papers of
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the history of West Falmouth that we
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hold some going back to the
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mid uh 17th century
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so in
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2013 we began to raise funds
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to renovate
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the existing library to restore it to
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its original
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appearance
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it had been well maintained
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and not altered in any great detail
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since 1895 but it certainly showed the
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effects of 120 years of wear and tear
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and to put in the modern features that
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we needed without compromising the
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original space we put on a small
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addition
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that has
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the archive room
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for handicap-accessible bathrooms a new
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quiet reading room
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uh stairs and in that great entrance
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the general the project cost us
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approximately
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three million dollars
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and through the generosity of the
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community in a town and state grant
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we were able to complete the project in
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2017.
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today we are
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open 30 hours a week
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we have a professional staff
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and we undertake many programs such as
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lectures
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music programs
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children's programs that are open to the
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whole town and are well attended by
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people from throughout the town
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thank you
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for that wonderful history of the
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organization and the building I always
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say a library is the heart of a
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community and that certainly is true for
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the West Falmouth Library and I’m glad
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you do the distinction
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between the West Falmouth Library and
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the Falmouth public slash municipal
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library because
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the West Falmouth Library is
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open and accessible to the public and I
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know that's an important part of your
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mission
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it is and it's interesting that
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as a community center and that's very
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much what it is as a library and has
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always been that
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but that also
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correlates well with what is happening
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to libraries today
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libraries are very much community
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centers and a provision for the place
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for the community to gather and
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individuals to use for many purposes
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they are not just
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about lending books
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particularly as
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reading materials are available from
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many sources they continue to provide
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that
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and need to expand what they provide
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the key thing with the library is it
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provides
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materials for learning for free
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but it complements that
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with a variety of programs
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that the community can enjoy in a place
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where the community can gather
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I remember
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this is going back
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some years but when I was running for
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public office for the what was then
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called the Board of Selectmen is today
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called the Select Board uh local
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candidate debates would be held at the
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West Falmouth Library and I know you
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still have many of those civic events
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there now and so that really reinforces
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the role of a village community library
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as as you say not just an institution
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where you can experience information in
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multimedia fashion but where you can
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gather and be part of the community one
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of the great events that I’ve enjoyed
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participating in is one of the annual
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fundraisers where people gather at the
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library then fan out to different
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people's homes to eat and then come back
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for dessert tell us about that
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that's called the Movable Feast it has
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been a major fundraiser for the library
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for the last 12 years
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excepting
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the last year of course because of the
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pandemic
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actually was an event that I started and
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copied it from
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an event of the same name and character
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that was held by the Historic Albany
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Foundation where I used to live before I
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moved to
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Falmouth um
#movablefeast
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it
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well received it because it does
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build
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on and strengthen community interaction
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the idea is that people come to the
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library and they're randomly for
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cocktails and then they're randomly
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assigned
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to one of a dozen homes in the
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neighborhood
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for dinner and conversation so they meet
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new people
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and then come back to the library and
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where did you have dinner who did you
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meet what
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new people
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uh have you found you know so it's it's
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a very popular event uh
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I would add on the community center role
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of the library and how
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that's not just a new concept in
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libraries
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but
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when the library was built in 1895
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the main building had two rooms of
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approximate equal size one had the books
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and the other was a community room which
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still exists
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and did not have any books in it it had
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a bench all the way around the perimeter
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and it was for community gatherings so
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it was built as much as a community as
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much as a community center and gathering
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place as a place for borrowing books
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and because the the library has been
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part of the community for
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as you said more than 120 years now but
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is also
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the keeper of archives dating back even
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before the building was built you
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mentioned that your archives include uh
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documents that date back to the 17th
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century tell us about uh some of the
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more interesting documents you have in
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your collection uh one of the documents
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is a deed
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from a Wampanoag Indian
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granting 30 acres of land
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to I forget first name but a Gifford and
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we know that his
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name has a long history in town
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uh so it's the actual deed from
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1673 I believe of 30 acres of land in
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West Falmouth to the
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Giffords um
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I have a friend actually who's who
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bought
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the Giffords built a house
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and today it's the oldest extant Cape Cod
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style house
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in
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1678
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and it remained in the Gifford family
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until the early 90s
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when actually a friend of mine acquired
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it
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and occasionally opens it to the public
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so isn't that amazing so uh although the
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building has been around for a little
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more than a century it captures nearly
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four centuries of local history yes
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another document that's interesting is a
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passport
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for a ship
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signed by
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Secretary of State James Madison and
#jamesmadison
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President Thomas Jefferson
#thomasjefferson
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and it's an it's rather an elaborate
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printed document with their signatures
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for a ship that had been built in West
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Falmouth Harbor and sailed around the
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world
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isn't that amazing now in fast
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forwarding all these years still today
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the West Falmouth Library is an active
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participant in
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capturing today's history and and being
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part of the living history like what
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we're doing today
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but also continuing to be a focal point
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a gathering point as you called it for
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the community yes and I do recall a
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while ago
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we did have an oral history project and
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recorded some older residents of West
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Falmouth
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isn't that then that's so important like
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what we're doing here today so that
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future generations can understand uh
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what life was like in in Falmouth uh in
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2021 yeah
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um
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and I I would add
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um I myself
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uh I’m President of the Board
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for another few days
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but will continue in my involvement with
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the library I’m giving a presentation
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at the library on
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sea level rise
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which will be
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the probably the most important event
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that will affect West Falmouth and all
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of the town over the next 50 100 years
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so I’m reporting on what the town
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is doing
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to make us resilient to sea level rise
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which will require a huge effort on the
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part of everyone
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for sure and so
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a generation or two from now people will
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look back on what we did
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uh
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to to understand uh
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and to deal with sea level rise and and
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that will be
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that is an important part of what
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Falmouth will look like a generation in
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the library
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not only West Falmouth but the others
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are a key place where
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what we are facing can be communicated
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to the public effectively
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you know that that's a really good point
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because
#sealevelrise
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today
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it seems is sometimes
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scientific fact
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is even debated but libraries continue
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to be a place where there is
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some ability to to have discussion about
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public policy and facts and to share
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those in a in a neutral uh educational
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environment right
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and where
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people actually interact rather than
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individually looking at the information
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and making decisions
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without the context of discussion right
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and that's so that goes back to your
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original point about the value of a
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library as a gathering place because uh
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rather than it's a place where people
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can come and rather than speaking at
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each other can speak with each other yes
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yeah the idea of libraries as a
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quiet place is somewhat passé right and
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importantly so right yeah
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uh so
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are there any other either historical or
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interesting facts about the West
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Falmouth Library you'd like to share
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with our viewers
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I think its role as with discussion
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implies is central
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to the community
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a community to be in a
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a thriving community needs a sense of
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place
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which is created by its history and
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interactions but also by key physical
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places
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and
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the West Falmouth Library is central
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to that place called West Falmouth it's
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an interestingly enough
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in this series we also had someone from
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the Woods Hole Library
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which has a similar rich history as a
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partially privately funded but publicly
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accessible library makes me I think of
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the point
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Falmouth more than many communities
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has distinct villages each with their
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own identity and each with their own
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history and and so
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it's important that the West Falmouth
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library not only catalogued the history
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of the Falmouth community
#woodsholepubliclibrary
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but what's unique uh and special about
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West Falmouth itself yes
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uh
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it it is very much West Falmouth but as
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I said earlier too it also serves and
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draws people from throughout the town
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I myself
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have always lived in North Falmouth
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but found the library a very important
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cultural
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center so became involved
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and as by doing that became much more
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familiar with West Falmouth
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as well as
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other parts of Falmouth
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and that's so important because we are
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at the end of the day we are one
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Falmouth in one one community absolutely
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well Charlie thank you so very much for
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sharing some time with us and a little
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bit of the history of both that
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beautiful historic building that's been
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lovingly restored and modernized but
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also of the history of the library
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organization itself and we wish you many
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many more decades of success
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thank you Troy
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: July 27, 2021
Presenter: Christopher Setterlund
Host: Sue Henken
Topic: Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs, and Drinks, and Iconic Hotels and Motels of
Cape Cod by Christopher Setterlund
Also mentioned: Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund
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hello everyone I hope that a lot of you
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here last week and you came back to see
part two
of my pair of events with the Falmouth
library so I wanted to start off so you
can see me but we're gonna dive right
into
the actual PowerPoint presentation
it's gonna be nightlife and hotels
Falmouth in the area around that so
let's go right into it I’m going to
open up my presentation
and we will start from there so
this presentation is going to combine my
fifth and sixth books Cape Cod Nights
and Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod
and so what we're doing
is basically for those of you that
weren't
here last week I am a 12th generation
Cape Codder
through the Doane family that helped to
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and I included this photo here this is
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this is in the Cove Burying Ground in
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if anyone's ever gone past there
and like Sue said I am author of
six books all dealing with Cape Cod and
the Islands
the first three were all titled In My
Footsteps I’ve kind of used that
title for a lot of projects
three books um a blog that I have
and a podcast so
after that I jumped into a second
trilogy
that included historic restaurants
historic nightlife
and bars and hotels and motels
so this trilogy essentially
tells you in history where Cape Codders
went to eat
where they went to drink and where they
went to then sleep off the damage they
did to themselves
from those previous two things and that
was actually how I pitched it to my
publisher
when I was pitching book six the hotels
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eating drinking sleeping
it's all part of life
so Cape Cod became a vacation
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with his friends the small family
in Truro they had the property that was
surrounding Highland Lighthouse
including the golf course that's there
and some of the cottages that are around
there
during one of his trips walking up there
he and the I think it was James Small
they talked about this farmhouse that he
had there that was basically
empty and they both kind of talked about
how it could make
a good boarding house basically that's
how it started
the Highland House is now a museum but
when it first started it
was a popular hotel and eventually hotel
and restaurant for about a hundred years
so bringing it back around to Falmouth
in the late 19th century that's when
Cape Cod
really started to cement itself as the
summer destination
and a lot of summer resorts popped up
this included the Terrace Gables which
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so the Terrace Gables was originally
known as the Draper Cottage for a man
named Charles Draper
and it was a high-class resort in
1902 it was expanded after it was
renamed the Terrace Gables
the people that owned it they also
bought the nearby
Menauhant Hotel which they actually used
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for overflow from the Terrace Gables it
got so big
that they bought their competitor to use
as overflow for their hotel which was
just fascinating
that was in 1912. at its peak it had 125
rooms but as you'll see as we go along
in this
during the 40s and 50s it was changing
times on Cape Cod
what ended up happening was in 1960
they tried to change with the times and
they created this
restaurant cocktail lounge called the
Club 46
which it didn't really make much of a
difference
the times changing with the highway
the Terrace Gables kind of went the way
of a lot of hotels from that time
and it became the Brothers Four
nightclub which was Cape Cod's largest
entertainment complex you'll see that
again
later but that was in 1971
and now it's condos a lot of these
places
I found that they had one of two ends
they either
burned down or they were turned into
condos a lot
of them in doing the especially the
hotels and motels book
the Hotel Attaquin on the right was on
Route 130 in Mashpee
that was opened by a Wampanoag Native
American named
Solomon Attaquin he opened it in 1840
and it was a smaller bed and breakfast
type of hotel with 17
rooms but it also there were amenities
surrounding it that made it a really fun
place to visit including going
fishing at the nearby Mashpee and Wakeby
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and Solomon Attaquin became a big deal
in Mashpee in addition to his hotel
he was a selectman he was a town
treasurer
he was the first postmaster of Mashpee
when it was incorporated as a town
after he died in 1895 the hotel
continued on
for another 60 years
although they got into trouble in 1928
they were raided
during Prohibition for illegal
gambling and alcohol
they got more fame during the
early days of radio when they had
the Hotel Attaquin orchestra which would
be featured on
Station WOCB they would actually be part
of
some variety shows locally
the end came like I like I said it's
either condos or
a fire and in 1955 Christmas eve
there was a fire at the Hotel Attaquin
that
ended its reign as a hotel it's now
the site of the Mashpee Community
Gardens
on Route 130 so if you go by there
that's basically where it used to stand
and the rise of these resort hotels the
first the originals it continued into
the early part of the 20th century
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confused with the Cape Codder that is in
Hyannis
it opened in 1900 originally known as
the Sippewissett Hotel
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the land that it was on overlooking the
ocean
was originally a sheep farm
owned by a man named Richard Swift 180
acres
before it became the Cape Codder after
it was the Sippewissett hotel it was then
the Mayflower Hotel
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before finally becoming the Cape Codder
in 1931.
it was a four-story resort hotel
and by the late 40s it was the largest
hotel under one roof meaning that there
were no cottages there were some
hotels on the Cape that had
a main building but then also cottages
and such that were
seen as part of it an example of that is
The Pines in Cotuit
which was a huge complex with a main
hotel
and the people that owned it would buy
nearby cottages and mansions and made it
all
part of The Pines but the Cape Codder was
the largest under one roof
and at one point their kitchen
could seat 1500 people a night they
could serve
and it was owned later on by the
Peterson family
all the way up until 1988
when it was knocked down to make way for
condos which still stand
on the right the Coonamessett Inn which is
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still going strong now
but it's in a second location so
Coonamessett first opened in 1927
it was named for the pond by which it
stood
and it was the original Coonamessett was
based in the William
Chadwick farmhouse which was built in
1826
it became a really
well-known hotel and restaurant
especially after a woman named Edna
Harris
took it over in 1930
so the Coonamessett was owned by
uh William Chase the man that also owned
Great Island
in Yarmouth the Chase family still owns
most of it
but Edna Harris leased it she had
already become well known by running the
Megansett Tea Room
in North Falmouth and those of you that
saw my
presentation last week I had a picture
of the Megansett Tea Room
because I couldn't find an actual
picture of
the Hangar Tea Room
Edna Harris made this the place to be
and interestingly in 1953
after more than two decades of this
they had politicians there they had
military officials there
had all these the Falmouth Playhouse was
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and Edna Harris was very well known and
well regarded
and interestingly in 1953 she was told
that her lease on the property was not
going to be renewed
and this is where her story she became a
legend in my eyes when I was researching
this
because she had already done the Megansett
Tea Room
and she made the Coonamessett Inn the
place
to be
she actually also leased the Popponeset
Inn
and had her daughter Hilda Coppage run
it
so she had her fingers in a lot of pies
as far as Cape Cod
hospitality but what she did with the
Coonamessett was legendary
so the Coonamessett was going to become
a Treadway Inn which was kind of a small
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in the 1950s what she did though
was Edna Harris owned the liquor license
so she bought property on Gifford Street
311 Gifford Street which was
a home originally owned by a man named
Robert Longier
and she bought that house had it
converted and got uh
the license to run it as an inn she took
her liquor license
with her and then because the old
Coonamessett
property
was going to be a Treadway Inn she took
the Coonamessett name
with her and the furniture
so she basically took the Coonamessett
and everything that made it great and
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reopened it
at the spot that it's located at now
and it's just fascinating I’m actually
working on
an article about Edna Harris in just her
life because
it's incredible to think the stuff that
she did in the early part of the 20th
century
but like I said in the early 20th
century
the automobile made travel easier now
that was a blessing and a curse because
people that were coming down to the cape
by a train
or I mean I guess some could come down
by horse and buggy but mostly train
they would stay in one place for many
weeks
long stays at the same place automobiles
made it where
people didn't have to stay in one place
for too long
so the stays became shorter and it put a
lot of pressure on
these hotels and resorts to capture
the imaginations and the attention of
these tourists because that's how they
made their money
and another thing that came up during
this early part of the 20th century was
Prohibition
and with the advent of the automobile it
was possible to drive to
nearby dancing and entertainment
complexes
and both of these were nearby in
Buzzards Bay
and ironically they were on the same
street so you could have gone to both
so the Bournehurst on the Canal
was at 320 Main Street right in the
shadow of the Bourne Bridge
interestingly its whole run
was basically during Prohibition it
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opened in 1920
and it was seen as as a large
entertainment complex because when you
can't serve alcohol you've got to have
some other ways to entertain people
so opening night at the Bournehurst was
July 10th of 1920 and there was more
than
2100 people there for that event
they had basketball games they had
boxing matches
they actually in 1922 they opened a
lunchroom
inside run by a man named Fred Lutz
it was well known for its clam cakes
it was also a spot in the late 20s where
young up-and-coming jazz musicians like
Duke Ellington and Cab
Calloway played at the Bournehurst
the biggest event
I suppose at the Bournehurst was July 26
1930 when Rudy Vallée and his orchestra
came and played there the Bournehurst
inside was packed
outside there were hundreds and hundreds
of people
waiting just to get a glimpse of Rudy
Vallée
State Police had to be called to try to
subdue the crowd which eventually they
did but that was
one of the last hurrahs for the
Bournehurst
October 18th 1933 a fire broke out
with eyewitnesses said it was the
hottest fire they'd ever seen
and unfortunately that it didn't end the
Bournehurst
but then there was another fire 10
months later
and that was really what did it so
in the summer of 1934 the burn
Bournehurst
burned to the ground and sadly it was
right
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then when Prohibition was repealed and
the new Bourne Bridge
was built so it's unbelievable to think
about
if it had only stuck around a few more
years what it could have done and could
have been
on the right the Blue Moon Dancing
Pavilion
was at 230 Main Street in Buzzards Bay
this opened in 1931 it was also a tea
room
it was mainly outside so
they had a blue neon sign
their dancing stage where you can see
all the people out here
had blue lights half-moon shaped stage
it was perfect for summer funny thing
was that they had midnight frolic
dances which would start at midnight
I’m sorry to 12:01 a.m on Mondays once
Prohibition was lifted
because liquor sales were not permitted
on Sundays
so literally the minute that it was
Monday
they opened up and had people out there
dancing and drinking
it was mainly seen as an outdoor dancing
pavilion
or some people also called it a summer
dance garden
it was owned originally by a man named
George Blakeslee
he owned it for the first decade it
changed hands a few times
before finally being bought by a man
named Alex
Byron in 1957
what happened there was that it became
part of the larger Buzzards Bay Summer
Theatre complex which was theater in the
round
essentially the same as what the Cape
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is with a stage in the middle and seats
all around it
so it stayed open I guess
through the mid-1960s before the Blue
Moon itself was closed
the property itself stayed
being used by Alex Byron it became part
of the Byron's Landing restaurant
until 1986. it's now a veterinarian's
office
so the building is still there the
outdoor dance pavilion is not
though
and then after Prohibition nightlife
boomed
and so the casino which someone last
week had brought up
I said you know what better way to read
from the book
the actual story of the casino
so in the 21st century the area known as
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Falmouth Heights
has become a very popular summer
destination
but in 1870 the beachfront neighborhood
was born from what was then known as
Great Hill
it was at that time that George Davis
sold the property
to the Falmouth Land and Wharf Company
which retained its rights
before it ultimately fell into the hands
of its president G.
Edward Smith over the first 50 years of
the Heights’ existence
land values increased more than 600
percent
around the turn of the 20th century a
Falmouth icon would be born
adding serious clout to the village of
the Heights
in 1901 the Casino at Falmouth Heights
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opened on Grand Avenue
nearly opposite the Terrace Gables hotel
the building 80 feet long by 32 feet
wide
with 184 feet of piazza
was run by Charles L. Hopson the building
was enlarged several times
eventually containing the Cottage Club
Falmouth Heights Post Office
a barbershop and general store
the casino was completely destroyed by
fire in
April 1909 with Hopson immediately
getting to work
starting on the rebuild the barber shop
was the first to reopen just over two
months later
the building was enlarged again in 1914
and became known as the Cottage Club
rather than the club simply being a part
of it
in January 1915 Charles Hopson died
and his waterfront property would be
owned by his wife
in 1937 a year after her death
Hopson's son Harry purchased the casino
it was here that the biggest changes
would begin
on July 19 1939 after extensive
remodeling
the Casino Bar at Falmouth Heights was
added to the property with
soon soon-to-be local legend Joe Miron
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Boston
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the bartender served up the drinks his
customers desired
and then followed that by sketching
their likeness while they drank it
beyond caricatures had skill with
the brush when it came to landscapes and
watercolors
by his third season at the Casino Bar
his works were being showcased at local
art shows and galleries on the cape
he rightfully earned the nickname
Painting Bartender
in an attempt not to focus strictly on
the alcohol output
the kitchen was revamped in 1940 the
establishment was open until
1am and the bar could seat 150
so it was natural to try to incorporate
food to go with the drink
Hopson also tried to maintain the
entertainment complex
feel by adding an E.M. Loew motion picture
theater in 1941.
after trouble with erosion from
hurricanes in 1938 and 1944
Hopson sold the casino bar to Worcester
Massachusetts resident William McCann in
1945.
from there the bar's popularity
skyrocketed
along with that of Captain Joe McCann
focused on creating a positive work
environment
including putting as first priority
feeding the kitchen staff McCann also
supra
supplied room and board to his employees
if it was needed
Joe Miron created a spot in the bar
called Amen Corner
it was named for the those patrons who
drank their
fill and sat in the corner to
philosophize
it was here that hung some of his
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favorite caricature sketches
the notoriety only grew when Miron was
featured in
the October 1943 issue of Click magazine
there he was referred to as Boston’s
bartender artist
the popularity of the Casino Bar led to
the need
for a staff of 27 people per shift
including
four bartenders the fun spot of the
Heights
added horseshoes in 1946 a new sun deck
in 1947
and another name change occurred in 1949
when the establishment became known as
the Casino by the Sea
the seasonal spots popularity continued
to grow
with 1940 1951 being reported
as its most successful year yet
throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s
Joe Miron continued to thrill guests
with his skill
as both a mixologist and his artistic
gifts
summer afternoons routinely saw Captain
Joe
proudly shout down to the casino's
private beach via megaphone
during cocktail hour cocktail spree
Cape Cod fishballs many guests heard it
as cocktails free
and they came running they were
disappointed
things changed again in 1966 when
William Sweeney Jr.
purchased the property and gave it more
of a nightclub feel
making it extremely attractive to
college students and young adults
during the summers of the late 1960s and
70s
the Casino by the Sea experienced
another swell of popularity
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during the golden age of Cape Cod
nightlife
however after spending nearly the
entirety
of the 20th century entertaining folks
at the Heights
time came for last call in 2000
the fading legend was purchased by
developer Frank Messina
the casino property was torn down in
November 2003
to make way for the upscale Casino Wharf
FX for those wondering what it
might have been to have a drink with
Captain Joe Miron pouring
it's possible to replicate it with a
popular drink from the 1940s called the
sidecar
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for those of you that have never read my
book
Cape Cod nights I put drink recipes
at the end of the chapter for each spot
in there
and I pick the decade that I see as when
it was
most popular and so the 1940s I picked
for the Casino
but after Prohibition
and with the rise in popularity of
nightclubs and bars there was a need for
more hotels and resorts
this included the Red Horse Inn which
for those of you who were here last week
you'll remember that the Red Horse Inn
started as The Bellows
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#frankmessina
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Reading from Cape Cod Nights ends
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and it was a tea room slash lunch and
dinner spot
owned by a woman named Thekla Hedlund
opened in 1933 on Falmouth Heights Road
after Hedlund died in 1946 it was run
as a restaurant for two more years
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the name was changed to the Red Horse
Grill and then to the Red Horse
Inn and it's been standing ever since
Popponesset Inn as I mentioned earlier with
Edna Harris
it's at 252 Shore Drive in Mashpee
right in the middle of New Seabury
in 1941 it opened as
an actual resort it was originally owned
by
Malcolm Chase of Great Island who bought
the property in 1929
interestingly before it became the
luxury resort
it was leased out by a nurse named Norma
Armstrong
and she ran it as um
a campsite where basically
people that were going there they had
the money to rent rooms at these
high-class resorts but they actually
preferred
staying in this trailer park slash
campground
that was affectionately known as tent
city
and it was 4 000 acres
then in 1941 when it became the
Popponesset
Inn then it took off where
it started with 10 rooms then quickly
added 15
more as I said Edna Harris took it over
in 1947
and put her daughter Hilda Coppage in
charge
once New Seabury was built and finished
in 1964
then it became a popular wedding
destination
and it was actually owned by the Chase
family until
1998. it's
known for its spectacular views fine
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and relatively isolated location
especially back in the 40s and 50s when
it first got started
and as I said soon it was the golden age
of Cape Cod nightlife
and there you see the Brothers Four
which was previously the Terrace Gables
so the Brothers Four opened in 1971.
it was three clubs under one roof known
as Cape Cod's largest entertainment
complex
it was so big that it had sister clubs
in Somerville and Nashua New Hampshire
the Brothers Four they were the Robbat
brothers
George Russell Stephen and Allen
Brothers Four is also well known for
being the
finish line of the Falmouth Road Race
where
Falmouth Road Race creator Tommy
Leonard
created it when he ran from the Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole to
the Brothers Four which is why it has
such a unique
mile distance the Falmouth Road Race
because it was a run from
one bar to another
the problem with the Brothers Four was
the zoning
where being this huge nightclub it ran
into a lot of problems with the
locals that lived around there for
noise and drunken disorderly behavior
things like beat the clock happy hour
didn't help
and so basically from the late 1970s
up until it's ending in 1987
it was a constant battle between the
Robbat brothers
and the town of Falmouth to keep the
place going
they even created the Yesterdays
Bar inside there they were trying to
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make it
more upscale but Brothers Four was known
as
a really wild hangout
in 1987 it was torn down and like I said
with the Terrace Gables it is now
condos
but it was also the golden age of
hospitality
I had mentioned the Coonamessett Inn that
moved to
Gifford Street it is still well known
and highly regarded
for its food and its lodging
the Sea Crest is at 350 Quaker Road
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this one has a fascinating story also
where
the Sea Crest Hotel got its start as the
University Players’
summer theater and that was in 1928 it
opened and some
Hollywood heavyweights got their start
at this theater including Jimmy Stewart
and Henry Fonda
it was chained the name was changed to
the Beach Theater
and in 1936 there was a fire
naturally because fire and condos are a
running theme with these
places when it was reopened in 1937
it was named Neptune’s Tryst then it was
the Old Silver Beach Club then it was
the Latin
Quarter which was run by a man named
Lou
Walters
whose daughter Barbara Walters is pretty
well known
1948 it was finally renamed the Sea Crest
after being heavily renovated
and by that point there was 250 guests
could be accommodated with the
dining room holding 350 seats
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it got more of a shot in the arm with a
famous owner when Red Auerbach of the
Boston Celtics bought
a share in it in 1963
and currently it's 264 rooms
but whether you went out to drink at a
place like Smith's Olde Surrey Room
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which Smith's Olde Surrey Room got its
start as the Falmouth Bowling Alley
which was opened in 1939 by a man named
Lester Crane
in July 1946 the Surrey Room was
opened by Lester crane he saw more
value in an eating and drinking
establishment
over a bowling alley and the lead up to
the debut of the Surrey Room on July 1st
1946
and the Falmouth Enterprise there were
these ads that were just
question marks basically the mystery of
what
what was coming and it ended up being an
unusual nightclub
you'd walk in there and there were
actual surreys which were forms of
carriages
that were located in three corners of
the property
inside there was bright red trim
and yellow window recesses but they
stuck a little bit of
a throwback to how they started by
having
the bowling club lounge
in 1950 the property was sold to a man
named Daniel
Smith and that's where it got the name
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room
and there was another connection where
smith's chef was a man named Daniel
Bartolomei
he would go on to create Danny-Kay’s
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which I mentioned last week in the event
there were two big extensions to the
club they had to make it bigger and
bigger because of how popular it was
and their biggest shot in the arm came
when
they were mentioned in the Duncan Hines
Adventures in Good
Eating magazine in 1961
however now it is affordable apartments
at 704
Main Street
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but you could have gone to drink or
sleep off a great night
and that's the Gray Gables Inn which was
at
217 Presidents Road this was known as
the first
summer White House and it was
a home built for Grover Cleveland
and he lived there
and um until his basically
Grover Cleveland would come and stay at
the summer White House
and Joseph Jefferson who was a famous
actor of the very early motion picture
days of the
late 1890s he actually played Rip van
Winkle
in the 1896 version of the film
so he would come down he would fish
offshore that's why
Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse is named for
him and Grey Gables was
the name basically of the railroad
station where he would come in by his
train
it eventually became the name of the
whole village there
but once rumors got to be
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creating a Cape Cod Canal
Cleveland decided he really didn't want
to
be there while all this construction was
going on
so he stopped coming in 1908
and after his death his son sold it in
1920
basically the entire property because
they owned more than just
the actual house the whole property was
subdivided
and by 1926 there were 50 houses there
but they kept the actual Grey Gables
home
intact and it became a summer resort
owned by a man named John Stackpole
they had dining they had a cocktail
lounge it had a real nice
community feel and they even kept some
Grover Cleveland artifacts in there
including his desk that he used to write
at
and when Grover Cleveland’s grandson
came and visited he got a tour and he
was
very happy with how the owners had kept
it
close to what his grandfather would have
wanted
in 1961 a woman named Peggy Alden
took over and she was known for having
children come down for outings there
where they could come and stay
and do the fishing and things like that
to get in touch with nature
unfortunately December 10 1973 there was
a
suspicious fire that burned down the
Gray Gables Inn
and the property actually stayed
overgrown and
for almost 30 years at the turn of the
21st century
a couple came and they bought the
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property
and they actually built an exact replica
of the Gray Gables in but it's a private
home
I have been told that they
expect people basically to come and take
photos of it so they don't
mind if you you know don't go on the
property but if you get to
the edge of their driveway you can take
photos I have not
gone and tried that yet but that's what
I’ve been told that they're very
warm and welcoming to people that are
at least respectful of the property
but all these icons deserve to be a part
of
Falmouth's rich history whether it was
the Casino
or the Cape Codder Hotel
and naturally I end it like I did last
week with
a nice throwback image of Main Street
and Falmouth
and thank you all for coming back
for the second presentation and
are there any questions and I will stop
sharing my screen
okay that was great we do have a couple
questions in the chat
so far you want to take a look
can you see those Chris or want me to
read them
let's see can you hear me
I can okay so there's one about where
were any of the hotels and venues
integrated
if so what years and then also how did
World War I and World War II
impact any of these venues and did Otis
impact any of these venues
well interestingly I’m not sure about
integrated I don't know anything about
that specifically
but I will tell you that world war
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Coonamessett
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so she got this huge influx of
military officers it kind of grew the
popularity of
the Coonamessett which made it all the
more
weird that the Crane family would then
decline her
lease in 1953
and then also surprisingly the
breakout of World War Two actually
spurred on the creation of the Popponesset
Inn
because what ended up happening was
Norma Armstrong
the nurse she was running the property
as the
kind of tourist summer camp and then
the military wanted to use it
basically for training the whole
property because it was
down before New Seabury and before all
that it was really isolated
and so they used it the late 1930s
but then really didn't have a need for
them to be out there training
when World War II happened so then the
property was
not abandoned but they were looking for
something to do with it and
it's like all right why not use it for a
hotel
so those are two I could think of yeah
and if anyone has any questions or just
wants to share any stories you can you
can unmute yourself
also and just raise your hand you know
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put your video on
so I have a question um can you tell me
a little bit more about how you've done
some of the research for these
books for these sure
so the nightlife one was actually a lot
of fun because
basically I asked my especially my
parents I said where did you used to go
when you were younger to go out drinking
and partying
and so that's how I got a lot of the
initial ones
then it was a matter of researching
the research is a lot of fun you kind of
find
broad terms nightclub bar and you look
up what places appear a lot
and a lot of them you growing up on Cape
Cod I could pick out a lot especially
from the 80s on
but then the real fun came with
putting out posts on social media and
getting folks that
may have remembered what it was like in
the 50s
and picking out places and you get a lot
of
varying opinions on who who like what
places
places like Brothers Four and Casino those
were easy
I had so many people in there's a
history group on Facebook for Falmouth
and I
I put a blast in there and I said where
did you like to go
to drink and party and Brothers Four
came up
so much it was Brothers Four and
Yesterdays and I didn't realize they
were the same
under the same roof I thought it was a
different place
yeah yeah those are pretty active groups
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definitely so
do you go into all these different
groups all over the Cape
or yes so
after social media I would then reach
out to
historical societies the Bourne
Historical Society was very helpful with
the Blue Moon Dancing Pavilion and the
Bournehurst
and even places that I didn't end up
using for the book like
Quintals they would send me photos
Falmouth I think Falmouth Library sent
me a bunch of
postcards of and it was essentially
just like these places might be ones
you'd be interested in and I would look
at the postcards and then I would start
researching from there and that's where
a place like
Smith's Olde Surrey Room came from I
didn't know it at all
and I saw a postcard of and I said that
looks interesting a big
carriage inside the bar so it was
so much of this was other people helping
me because my knowledge
of restaurants hotels and nightclubs is
very limited you're talking 1980s to now
and mainly Mid-Cape because that's where
I grew up
so I had to rely on a lot of people to
help
me put this together these three books
yeah so what made you decide you wanted
to write a book like this
about restaurants so the restaurants
one was actually pitched to me
so I have a friend of mine Bill DeSousaMauk
see this is what I like is I like when
other people share
what they know because my knowledge is
based on my research and
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very few when it came to the nightclubs
very few people had coherent memories of
them
basically what I would get was oh yeah
it was fun but I don't remember much
because I was drunk so like all right
well
I can say everyone had a good time but
that's about it
but the restaurants book was pitched to
me
by Arcadia Publishing and they actually
wanted
historic restaurants of Martha's
Vineyard and I told them I said I
couldn't even name you
five current restaurants let alone 40
that used to exist
so they came back to me and said we see
you've got a deep connection to Cape Cod
would you like to do that book I said
all right now you're talking
and it kind of went from there because
restaurants
naturally evolved into nightclubs and
bars
and then I pitched the hotels and motels
to go from there yeah
oh someone someone just typed something
in the chat too
Packet Landing in now where is Packet
Landing
in Orleans I don't know
I don't know if anyone who's there if
you went to
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room or I mean the
Coonamessett is still around and the Cape
Codder
see the hotels I think there'd be less
people in the chat that would have
stayed there because you're all
basically from here so why would you go
and stay at the Sea Crest
that's where the the bars and nightclubs
really come into play but even then it's
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like
places like the Bournehurst and the Blue
Moon that's
way back we're talking the 20s and 30s
so
that's kind of difficult yeah
Brothers Four in the Casino I would
think
you get some folks that would remember
that
yeah and by the way I want to recommend
these books because I I have looked at a
lot of these books they're great books
so
I encourage people to buy them or get
them out of the library and I’m not just
saying that because he's here
and the Casino part that you heard I
actually read
from the book I read it word for word
which
because someone last week had brought up
the casino and I had mentioned that I
would be talking about it this week and
I decided
we were talking this is behind the
scenes that
these events people that come to them
like to hear the authors read from their
books so I
picked a chapter that I thought would
fit and the Casino has got a
a great history Captain Joe Miron the
the painting bartender I did an article
about
his actual life so I do a deeper dive
and that I think is on capecod.com I did
a lot of writing for them
for several years and I stopped writing
for them a few years ago because I
I got to the point where i wanted to
write about
things I wanted to write about and so
you'd have to pitch ideas to the editor
and sometimes they wouldn't be on board
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so an article like Edna Harris who
ran the Coonamessett that would be one
where they might not be interested in it
but now I don't have to worry
it's a part of the In My Footsteps
Podcast Blog
that goes along with the podcast
yeah do you have any do you have any
other books about Cape Cod or the
Islands that you're
that you have in the works sir well
so I’m starting work on
a photography book now
the thing with that is I’m waiting for
contracts I guess you would say it's
basically been approved
and so it's going to be
Photographers’ America is the name of the
series that started
and the Arcadia Publishing they came to
me with three different
titles and they said you want to do
these and I said well I can't do all
three
I’ll pick one and so
I picked the photography one and I’m
waiting to get
official confirmation I’ve already
started taking photos it's going to be
beyond just the norm like I’ll have a
lot of places that are well known
but there's going to be some street
scenes I’ve got pictures I took in
Provincetown at the
Lobster Pot of people in line and
things to give people a feel of what the
heart and soul of Cape Cod is all about
beyond just what everyone goes to as a
tourist
so that's one I’ve got another one that
I’m
working on but it's more
tight-lipped I want to say it's
something
big and exciting but I don't have an
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agent I don't have a publisher yet but
I’ll just say it's
true crime and it's working hand in hand
with a documentary film that's coming
out
so that's one where I’m really excited
about but I have to keep it kind of
hush just in case I don't ever like to
share things and then have it fall apart
yeah I know that you happen to take some
gorgeous scenery photos
of the Cape you know that oh thank you I
I post a lot on Instagram I
I believe I just passed my 10 year
anniversary on
Instagram and I have somewhere in the
neighborhood of
4 500 photos on there which I figured
out comes out to
basically 1.3 photos per day for 10
years
so I like Instagram yeah
so that's on the photography oh and
someone just said something the Casino
had a life-size
papier-mâché statue of Captain Joe that
was part of the flagpole
wow oh I would have loved to have seen
that
yeah yeah Captain Joe I’ve seen photos
of him
but he seemed like just a fascinating
guy
so I had to do a whole article about him
yeah if anyone does have any memories of
those places that they can remember yes
that's the big
catches do you actually remember going
to these places
yeah yeah the restaurants probably more
so
which was last week yes it was
interesting
when doing the research for the three
books
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I had a lot of help with the restaurants
a lot of help with the hotels not as
much
with the nightlife because people didn't
remember
but I got a lot of names of places that
was about it no stories though
I think people are also fond of
restaurants because they grow you know
it's part of their childhood or their
summers they remember
going to these things absolutely
it's more family fun rather than
nightlife where it seems like you get in
a lot of trouble
yeah yeah and definitely yeah take
take a look at our postcard collection
on our website too because there are a
lot of
great historical postcards if you
haven't seen them if you go to
falmouthpubliclibrary.org we do have a
digital
page where they have a lot of these
great postcards that Chris has probably
seen
yes I highly recommend it that's I
always joke that
when it comes to obscure Cape Cod
history I always think it's
this might only interest me but I’ll
share
things that I find and that's why things
like the postcard collection I love it
no there's a lot of interest in in Cape
Cod history because I yeah of course I
work in the Reference Department we get
a lot of questions
a lot of those questions
yeah there's random things that I’ll
find interesting I was out for a run on
the
bike path down in Harwich last week and
there's a building
called Depot Storage and it's just a
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storage building
and I’d run by that hundreds of times
this time I went by there
and they had I guess removed shingles
and it revealed this old mural that was
I guess it used to be an
Ocean Spray cranberry warehouse
so now there's a painting of Ocean Spray
cranberries from the 20s
what was that that I did
oh someone said the Falmouth Enterprise
more is an interest is an amazing source
of photos and articles I’m not sure what
you mean by more do you know that
there is a ton of stuff in there though
well the Enterprise
I was just on the website this morning
doing my research for Edna Harris
oh and I I go down the rabbit holes
where I’ll find something else and I’ll
say okay
put a pin in that I’ll go look at that
later
that's the I find that interesting the
old newspaper archives I think are
fascinating
yeah they are and yet we do have the
Enterprise I don't remember the exact
date off the top of my head but we have
the Enterprise microfilm pretty far back
pretty far back yeah it's interesting to
even go
and just you start by researching
something you're interested in and then
you never know where it goes
oh and Kim just Kim just did a link to
the Joe Miron postcard
in our Digital Commonwealth that you
guys can
you can click on now or you can look
later
he's a very interesting character I wish
I could have met him
Kim is our cataloger by the way she
works here as well can do well
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so she knows and she puts together much
of this all of it
so I encourage you guys to check out
Chris’s site chrissetterlund.com
because
you know this there's even more on that
site
oh [unintelligible] oh okay I’m okay
good to know yeah I was like I didn't
think I didn't think that was a mistake
but
more see that's I should know that
but I guess I didn't and by the way we
do have the Enterprise digitized but
only unfortunately up to 1962 so
if you want stuff from 62 to the present
you do have to go to the microfilm
sadly we hope to have it digitized all
the way up at some point so you don't
have to go through the mic oh I would
love that
see I didn't want to bother you about
that cause I was gonna say it only goes
up to like 62.
and by the way yeah we we will search
the microfilm the microfilm
you know for people within reason if
they have a date and a specific thing
if they come to us and say I think it
was 82 maybe it was 83
and that's a little harder but if
someone has a specific request
you know with some kind of pinpoint of
the day we can we're happy to look if
you can't get in here
and Kim said that he painted the mural
at Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole which is pretty cool
that would make sense
I’ve actually never been in the Captain
Kidd so
that might be a destination yeah Chris
lives Chris lives in Yarmouth by the way
so Falmouth isn't his regular
spot but he did a lot of digging to find
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out
you know specific found the things
because his books are about Cape Cod but
he looked
he's you know he did go beyond and find
some Falmouth information that isn't
even in his books for these talks
yes I wanted to make sure that it was
relevant to you who came
to actually check out this event
so that it wasn't just like oh there's
all these places in
Eastham and Provincetown and it's like
you may not have ever heard of them I’d
rather it be at least
relevant to the town you're in yeah that
was great
that was great all right and
just a reminder to everyone that we are
recording this and FCTV is recording it
they're going to edit it for us and
make it look nice and then I’m going to
post it on our social media and
what I try to do is I’ll try to email
you guys all the link to it it'll be a
YouTube it'll be up on YouTube and I’ll
give people the link because I know
sometimes people
you know didn't hear it well or they got
in late or something they want to hear
the whole thing
yeah that I’ll definitely share it all
around too
absolutely yeah it'll go light on our
promotion
yeah it'll go on our Falmouth YouTube
page and our Falmouth Library YouTube
page
and does anyone have any questions
before
we let Chris go
yeah if you think of any shoot me an
email and I can shoot him an email too I
think
he has his email on his website too oh
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yeah definitely I’m always
I get people that contact me about
places to stay I had someone
who listens to my podcast asking me
where he should bring his wife for their
anniversary they're not from here
so I was pitching in places to go I
don't know where he stayed but
I kind of ran the gamut from resorts
like Wequassett
down to little bed and breakfasts oh wow
well the Captain David Kelley you might
remember Sue
um oh I’m trying to think of the name of
the man he's he
would do spinning at Mid-Cape
and he he and his husband they own that
and so I always promote him so that's
where I’m hoping they win
oh wow David Kelley House in Centerville
he had his scones
oh he's I’ll have to ask Kailyn she
knows his name
wow yeah so if anyone needs a place to
stay in Centerville
yes who knows anyone who does okay
well I want to thank everyone for coming
and yeah
we're really glad that you came and we
want to thank Chris for coming too that
was a great presentation
thank you so much to everyone who came
out and took some time out to
listen to me talk about these books that
I took a lot of
pride in creating yeah no it was
wonderful
and have a good night everyone we will
see some of you guys
at the next event and we have a thank
you here well thank you so much
I really appreciate it
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Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: August 19, 2021
Oral Historian: Mark Pearson
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: College Light Opera Company (CLOC)
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Mark
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welcome we're so glad that you're here
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and Falmouth has
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a thriving artistic community and
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certainly a rich
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artistic history in the College Light
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Opera Company is and has been an
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important part of that so
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talk to us your postcard was of course
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the facility in West Falmouth that is
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the home
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the heart and soul of CLOC as it's
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known right so tell us about the history
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of the College Light Opera Company and
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also
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the site there in West Falmouth where
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it's it's been housed sure well first
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very happy to be here thanks for
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reaching out uh yeah so College Light
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Opera Company was founded in 1969
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and it grew out of the
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defunct Oberlin Gilbert and Sullivan
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Players who had been in Falmouth for
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just under a decade so that was a summer
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program operated by Oberlin Conservatory
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designed to provide their students with
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a summer performance opportunity that
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was something very typical
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at that time in America especially in
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resort towns like Falmouth
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you'd have you know any number of
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college organizations and they would
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just put on a different show every week
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and that would be your summer
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entertainment for the summer you know
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folks would have uh season tickets so
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for example CLOC
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and at the time orbiting G&S they did
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nine shows uh in nine weeks the same
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program basically that we continue this
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to today so families would come down
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they'd have you know Tuesday night
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tickets Wednesday night tickets and that
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would be their regular thing for uh for
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the summer and that was known as
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Summer stock theater and it was very very
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typical um
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it's died out significantly
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there are very few organizations left
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that do it in that similar
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fashion
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CLOC is one of the one of the remaining
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ones uh on the arts landscape
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and I think that's just as as a starting
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point that's a really important
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piece of information to say about the
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organization and its place in the sort
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of national landscape it's sort of
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holding a torch for
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summer stock which was
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at one time a very very important part
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of American
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summer entertainment and very
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specifically American it doesn't really
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happen in many other countries that way
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so that's sort of what CLOC is as I say
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grew out of Oberlin Gilbert & Sullivan
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Players who themselves sort of grew out
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of an older organization called the
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University Players which goes back to
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the 1940s I believe and again that's
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just the sort of tradition of
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a group of college kids getting together
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the original intent was more
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entertainment but our mission has sort
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of shifted over the years as we became
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a
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one of the last remaining organizations
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to do this to really focus on the
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educational aspect of that experience
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the educational side of it was sort of a
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side note in the old days I was like
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well yeah you're going to learn how to
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do it because you've got to do it
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and then
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it sort of became clear that hey this is
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actually
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a big part of what's important about
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this organization so
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that's why in our mission education is
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that we do
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you mentioned our our campus in West
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Falmouth
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which is where we
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live and work we perform at the
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Highfield Theater
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which is
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as many folks know I think
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was once the stables for Highfield Hall
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so if you're familiar with Highfield
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door that at one time housed the horses
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and now uh since the 1930s this is a a
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theater structure
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from our campus in West Falmouth
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it's about six acres uh right
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uh on the banks of the West Falmouth
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Harbor where the bridge to Chapoquoit
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the fields of West Falmouth that
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lots of houses um so Bridgefields Hall
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was built in 1895
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through 1648
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and uh
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I as I understand it Quakers were not
06:05
particularly welcome on the island so uh
06:09
as sort of a well I’ll show you
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they bought the large lot right at the
06:14
entrance to the island so everyone going
06:15
to the island would have to drive past
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their estate to get to their summer
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state uh it was designed by
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J. Williams Beal a Boston
06:26
architect he had recently moved from New
06:28
York to Boston he had spent some time
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abroad
06:32
and he was commissioned to design the
06:34
building uh it is of
06:37
somewhat architectural interest in that
06:39
it is a
06:41
Queen Anne
06:42
Tudor revival which is unusual for our
06:45
area most houses being built at the time
06:48
were what we would call the shingle
06:49
style
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you know everything that standing still
06:52
is covered with shingles and this was
06:55
a style that was more popular for town
06:58
houses sort of stucco half timbered
07:00
style
07:02
and it also has
07:03
the
07:04
whispers of the emerging
07:07
early modern architectural movement in
07:10
that was inspired by a lot of Japanese
07:12
architecture and the sort of play
07:14
between exterior interior spaces so if
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you're going around the building you'll
07:18
be in a staircase all of a sudden the
07:20
staircase is outside that it's inside
07:22
again
07:23
and it has a lot of very dominant
07:25
horizontal lines which sort of suggests
07:29
where Frank Lloyd Wright was heading at
07:31
the time you know fitting buildings more
07:33
into the area that they're that they're
07:35
set in
07:37
so yeah the Scull family uh
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lived there for about ten years
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uh Sara Scull died in 1910
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uh at which time it was uh sold and
07:48
converted to an inn in 1912
07:51
and it basically served as an inn
07:54
and restaurant uh until 1975
07:58
when it closed and CLOC moved in in 75.
08:02
I mentioned earlier CLOC was founded in
08:03
1969.
08:05
so the question is well what was
08:06
happening at that time uh well Oberlin
08:09
before CLOC and then CLOC were
08:11
originally in residence at what was
08:13
known as Tanglewood House
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#1912
#1975
#tanglewood
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which if you're familiar with the
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history of the Beebe family
#beebe
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here in Falmouth they actually built two
08:22
mansions up on the hill there was
08:24
Highfield Hall which is uh
08:28
Queen Anne but again leaning a little
08:29
bit more Shingle style and then there
08:31
was an iconically Queen Anne house which
08:34
was called Tanglewood and they were
08:36
built for the brothers and they shared
08:38
the barn and the stables
08:41
and Tanglewood was the longtime
08:43
dormitory for
08:45
both Oberlin and College Light Opera
08:48
now when the property was given to the
08:51
Cape
08:52
Conservatory they were uh unable to keep
08:56
up all of the buildings that were on the
08:58
property and the first one that really
09:00
had to go was Tanglewood so it was
09:01
announced in
09:03
uh 74 that they would be razing
09:06
Tanglewood and there was not enough time
09:08
for
09:09
the sort of uh
09:10
you know grassroots movement that ended
09:12
up saving
09:13
Highfield
#capeconservatory
#capesymphony
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several years later so Tanglewood fell
09:17
to the wrecking ball and CLOC was left
09:20
presumably homeless um but uh
09:23
J. K. Lilly
09:25
uh stepped forward at that time and he
09:27
had he and his wife had recently
09:29
acquired the West Falmouth Inn and he
09:31
said you know what I’m going to do is
09:33
let's have y'all move over to West
09:35
Falmouth
09:36
we'll rent the property to you for a
09:37
dollar a year until you get back on your
09:39
feet figure out
09:41
a better solution so the Company moved
09:44
sort of lock stock and barrel to west
09:46
Falmouth in 1975
09:49
B Haslun one of the original founders of
#haslun #roberthaslun
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the organization and his wife Ursula uh
#ursulahaslun
09:54
got married and had their wedding
09:56
reception uh a week before the Company
09:59
arrived in 75 and then the first thing
10:01
the company the 75 Company did was they
10:03
went up to Tanglewood salvaged
10:05
everything they could and trucked it
10:07
over to West Falmouth and we've been
10:10
there ever since
10:11
um about five years after that so we're
#lilly #josiahklilly
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into
10:17
77 78 ish
10:20
uh
10:21
the Lillys decided that
10:23
they didn't really want to be landlords
10:25
for this property and uh the best
10:28
best use of the facility would be to
10:30
demolish all the structures uh
10:33
four struc— uh five structures at the
10:35
time
10:37
to make a public park
10:39
and uh so there was a big effort to find
10:42
CLOC another home
10:44
in the uh in the area
10:46
and uh that kept coming up with no
10:50
no viable
10:52
alternatives and then finally the uh the
10:55
Board of Trustees struck a deal with the
10:58
Lillys which was to buy the property for
11:01
the cost of tearing it down and turning
11:03
into a park
11:04
so they were able to
11:06
get a mortgage raise some funds and then
11:08
I think by 79 or 80 they had paid off
11:10
the full mortgage
11:12
and the property was was CLOC’s um as I
11:16
mentioned there's the there's the inn uh
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which was built in 1895 which is the
11:20
most iconic building on the property
11:23
then there are four outbuildings so
11:25
there are two twin cottages which we
11:27
call Cottage One and Two on the harbor
11:29
that were built in the 30s to uh
11:33
as the inn as the West Falmouth Inn was
11:35
expanding those were sort of uh you
11:37
could bring your family and rent a
11:39
cottage but you would dine in the inn
11:42
and then Cottages Three and Four which
11:44
were added in the sixties uh Cottage
11:46
Three which is out behind the property
11:48
was a caretaker cottage Cottage Four
11:50
which is right next to the bike path uh
11:53
was built as a staff house also in the
11:56
mid 60s
11:58
they dug a pond so we have about an acre
12:02
man-made pond right in the center of the
12:05
property
12:07
and yeah so the West Falmouth campus is
12:10
where we do obviously
12:12
we live all
12:13
those buildings are all dormitory
12:15
buildings
12:16
and we also have our dining facility it
12:17
was fortunate that it was an inn so it
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came with a large industrial kitchen and
12:23
the dining rooms are perfectly appointed
12:25
for uh for the Company
12:28
as well as our costume shop is housed in
12:30
the former Pony Room which was the uh
12:33
the bar and lounge of the West Falmouth
12:35
Inn
12:37
and we recently just actually
12:40
minutes ago
12:41
completed a new facility on on the
12:44
property which is called Lucas Hall
12:48
which is a
12:50
is the first new structure since the 60s
12:53
on the property and it's a large
12:56
rehearsal and office facility and the
12:58
purpose
12:59
for that is to
13:01
take the stress off of
13:03
Bridgefields Hall which has sort of
13:05
served
13:06
as a catch-all space so it's been our
13:09
main rehearsal space our dining space
13:11
we've carved office spaces out of common
13:14
areas
13:15
uh and so this is an opportunity to
13:17
actually create
13:19
a building designed and intended for its
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purpose which is to
13:25
do all of the rehearsal of the
13:27
preparation for the shows that we do up
13:29
at Highfield Theater as well as provide
13:31
office spaces for our summer staff but
13:34
also for our year-round staff
13:36
none of the other buildings on campus
13:37
are winterized or heated so as soon as
13:40
you have to shut the water off you have
13:41
to shut the water off
13:43
but this building
13:44
is insulated and will have
13:46
year-round use which is which is a big
13:49
uh
13:50
big change for us and very exciting
13:52
wonderful well thank you for that
13:54
detailed history because it
13:57
both the property and the organization
13:59
are richly woven uh through the the
14:03
really the soul of our community so
14:04
thanks for that
14:06
that virtual tour with us that gives uh
14:08
our viewers a sense of of the history
14:11
before the camera went on we were
14:13
talking about the role that uh the
14:15
College Light Opera Company plays in so
14:17
many lives not just in the performers
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but in people that have enjoyed the
14:22
shows or people feel a connection uh to
14:25
the organization and so
14:27
as we record this the Woods Hole Film
14:29
Festival is about to open in Woods Hole
14:31
and as I told you I interviewed someone
14:34
this week
14:35
who is one of the filmmakers that has a
14:37
film
14:38
his connection to Falmouth began in 1990
14:41
or 91 when he was a performer with the
14:43
College Light Opera Company and
14:45
that sort of lifetime connection to the
14:47
organization has happened thousands and
14:50
thousands of times because over the
14:51
course of more than 50 years
14:54
uh
14:56
you know you've had so many lives that
14:59
have been impacted and enriched by the
15:01
organization yeah it's
15:02
the a couple of things I always try to
15:05
hit when I’m talking about CLOC you
15:07
know one of which is uh if you're in
15:10
Falmouth if you live here and you know
15:12
the CLOC is here
15:14
you may be
15:16
permitted to make the mistake to think
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oh every community must have one of
15:20
these but this is a
15:22
truly unique organization and it is
15:26
something that
15:28
uh is uniquely
15:30
situated your Falmouth is uniquely
15:33
situated to support this kind of an
15:35
organization um you couldn't do this
15:37
just anywhere and this organization
15:39
couldn't have survived in just any
15:41
community you need a good base of of
15:44
folks who
15:45
appreciate the performing arts who will
15:48
not only attend but will support the
15:50
performing arts and
15:52
a certain uh continuity
15:54
which I think Falmouth provides and
15:57
in uh on the other aspect is what you
16:00
mentioned um this sort of networking you
16:03
know we do
16:04
provide the students with a sort of
16:06
educational experience but the
16:08
experience is more learning by doing
16:10
they've all been to university they've
16:12
all been studying their craft we don't
16:15
provide classes we don't provide
16:17
lectures we simply say okay you've
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you've been studying this
16:24
now do it and do it
16:26
repeat it for nine nine weeks
16:29
and uh in a very intense environment and
16:32
what
16:33
one learns in that environment is a is
16:35
this what I want to do with my life
16:37
because if
16:38
if you get through that uh really 11
16:41
weeks when you count the pre-season time
16:43
get through those 11 weeks and you're
16:44
like I never want to do that again then
16:46
you probably don't want to have a career
16:47
because your career is going to be that
16:49
you know if you're actually paying the
16:50
bills with performing arts your career
16:52
is going to be that hectic so that's
16:54
thing one and then thing two you you
16:57
realize how to streamline your own work
17:00
um and be more efficient which is also
17:02
important when it's a question of
17:04
economics and trying to pay the bills
17:06
it's great if you're a wonderful
17:07
designer but you can only design one
17:09
show and it takes you six months well
17:10
that's not gonna pay your rent uh but
17:13
then thirdly and most importantly it's
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the connections that they they make when
17:16
they're here because they are it's a
17:19
hyper concentration of uh
17:22
the best of the best
17:24
in these programs so it's those
17:26
who really
17:28
are
17:29
thinking this is what I cannot do
17:30
anything else with my life this is what
17:32
I want to do with my life and then they
17:34
meet
17:35
all these other people in their age
17:38
group who are feeling the same and they
17:40
end up being a very tight-knit
17:43
group within the performing arts
17:45
community as they go on you know they
17:47
all they go to New York or some of them
17:48
go to Europe but they keep connections
17:50
and they keep talking and
17:53
it also spans generations so you go you
17:55
know you go to
17:56
move to New York after summer CLOC and
17:58
you're at a cattle call audition
18:01
and it is
18:02
very
18:03
likely
18:04
if not a given that at least one person
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behind that table has either been the
18:08
CLOC or has a strong connection to
18:10
CLOC because that's just how small the
18:11
community is and then of course
18:14
the sort of beneficial residual for
18:16
Falmouth is they also have that deep
18:19
emotional connection to the community
18:21
because it you know for many people it's
18:23
one of the most uh memorable
18:26
summers of their lives and they spent it
18:28
here so they do tend to come back and
18:30
tend to
18:31
keep connections with uh you know not
18:34
just their company members but locals
18:36
that they met while they were here and
18:37
then they may end up doing something
18:38
like the Falmouth um film festival or
18:41
you know some of them
18:43
have come back every year just to do the
18:45
Road Race because they did it that one
18:46
summer that they were playing trumpet in
18:48
the orchestra you know so it's uh it is
18:51
a very
18:52
uh important
18:54
organization
18:56
for on the national scale but also I
18:58
think for us in Falmouth it really you
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know when you are talking about
19:02
your home community and you're giving
19:05
folks some information about it it's
19:07
like okay well Falmouth what's Falmouth
19:08
oh well you know Woods Hole and the
19:10
ferries are going to the Vineyard and um
19:12
there's WHOI and all of this great
19:14
science going on and there's College
19:16
Light Opera Company which is this
19:17
incredible uh you know
19:20
unique
19:21
summer program for for young artists so
19:24
I often refer to our community as a
19:26
mosaic
19:27
and
19:28
CLOC is one of the shining tiles in
19:30
that mosaic for sure and that's what uh
19:33
in in my full-time work I work in
19:36
government and have worked in many
19:37
places
19:38
and there are no other places in my
19:41
experience that quite bring
19:44
just such
19:46
an array of tiles to the mosaic and the
19:48
arts community in the scientific
19:50
community
19:52
and people's willingness to engage
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in so many different ways and it really
19:57
really
19:57
makes this place special and and CLOC
20:00
is certainly an important part of that
20:03
yeah I mean I would I would absolutely
20:04
agree I think Falmouth is so
20:07
interesting in that it is a small town
20:09
but it has
20:11
large city scale
20:13
uh
20:14
bells and whistles to it which is so
20:18
crazy you know that we get to live in
20:20
this community where there are
20:23
world-class
20:24
everything happening around us and we
20:26
can walk on the bike path and there are
20:28
little villages yeah it's it really is
20:31
that's what Falmouth is to me I I think
20:33
you said it perfectly this amazing
20:35
mosaic of of
20:37
all any
20:38
any piece of which would be incredible
20:40
for a community but we're so spoiled you
20:43
know to have it all here
20:45
you bet well one of the other phrases
20:47
that I love to use is that it takes a
20:48
name to make a town but people to make a
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community so Mark we thank you for
20:52
sharing the time with us and for you
20:55
being one of the people that really
20:56
enriches that mosaic and and thank you
20:59
for your leadership at CLOC and keeping
21:00
that tradition going thank you so much
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