1 10 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/32209/archive/files/94d2d9600a0b647cc1e1f6079ffc8c56.pdf?Expires=1785369600&Signature=dxgYnQIQDi2keHyKwsIKUc9E7ABLR6Z9ykw9e6HnNlMiHbYWz5Oz5TNbj9Zi7DS5IVwCHELrYzbjTu9RZPExHMcbNlDDAiKNNxM0TXO4FH%7EgU5qe0ZBfWm3eoS1iDMpvztSHcthGdT94AEPDY5-JkcQyvF%7Em6KMM2hQLbPCZoR8GDIbALcv3A0VYMysOu77OiP7x-yelfNTaDeFulYboDAnJU2WFIV1zrddAQZbmyLw9usmAaRKxJA7GibA-pkCf-3qy-Y2oNnA%7EAR09fk7rWqnUmLx7sohqG2O4Gxa03nyJ02a%7EJ8adP76Ce9KY49AvkEI67GLW-mBdMVSS5l89rw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 05f6315fa01e23069ba3e6aaca7e150b PDF Text Text Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript Recorded: August 19, 2021 Oral Historian: Mark Schmidt Interviewer: Troy Clarkson Topic: Falmouth Historical Society Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital Commonwealth online collection. 00:00 [Music] 00:45 Mark welcome thank you for having me so 00:47 we have the opportunity the honor really 00:50 today of discussing uh what has become 00:52 an entire campus of the Falmouth Museums #falmouthhistoricalsociety #falmouthmuseumsonthegreen 00:55 On the Green but your postcard is of um 00:59 an an old 01:00 historic home 01:02 that has had many names uh and the 01:05 beautiful gardens which have a rich 01:08 history so just tell us a little bit 01:10 about uh those postcards but also the 01:13 history of the Falmouth Museums On the 01:16 Green sure absolutely it's a pleasure to 01:17 be here today and thank you for having 01:19 me um the Falmouth Historical Society 01:23 and later the Museums On the Green 01:25 they're kind of one in the same 01:27 um 1 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 01:28 was founded in 1900 and there's two kind 01:30 of rather colorful individuals one named 01:33 Henry Herbert Smythe who was the rector #henryherbertsmythe 01:35 of Saint Barnabas uh church #saintbarnabaschurch Gunning_Village_Bldg_0316 through 0343 01:38 in Falmouth and he had 01:40 a friend named Robinson Crocker Bodfish 01:44 and 01:44 these two started up what they called 01:46 the Falmouth Historical Society in 1900 #1900 01:49 and later incorporated it in 1904. #1904 01:52 they started it because they wanted to 01:54 capture the stories of whaling families 01:57 while they were still relevant you know 01:59 and still around to um to to capture 02:02 them 02:03 so 02:04 um Smythe became the first president 02:06 Bodfish became the treasurer 02:08 they had their meetings 02:10 at the old town hall as well as the 02:13 library 02:16 they incorporated in 1904 02:20 later in 1932 one of the postcards that 02:23 you've got there is a house that was 02:25 owned by a woman named Julia Wood and it #robinsonbodfish Gunning_Village_Bldg_0451 through 454 2 #juliawood �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 02:27 was originally built in 1790 by a #1790 02:30 gentleman named Dr. Francis Wicks #franciswicks 02:34 Wicks was a leader in smallpox 02:37 research he was also 02:39 a privateer during the Revolutionary War 02:42 um the house was essentially the 02:46 most stately mansion on the town green #americanrevolution #falmouthvillagegreen Gunning_Village_Sts_0053 through 0078 02:48 at the time and it was bequeathed to the 02:52 Historical Society in 1932 by a woman 02:54 named Julia Wood now interestingly with 02:57 the house it also came with a ten 02:58 thousand dollar mortgage which if you 03:00 think about it we're at the height of 03:02 the Depression so they you know it was 03:04 great to get the building but they it 03:05 took them a while to get out of debt 03:07 until 1942 but that's where they then 03:10 had their meetings and um 03:13 so for a 03:16 good deal of time it was referred to as 03:18 the Julia Wood house or the Wood House 03:20 but 03:21 people got a little confused well of 03:22 course there's a Wood House what else is 03:24 it going to be made of 03:26 so it 3 #1932 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 03:27 then 03:28 in about 2005 the Historical Society 03:31 said let's start calling it the Dr. 03:33 Francis Wicks house 03:34 to kind of delineate where it is 03:38 also in that not included in the 03:39 postcards but next to it was a house 03:42 that Julia Wood had also owned at one 03:44 time called the 03:45 the Conant House which was built in 1730 03:48 and then the campus now entails the two 03:51 houses 03:52 a rebuilt barn 03:54 called the Hallett Barn that was 03:56 on the grounds that had had been 03:59 infested with powder post beetles the uh 04:02 the Historical Society decided to tear 04:04 it down rebuild it 04:06 and 04:08 that's what's now used as the visitor 04:09 center on the campus and in 2012 the 04:12 Historical Society build a cultural 04:14 center so if you come to the grounds now 04:16 at 55 and 65 Palmer Avenue 04:18 that's entails the Museums On the Green 04:21 the name Museums On the Green 04:23 came into the lexicon right around 2000 #wickshouse #conanthouse #1730 #hallettbarn #2012 #palmeravenue 4 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 04:27 because basically when you heard the 04:28 words Historical Society it gave the 04:30 inference that it was a bunch of 04:32 blue-haired old ladies dust-covered 04:34 stuff it sounded rather non-dynamic 04:37 the Museums On the Green 04:39 said 04:40 what we do where we are and 04:43 kind of gives a better location for that 04:45 so that's a little backdrop to the 04:47 Historical Society 04:49 and the building which they've they've 04:51 had since 1932 and that's really the the 04:54 Wicks House the Julia Wood House 04:57 has really been the center of what has 05:00 happened um with the Historical Society 05:03 since the 30s um the first tours were 05:06 given I believe in 1938 it cost 15 cents 05:10 um the first 05:12 school tours were given to fourth 05:14 graders starting in 1950 05:16 um and another postcard that you've got 05:18 in there as well and jumping a little 05:20 bit ahead is also the gardens the the 05:22 the Historical Society started working 05:25 with the um 05:27 Falmouth Garden Club #1938 #falmouthgardenclub 5 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 05:28 in the late 30s early 40s 05:31 and the there are two separate gardens 05:34 that's next to 05:36 the Wicks House in between the Wicks 05:38 House and the Conant House 05:40 one is called um 05:42 uh 05:43 Memorial Park which is closer to #memorialpark 05:46 Katharine Lee Bates Road #katharineleebatesroad 05:48 and the other one is called the Colonial #colonialgardens 05:49 Gardens which has some original cuttings 05:51 from way back when and and from the 05:53 ground so it's a 05:55 it's really been 05:57 a snapshot of Falmouth's past being on 06:00 his on the grounds of 55 and 65 Palmer 06:03 Avenue where the Museums On the Green 06:04 line is now located 06:06 as to 06:07 why they're called what they're called 06:08 and uh what's gone into that so 06:11 the um the Wicks House has been the 06:14 center of our universe for you know 06:17 better part of 06:18 nearly 100 years 06:20 and 06:22 it's been something that the Historical Hunt_Village_Bldg_029 & Gunning_Village_Bldg_0455 6 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 06:23 Society has maintained it's gone through 06:25 a couple of iterations 06:27 among the things that are in the Wicks 06:30 House is some 06:32 18th century French wallpaper that was 06:34 originally brought back 06:37 by a whaling captain 06:39 in 1802 and set up in a different house 06:42 but brought over to the Wicks House in 06:44 the 1950s so it's not original to the 06:47 House but it's one of the own the Wicks 06:49 House is now one of the only three 06:50 buildings in the united states that 06:52 actually has 18th century French 06:54 wallpaper the other two are 06:57 located in Washington, D.C and in Boston 07:00 um uh it's also 07:03 walls have been removed um it used to be 07:06 uh 07:08 multiple walls and what's now the dining 07:10 room but the the uh 07:13 the Board at the time said let's try to 07:14 make a little more stately so they took 07:16 out different walls so it's a much 07:18 larger dining room 07:20 so it's gone through different 07:21 iterations but it's definitely been 7 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 07:25 the absolute 07:27 apex of what the Historical Society has 07:30 wanted to do and show off since they 07:31 acquired in 1932. so they were they're 07:34 rightfully proud of it and they've the 07:36 boards over over the years have done a 07:38 good job of maintaining 07:40 um its elegance 07:44 and thank you for that wonderful and 07:45 detailed intro and so 07:47 over the decades 07:49 the campus has really become 07:53 a cultural center for the community 07:55 where people come and gather and not 07:58 only have the ability to 08:01 see the artifacts that are on site in 08:03 the Wood slash Wicks house 08:06 but then 08:07 hear a living history of the town 08:10 through the 08:11 visitor center and the authors and the 08:13 speakers that you have there so it's 08:16 really grown from 08:18 a static display to a living 08:22 breathing example of our local history 08:25 and the people that have contributed to 08:26 it thank you for saying that that's 8 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 08:28 that's really our intention we we 08:30 realize that um we're right at the 08:32 beginning of uh the downtown area that 08:35 we we know that there are people who 08:37 uh come into town and want to learn more 08:40 about what's going on in Falmouth and we 08:42 try to provide that it's a bit of 08:45 education entertainment information 08:48 that we hope we can provide to people 08:50 through 08:52 guided tours of the Wicks House who are 08:53 walking towards the town through um 08:56 uh 08:58 lectures and talks 08:59 uh obviously through the through the 09:01 pandemic we've had to do things 09:02 virtually although the walking tours 09:04 remain in person and they've been very 09:05 popular with 09:07 because of the um 09:09 the pandemic we have to make sure that 09:11 people still wear masks when they go 09:13 into the Wicks House 09:15 because we don't want any docents any 09:16 volunteers any visitors to get sick but 09:18 then 09:20 but it's been 9 #pandemic �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 09:21 our way of kind of showing people how 09:23 the the town has changed how it's 09:26 progressed how things how things have 09:29 gone from 09:30 um 09:31 the Federal period in which the house 09:33 was built 09:34 through through whaling through 09:38 whaling captains and on through 09:42 tourism being the main 09:43 industry of the town so it's our way of 09:46 trying to give a doff of the cap to that 09:48 and inform people that this is what 09:50 happened 09:51 through the years 09:52 tell us a little bit about the the 09:54 whaling history and Falmouth it's not 09:57 something that's often discussed but in 09:58 the day was an important economic driver 10:02 for the community people forget that 10:03 that um that for about a 30-year period 10:06 this really was the business of Falmouth 10:09 and uh so from 1920 to 1820 1850 10:14 um Falmouth was 10:16 a major whaling port it was not 10:19 Nantucket it was not 10:21 New Bedford #whaling 10 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 10:22 but 10:23 arguably it was third and 10:26 there there were famous whaling captains 10:27 that went all throughout the world 10:30 if you go up and down Locust Street 10:31 there are whaling um captain's homes in 10:34 fact 10:35 um 10:36 the 10:37 the aforementioned Wicks slash Wood House 10:40 was actually a whaling captain's house 10:41 for the better part of 86 years so it's 10:44 um 10:46 as much as we focus on Wicks 10:50 and end with Julia Wood in between were 10:52 some significant whaling families that 10:55 lived in that house as well as other 10:57 houses in the town and uh until oil is 11:01 discovered in Pennsylvania 11:03 um that was really 11:05 whale oil was really the driving force 11:07 for Falmouth's uh economy for a good 30 11:11 years 11:13 so as you've noted uh in 11:16 one of the portions of the museum uh 11:18 there are 11:20 displays of #locuststreet 11 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 11:22 clothing and 11:24 different tools and artifacts from 11:26 Falmouth's history highlight a couple of 11:29 maybe your favorites or the the more 11:31 interesting items you have on display 11:34 well if you would walk into 11:37 the Wicks House 11:38 itself we want to give a guided tour so 11:41 you can go through everything and try to 11:43 see 11:44 uh furniture from the you know from the 11:47 18th and 19th centuries 11:49 china 11:51 paintings and portraits of of some 11:54 major luminaries from the town 11:56 um 11:57 if you go into 11:59 the Conant House right next to it you can 12:01 get a self-guided tour 12:04 of a timeline of Falmouth's past 12:06 I personally my favorite artifact in in 12:10 the whole collection is a 1939 jukebox 12:14 that was in the Falmouth Grange that 12:16 still plays 12:18 one of our 12:20 one of our members a long time had it in 12:22 his barn he passed away his widow asked 12 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 12:24 would we like it I 12:26 couldn't say yes fast enough 12:28 it took a couple years to get restored 12:31 but it plays beautifully and I think 12:33 it's 12:34 amazing to watch people of any age 12:37 understand appreciate and really 12:40 uh just glow when it plays so so you see 12:44 different things all throughout um 12:47 Falmouth's past we've got something from 12:49 the wreck of the Andrea Doria you know that uh 12:53 there are things that go back um 12:54 obviously there's a painting of the HMS 12:56 Nimrod which attacked 12:58 Falmouth in 1814 13:00 that you can 13:01 see an artist's rendition of that so 13:04 there's so many things we literally have 13:06 over a hundred thousand artifacts in our 13:08 collection much of it's paper and books 13:10 and 13:11 ship’s logs 13:12 but 13:14 we feel that we're the repository of 13:15 Falmouth's past and we try to do 13:19 a good job of protecting that past 13:23 in climate controlled environment and #andreadoria #hmsnimrod #1814 #warof1812 13 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 13:25 making sure that what we have 13:28 is 13:29 protected and ultimately offered for the 13:31 public to see 13:33 one of the uh I think 13:36 critical roles that the Historical 13:38 Society uh and 13:40 and your leadership play is 13:44 creating 13:45 uh 13:47 capturing today's 13:49 history so that a generation or three 13:51 generations from now when people visit 13:54 the Museums On the Green they'll be able 13:56 to get a sense of what it was like to 13:58 live today 14:00 and 14:01 uh this is conjecture on my part but I 14:03 would venture to say that when people 14:05 from future generations look back on 14:06 this era in Falmouth uh from an artistic 14:09 standpoint because you mentioned 14:11 paintings that they will look back on 14:13 Karen Rinaldo as one of the the leading 14:16 artistic voices of our time uh and you 14:20 have on display 14:22 one of her most prominent paintings tell 14 #karenrinaldo �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 14:24 us a little bit about that yeah I mean 14:26 um 14:28 Karen painted uh something in 1995 14:31 called The First Thanksgiving 1621 and 14:33 she actually did it for 14:36 a church group out of Wisconsin they are 14:38 the actual owners of it 14:40 and it's the one painting 14:43 that 14:43 has all of 51 surviving members of the 14:46 Mayflower the 91 Wampanoag who came to 14:50 visit them 14:51 who were in attendance at the first the 14:53 first Thanksgiving in 1621 and she did 14:56 copious research on this and it's 14:59 it's the one 15:00 obviously there was nobody there with a 15:01 Polaroid or with it with an iPhone but 15:04 it's the one painting that's got all of 15:06 them there and we have it till the end 15:08 of the year 15:09 um 15:10 then our loan agreement I don't know 15:12 where it's going to go after that but 15:13 it's been a real honor to have that and 15:16 uh 15:17 um #1995 15 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 15:18 so that's one of the things we have and 15:19 I’m really glad to mention that and 15:22 and thank you for saying two about the 15:23 future generations our research 15:25 librarian Meg Costello is second to none 15:28 and she does a great job of informing 15:30 people 15:31 of what has happened in days gone by and 15:34 and we we try to make sure that we tell 15:36 little interesting stories about 15:38 uh snippets of Falmouth's past we also 15:41 have tried to make it a point the 15:42 pandemic has kind of put 15:44 a little crimp on this and so we're 15:46 going to try to pick it up when things 15:47 get a little bit back to normal 15:50 as you mentioned one of the things that 15:51 we want to be able to do is to 15:54 acquire stories have oral histories of 15:57 people 15:59 from things that are not so in the 16:01 distant past that aren't necessarily 16:02 18th and 19th centuries that 16:07 if you stop and think about it and 16:09 not to make everyone feel old but uh 16:12 you know if you're in high school right 16:13 now you weren't alive at 9/11. you know 16 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 16:16 that that so that's 16:17 that's a story to you you weren't there 16:20 but we know that there's people in town 16:22 that might have attended Ted Williams’ 16:24 last game or their they watched Bobby 16:26 Orr play they saw the Beatles in at 16:28 Boston Garden or um 16:31 they made a they might have been living 16:33 in Boston during bussing or they were 16:34 working in Washington during Watergate 16:37 it's those kind of stories that we'd 16:39 like to accumulate while people 16:41 are still around to talk about them 16:43 because 16:45 there are people that is 16:48 maybe not ancient history but it's 16:50 certainly history so it's um 16:52 it's one of the things that we want to 16:53 be able to focus on it's not just about 16:57 um 16:59 yesteryear it's about 17:01 days that haven't gone that aren't all 17:04 that far in the rearview mirror but 17:05 people are still lucid and and and 17:08 can tell stories that firsthand 17:10 experiences 17:12 that are really 17 #watergate �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 17:14 important 17:15 to catalog and and to have in the 17:17 database so that's 17:19 one of our real uh points of emphasis 17:22 that 17:23 we really hope to be able to pick up on 17:25 when we can get back to some air fingers 17:27 normalcy and uh in this world so that's 17:30 I’m thank you for bringing that up well 17:32 it I think it it's an important 17:35 perspective because from the beginning 17:36 of time 17:38 up until yesterday 17:40 right that entire span is our collective 17:42 history exactly and so to capture the 17:44 more recent history is important so that 17:48 people in the future look back on these 17:50 times it's funny you mentioned Watergate 17:52 and 17:53 as I’m sure you know right here in 17:54 Falmouth we have 17:57 the gentleman who actually drafted the 17:59 articles of impeachment against 18:00 President Nixon lives here in Falmouth 18:03 uh I actually did not know that so 18:04 there's a bit of our history that that 18:06 we can share in this interview and uh #impeachment 18 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 18:08 and uh 18:10 he's actually a dear friend and a 18:12 volunteer at the Carousel of Light so uh 18:15 but I think that's the ongoing value 18:18 because I you raise an important point 18:20 Mark people when they think of history 18:22 they think of ancient history right yeah 18:24 and 18:25 to people of a certain age uh you know 18:28 that the 70s the 80s the 90s were part 18:32 of our lives but 18:34 to young people who were born after the 18:35 turn of the century that's 18:37 ancient history and so to capture 18:40 that's why these oral histories are so 18:42 important because it allows us to just 18:44 have a conversation about 18:46 our community and what 18:49 uh 18:49 all of that collective history has led 18:51 us to the to be the community we are 18:53 today I’m into that I mean it we we tend 18:56 to think that if it happened in our 18:58 lifetime it's quote not cool or just 19:00 it's not that important well we've gone 19:02 through some pretty 19:04 major things in our lifetime you know 19 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 19:05 that uh 19:07 um you know we just mentioned 9/11 which 19:09 is you know epic but you know 19:11 that 19:12 I’m sure that there were people in the 19:14 town that were at Woodstock you know 19:16 that that that uh or that protested 19:19 against the war or served in Vietnam or 19:21 served in Afghanistan or 19:23 um may not have anything to do with the 19:25 military but that they they were 19:28 they were at Fenway Park when the Red 19:30 Sox won you know that 19:32 you know look as I’m a lifelong Chicago 19:34 Cubs fan I finally got to live long 19:36 enough to see the Cubs win a World 19:37 Series I didn't think that was going to 19:38 happen 19:40 but it's those kind of memories it's 19:42 those kind of 19:44 pass-downs that we want to be able to 19:46 capture record and set and savor 19:50 for 19:52 current grade school high school kids 19:54 and their kids you know that uh what was 19:56 it like when 19:57 you know people forget that we're going #redsox #chicagocubs #worldseries 20 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 19:59 through this golden era of 20:01 the Patriots 20:03 what was it like when Vinatieri’s kick 20:05 went through and you won it for the 20:06 first time 20:07 wow this is awesome that the that you 20:10 finally got to see the Bruins win the 20:11 Stanley Cup 20:13 you know it's those kind of things that 20:16 uh while they're fresh in your mind you 20:18 want to be able to um to to detail and 20:21 to record and say this is what it was 20:24 like 20:25 or how you felt when the ball went 20:26 through Buckner’s legs 20:28 so as a Cubs fan I’m sure that was not 20:30 as crushing to you as it was to me I uh 20:34 look I I I have no love for the Mets 20:38 so for those watching who weren't alive 20:40 in 1986 uh that was when the Red Sox 20:43 lost game six of the World Series to the 20:44 New York Mets for me it's 1984 watching 20:47 the ball go through William Durham’s 20:48 legs but yeah 20:50 but all of that 20:52 it is relevant to our discussion because 20:53 it's part of our local history and so 21 #1986 #1984 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 20:56 it's great to have you to be able to to 20:58 share that with us and to catalog it for 21:00 future generations 21:03 what else would you like to share with 21:04 us 21:05 speak to a future generation of 21:07 Falmouthites and and talk to them about 21:09 what it's like to be in Falmouth in 2021 21:11 well I think it's been it's been really 21:13 interesting watching the world go by and 21:16 how people have 21:18 really had to 21:20 retrench 21:21 and 21:25 re-prioritize things because of the 21:27 pandemic I mean 21:28 as a history major as somebody who used 21:30 to teach history or something who's paid 21:32 to to educate people in history it's 21:35 it obviously hits me at my core 21:37 when watching history getting 21:40 devalued and de-emphasized in school 21:43 curriculum that that that cuts and it 21:45 hits me where I live 21:47 so I want people to understand 21:49 what it is that we went through and why 21:51 history is important and that's why we 22 #2021 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 21:53 do as many of the 21:56 the talks as we do and and doing them 21:58 virtually 22:00 um 22:01 I can ask just about anyone from just 22:03 about anywhere to talk about just about 22:05 anything historically and the worst 22:07 thing they can say is no that if they're 22:09 doing it from their house 22:11 that if Troy Clarkson is in Seattle and 22:14 he's got a book about 22:17 fill-in-the-blank historical topic 22:20 I can ask you to talk about it and we 22:22 can we can discuss things that might be 22:26 of 22:28 current interest 22:30 be it what's going on in in the world of 22:33 politically uh socially economically 22:36 and put it into some kind of a 22:38 historical context we don't have to get 22:39 into it into any kind of 22:42 take political positions but but we can 22:44 sit there and kind of educate about 22:47 why this is relevant and germane 22:50 so for me 22:53 I think that being in Falmouth in 2021 22:57 and 23 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 22:58 what's been really gratifying for me and 23:01 we're at the studios of FCTV for 23:04 right now 23:05 is knowing that 23:07 people like Debbie Rogers at FCTV have 23:10 been there 23:11 all along to make sure other non-profits 23:13 are still doing okay that 23:16 um 23:17 that we're making sure that 23:20 restaurants are still surviving and that 23:23 the the library is reopening to people 23:25 and 23:26 um that it's been difficult 23:29 to watch businesses that had been 23:32 thriving prior to all of this 23:35 not 23:36 or maybe go under it's it's been it's 23:39 been heartbreaking and um 23:41 I’m 23:42 I’m very gratified for the fact that 23:45 we've been able to endure this we've had 23:48 some 23:49 great supporters great members great 23:51 donors 23:52 who have made sure that we didn't 23:55 suffer as much as we could have 24 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 23:58 but there's other businesses that can't 24:00 necessarily say that so I 24:03 I 24:05 the pandemic has taught us lessons in 24:07 business as to what we can do and 24:09 prioritize and maybe do a little bit 24:11 better 24:13 but I don't wish this on anyone you know 24:15 that this is 24:16 this 24:17 I can think of other ways to have fun 24:19 and this this has not been one of them 24:21 but I’m I’m very uh gratified for those 24:24 who have 24:25 banded together and 24:28 tried to weather the storm you know that 24:30 we are going to be doing something 24:31 called the One Falmouth project there's 24:33 14 non-profits 24:35 that are going to do a a televised event 24:38 we hope in the first quarter of 2022 24:40 to try to show that we're still around 24:42 and we still need support we're still 24:44 going to be here and we and we want this 24:45 to be the first of many iterations of 24:47 that 24:49 but #onefalmouth #2022 25 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 24:49 that's been a real 24:52 um gratifying takeaway for me is that 24:54 there's been 24:56 we've been able to stand together and 24:58 you know it you know it's that uh famous 25:00 historic line about from uh from the 25:03 Revolutionary War if we don't hang 25:04 together all hang separately and uh I 25:06 think that we've we've hung together 25:09 that's a great way to wrap it up we are 25:11 indeed one Falmouth and thank you for 25:13 spending a little time with us here to 25:15 be able to capture 25:17 Some of Falmouth's history and and what 25:19 it means uh to all of us moving forward 25:22 so Mark Schmidt thank you very much and 25:23 uh it's been great visiting with you 25:25 thank you for having me it's been a real 25:26 pleasure and honor 26 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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