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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: September 23, 2020
Presenter: Tom Turkington
Host: Jill Erickson
Topic: Before I Forget: A Boyhood of Little Drama, by Tom Turkington
Available from Falmouth Public Library under 920.71 Turkington
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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good morning everyone this is a big
adventure
for both uh Tom and I this is the first
time
that I’ve done such a large Zoom event
with
people that I don't necessarily know
we've been doing a lot of
Zoom staff meetings um but this is quite
of a different level
and um I’ve also been hoping that we
could have Tom Turkington
talk to us for some time and I’m glad
that this this
morning is finally the time that it can
happen
um it's really a delight uh to
to be here and I’m glad that you're all
here
so let me just tell you a little bit
about what
what was the beginnings of this program
and
that is uh Postcards from Falmouth which
was
which is a special local history project
of the Falmouth Public Library
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that is based upon our historical
postcard collection of noted buildings
landmarks
and locations within the town of
Falmouth
introduced in 1869 as a way of sending a
simple message
postcards quickly evolved beyond their
practical purpose
to become the universal souvenir that
brightens everyone's mailboxes
and I have to say one of the things we
did when we were closed we would send
a lot of our patrons postcards which was
people
were delighted with um however postcards
also provide us with rare glimpses into
the past
and serve as a way of documenting
history
that is why we jumped at the chance when
we saw the opportunity
for a grant to develop projects that use
historical documents
such as our historical postcard
collection to discover unknown facts and
stories about
Falmouth during days gone by after all
to collect preserve and share such
resources
is what the Falmouth Public Library has
been doing since 1792
Postcards from Falmouth has been made
possible through a Library Services
and Technology Act grant which is
administered through the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners
this series of talks is also made
possible thanks to the Falmouth Public
Library Trustees
and of course FCTV and we hope by the
end of this series
that those of you listening will be
inspired to look at our postcard
collections
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and share your memories of Falmouth and
somebody who has
a lot of memories of Falmouth is Tom
Turkington
and I have to say I I have been
delighted um reading the book and I
think you will be
as well um Tom did write a memoir of his
childhood
in Falmouth which is a revelation in so
many ways for those of us
I’ve been here 30 years and I still
learn lots of things from his book
Before I Forget A Boyhood of Little
Drama
and there will be time for questions at
the end which you can type
into the chat so without further ado
although I will say I particularly Tom
liked
all the information about Panis
silversmiths I have a Panis ring right
here on my finger
and um uh Matt Pearson with whom I live
remembers this has many of the same
memories you have of Panis so
um a really uh a treat to read about
Panis and
and your relationship with Panis
silversmiths um
for those of you that don't know Panis
read the book if he doesn't mention it
this morning so I will now
give over the screen to Tom Turkington
thanks Jill for that nice introduction
after a long
awkward wait uh but that's Zoom for
you um
just myself I was born in Falmouth in
1949
and spent most of the first 18 years of
my life there
uh I was there for another 15 years as a
young adult I live in New Hampshire
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the book was my entry to this
program but you got to understand the
book
is not there was no research
everything in here um
just I drew it from my memory bank and
um
surprisingly enough people have looked
and said uh hey
there's a lot of details that how do you
remember those things
uh and so accurately and I guess I just
have a mind that that does that sort of
thing
it came about because I found as I was
I actually wrote it four or five years
ago I found as I was getting into my 50s
and 60s that
I sort of developed an interest in my
parents’
history my grandparents what were they
like when their kids
and what was the world like around them
what did they do with their time
and all that and of course they weren't
around to tell me
and it occurred to me that probably my
kids someday would get into their 50s
and 60s
and they would begin to develop the same
interest about me
and I wouldn't be around to tell them so
I put it down a book
and my own kids in
30 or 40 years can refer back and
know a little bit more about where they
came from
uh it is a memoir
so it's not about Falmouth per se
it's about me uh memoirs are like that
but of course because I was in Falmouth
people places events things that were
going on in Falmouth between
in the 50s and 60s are scattered
throughout the book
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this project as Jill was saying sort of
sprang forth from
postcards old postcards and uh
I don't have any postcards here as props
but the way I’m going to approach this
is to just sort of imagine what might be
on a postcard
and then ruminate a little bit about
that thing that could have been on a
postcard
and uh and do some readings from the
books that relate to it
one of the uh one of the most
photographed places in Falmouth
is probably Main Street and uh when I’m
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back in Falmouth which I often am
uh it's kind of fun to go down Main
Street and
look and of course there's been massive
turnover
as there always always has been but in
some respects hasn't changed too much
Main Street when I was a kid yeah you
could
you could get auto parts there you could
get your photos developed at Ortin’s
photo shop
you could uh yeah you could go to a
movie
there were two movie theaters on main
street uh
okay none of those are there anymore but
pretty much what you have now
is places to eat and places to buy
clothes
and gifts and really 50 years ago
there were plenty of places to eat most
of them were lunch counters at J.J.
Newberry’s
and that at the Rexall Drugs
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and at the Sandbar and you know all up
and down Main Street there were places
to eat but they were
fast food and it wasn't junk food it was
fast because you'd go in you sit down
Ralph Sullivan’d and come over say what do
you want
tell them a ham and cheese sandwich and
two minutes later there it was in front
of you
uh so now we have high-end restaurants
instead
okay that says something about the
economy
um and one of the uh
one of the other things that you used to
do on Main Street that you don't do
anymore is
you go shopping for your food
and there's a little something in my
book about
food shop
one indicator of the growth and
modernization of Falmouth has been the
evolution of the food stores
when I was little and we lived on Mill
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Road the closest thing to a supermarket
in town was the A&P on Main Street
it was right next to Town Hall which was
razed in the 60s to make way for a
parking lot in a nice little park
that's Peg Noonan Park there were other
food stores besides the A&P
S.S. Pierce for example but the A&P was
about it for general food shops
it was a little bit larger though not
nearly as neat and clean as the standard
convenience store today
there were maybe four or five aisles
half the width and one-third the length
of what we're used to now
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if you were over by the butcher shop the
smell all around was
meat getting old by the checkout lines
they kept the coffee grinders
very large machines considering their
simple function
and that whole end of the store smelled
of ground up eight o'clock coffee which
never got swept up
my lingering impression of a trip to the
A&P with mom in my early years is one of
having to deal with inconvenience
no place to park hard walking on a badly
ruptured sidewalk
difficulty opening the door sticking
wheels on the shopping cart
traffic jams throughout the store piles
of merchandise stacked in the way
long waits in line but the reward was to
watch
hear and smell the coffee grinder at
work
oh this is more I’m talking about the
evolution of Falmouth I’m not just
reminiscing on going to the A&P when I
was a kid
now comes the evolution first National
Stores was the first chain to offer
shopping relief to the beleaguered
Falmouth housewife
they opened up a snazzy new supermarket
at the foot of Shore Street
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either just before just after we moved
back to town
it had a parking lot automatic doors
wide aisles new carts
and sales and promotions of course it
was an instant success
which was noted by the Stop and Shop
chain which acted quickly and
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and onto some vacant eight acreage of
Heights corner where they opened up the
store that was bigger yet
and had a modernistic arched roof and a
huge parking lot and a few other little
stores attached
and reachable by a covered walkway and
they called it Falmouth Plaza
trying not to be outdone but being
outdone nonetheless the A&P
put up a new store on a vacant lot just
off Main Street
it was a whole lot bigger cleaner and
more amenable than their outworn old
place which became a stationary store
but not as much as the new Stop and Shop
or even bigger supermarket that was
later to come to the Jones Road
intersection
and most disastrous of all the fools
built it on Scranton Avenue
there it remained for decades poorly
managed
lightly patronized constantly emblematic
of the decline of the great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company
well if you were to buy a modern day
postcard
you wouldn't have to look long to find
one of Falmouth Harbor
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now Falmouth Harbor was on
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understand it Deacon's Pond was not open
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it was land locked and if you were
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you get to where the Clam Shack is now
and you just kept right on going
and the next thing you know you were
heading up into Falmouth Heights
uh of course this was pretty much before
automobiles existed
and I’m not sure exactly how it happened
but uh
I would say the town realized that there
were a lot of rich people now
starting to move into town during the
summer and they had
pleasure craft and the Old Stone Dock at
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foot of Shore Street was a was pretty
much a failure
and um so it's decided to
open up Deacon's Pond dredge it and make
a harbor out of it
at the time I lived there Scranton
Avenue was
practically a wasteland and I don't know
why it was very close to the center of
town
but Scranton Avenue which paralleled
right along the side of the harbor
uh there was nothing there there was if
you were heading up from Main Street
towards the mouth of the harbor
it was all field on your right there was
a carnival there every summer could have
had
the Barnstable County Fair there there
was that much open space
uh you got to Queen Street still nothing
still just feels
um and then
three quarters of the way down Scranton
Avenue it was bing bing bing bing there
were four or five
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very modest kind of weather beaten homes
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in a row and then again nothing until
you got to the mouth of the harbor
I’m not sure why Scranton Avenue was uh
such a pariah in town but
hardly anybody lived there um
but there was there was something
special about Scranton Avenue
I’m going to tell you about it
we moved there in
June of ‘58.
this was not the first time the
Turkingtons took up residence on
Scranton Avenue
the uninhabited wasteland between us and
Main Street
had been for one brief shining moment in
the late 40s
most densely populated neighborhood in
whole town whatever federal agency came
into being for the purpose of providing
cheap housing for returning veterans
built a colony of concrete blocked
road buildings dwellings
when Mom and Dad and baby Eric first
moved to town from upstate New York
that's where they lived we did not
coddle our young veterans
life here was rather spare and the
grateful residents moved out as soon as
they could find something better
which in our case was the house on
Fairview Avenue
just down the street my first home
the block dwellings were demolished when
the need for them passed but one
dominant structure remains until the
early 60s
it consisted of one very large room with
a couple of little ones at one end
I’m guessing now but it may have served
as a play and gathering place for the
residents
so here were rows of apartment-style
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dwelling units
with a community recreation building
open space
all around and an unobstructed view of
the harbor
dig it a rock bottom low budget
disposable development for penniless
veterans
served as the model for the vacation
communities for the bourgeoisie that now
infests
practically every harborfront site in
New England
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um Surf Drive was my beach and um
I think was was the first widely used
public beach
in Falmouth the first beach that was
treated as such with
parking lot and bath house and
snack bar and lifeguards and all that
I lived about a mile away and I used to
go there quite regularly
during the summer time um that's where
the Old Stone Dock was
you look at the Old Stone Dock now and
it's it's just a
pile of rocks that have been gradually
settling into the into the sea but at
one time it was
um it was built to be kind of the
original
Falmouth Harbor um
people would unload there and come in in
little boats and unload on the dock and
then
ship the stuff down Shore Street to
center it down
and other stuff would get shipped back
uh
I I don't think it ever worked out very
well just to look at it you see it just
wasn't that big and uh certainly wasn't
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that stable because it had to be rebuilt
a couple of times
but it was my beach and it was very
popular beach in those days
and one of its most popular features
and enjoyable ones was the raft
not there anymore hasn't been there in a
long time
I spent a lot of summer days hanging out
at Surf Drive Beach which was a public
beach a mile from home
the town had a multi-faceted raft about
50 yards offshore that offered all kinds
of opportunities for fun
it had a diving board just a few feet
above the water
a platform about six feet up and another
about 10 feet up
and it had a long slide with a shiny
metal surface that had a couple of burrs
on it that you had to watch out for
or you'd rip your bathing suit on the
way down if not your flesh
floated on two massive pontoons which as
long as they stayed watertight
kept the raft a foot above the water
this allowed daredevil boys to dive off
the raft swim under a pontoon
and come up for air under the raft we
played a lot of tag on that raft
there were all sorts of tricky extremely
hazardous ways to tag someone if you
were hit
one was to jump off the high platform
and tag a kid standing on the raft as
you went by
then swim under the pontoons and get
away
this meant that you'd be jumping from 10
feet up missing the edge of the raft by
inches
then going underwater and not being seen
again for a while
the beach committee provided this raft
for the amusement of their beachgoers
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with never a thought for liability
accidents that's what lifeguards were
for
now I it's hard to photograph
Beebe’s Woods but Beebe’s Woods has uh
#beebewoods
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um become if anything ever more
important part of uh center of town
uh there were two mansions up there uh
there is one remaining and it's been uh
grandly and uh oh
beautifully overdone redone
fixed up made into its original state
that that would be Highfield
it was also Tanglewood and these were
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the mansions that were owned by the Beebes
who uh bought
really just about all the land between
the railroad tracks
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west
north to south pretty much Sippewissett Road
almost down to um
huge parcel of land uh
in my time as as a kid uh
some sections of that all Beebe’s Woods
were kind of
sold off I think uh Greengate became
one of them
uh one development and Marvin
Gardens Marvin Circle became another
uh there's still a huge parcel of land
out there that
as of late 60s was about to be developed
it was very close to being sold to
some people who were going to just build
more green gates
uh and then J. K. Lilly great
uh benefactor of Falmouth
bought the whole place and gave
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most of it to the town the town has
since put in nice wide trails for
walking
and it's become a very popular place for
walkers hikers joggers people with dogs
uh it's a wonderful asset of course
and the crown jewel in Beebe’s Woods is the
Punch Bowl
which is a kettle hole a large pond kind
of way out and
you know back then it was out in the
middle of nowhere I think a lot of
uh most most
growing boys in town knew where to find
it could direct you to it but uh
you know they're just little beaten
paths i was very easy to get lost in
there
and uh but the Punch Bowl was um
was a real attraction and I had an
episode there I had many episodes there
there was one episode in particular that
stuck in my mind all these years later
Mark Denman and I hiked up into Beebe’s
Woods fairly often
not always with a trip to the Punch Bowl
in mind but we usually wound up there at
some point
our main activities were skinny dipping
smoking cigarettes when we could procure
them
catching and releasing bullfrogs
throwing rocks making funny sounds and
listening for the echoes
one fine June afternoon we were swimming
in the middle of the pond when we heard
shouts from the little rocky landing at
the foot of the trail
Denman Turkington
we looked over and saw Donnie Kudo and
Jimmy Carey
two kids a couple of years older than us
standing on the rocks
we've got your clothes and so they did
by the time we got out of the water they
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had a long head start and all of our
duds
shoes included we had that empty feeling
that he falls all of us from time to
time
usually when we least expect it this
time I’m really screwed
walking on clothes through the woods
wasn't the problem we were unlikely to
encounter anybody there
the problem was what happened when the
woods end
getting to mark's house was our only
viable option as he lived pretty close
to the edge of the woods
trouble was once we were out in the open
we would have to cross the railroad
tracks
run down a short unoccupied dirt road
then get to the other side of palmer
avenue
which was route 28 which was the busiest
road in town however we got through
all that we then would have to cut
through a neighbor's yard to get to the
little wooded area surrounding the
Denmans’
and then what hi mom I’m home and I’m
stark naked
so is Tom well we had plenty of time to
think all this through
and what we came up with was we'd skulk
through the backyards of some of the
homes this side of Palmer Ave
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looking for laundry we could steal from
somebody's clothesline to cover
ourselves up with
we couldn't find any which we probably
wouldn't we'd crouch in the bushes
besides route 28
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in broad daylight in a heavily populated
section of town
hoping to remain unseen until there was
a break in the traffic
then we'd streak across the road through
the neighbor's yard to Mark's house
get some clothes on and catch hell it
wasn't much of a plan but it was the
best we could do
then just a while before the end of the
trail we saw something up in the
branches a pair of underpants
and look over there a shirt and a pair
of sneakers in the middle of the trail
what good guys thanks Donnie thanks
Jimmy
sorry about all those awful things we
said about you hiking back
from the Punch Bowl it's truly amazing
how in a distressing situation appears
to be heading for the worst
and for some reason the worst doesn't
come to pass
we not only are grateful for whatever
prevented the worst from happening
but wholly unresentful of whoever
created the distressing situation in the
first place
relief is surely one of life's most
rewarding feelings
Falmouth managed to cluster all its
schools right in the center of the
village
first there was Lawrence Academy then
#lawrenceacademy
that became Lawrence High School
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next to the library right on Main Street
and that got too big well right across
what is now Bates Road from from the
high school
was the village school
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elementary school now the Margaret A.
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Mullen School right over there was a
Hall School which was for fifth and
sixth graders
and then when it came time to build a
new high school they just went across
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built a really fine new high school I
think this was 1953.
and to my mind that building
now called the Lawrence School and
Junior High School uh it's the best
school building this town ever had
and I hope it's there forever uh I spent
six years there
I was in the last uh the last class
it was built as a 7 through 12
and of course within not very many years
after it was built
it was overcrowded and
so they built a middle school over on
Morse Pond
um so I was the last in the last class
that started in seventh grade and stayed
there
through twelfth grade
um it's a very functional building very
attractive building
and I probably didn't feel so at the
time but
now that I look back on it I realized
that
most of my teachers there were really
very good
um I had one
at least one real loser of a teacher and
and uh
that fellow is get some play in the in
my book here
um but uh most of them
were really good um Miss Buchanan I
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locked horns with her a lot but she was
a fine teacher
um Jim Kinney
Earl Mills through the athletic
department and phys ed
these are people I have a lot to say
about
and I can't help thinking back on Pat
Moorman
she was my sophomore year English
teacher
she was very much one of a kind craggy of
feature and lean of build she had an
outsized personality
she was the tallest woman nay even the
tallest person in the school
her nickname among the kids was Moose
she was close friends or perhaps shared
a home with
a secretarial teacher Miss Ogden who was
the shortest
together they looked like Mutt and Jeff
like most staff members in the English
department
Miss Moorman had an undisguised love of
the language in its greatest classic
works
her personal predilection was for
grammar and syntax
we spent quite a bit of time diagramming
sentences in the classroom
and if there was within a kid the
slightest potential interest in this
highly analytic activity
as there was in me Miss Moorman could
come to it
she could get very animated trying to
get across to us the subtleties of a
complicated sentence
what really distinguished Miss Moorman;s
class aside from the total immersion
and grammar was her readiness to put the
lesson aside and expound upon subjects
unrelated to our work
prejudice politics human foibles life's
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ironies
she didn't so much engendered discussion
as inform us of her views and passions
she did so with vigor and then it was
back to the lesson
she was a tough grader and not very
understanding of excuses
but after many years at LHS she still
got a kick out of the kids
didn't hide that fact like most of our
teachers
she had her moments of cluelessness
concerning the ways of fifteen-year-olds
I wonder if there are any teachers left
who still instruct a room full of silly
boys
that an abrupt exclamation is properly
termed
an ejaculation not many I bet
together with my parents and a few
others she was on the team that left me
with a great appreciation for proper
artful use of English
low tolerance for those who care not to
use it correctly
when I’m confronted with a
professionally butchered piece of
writing
as happens more and more frequently as I
age
I can't help thinking or saying this
person
just wasn't paying attention in English
class
it's Miss Moorman’s class I think of them
um another thing about Lawrence was
um
why was it Lawrence I mean it was
Falmouth it was
the public high school in Falmouth
Barnstable High School Bourne High School
Sandwich High School every time you go
to
town has a high school supports the high
school
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high school is named after that town
except in Falmouth it was Lawrence and
um
I didn't really mind that but
uh I was on an athletic team
an athletic team that had an
extraordinary amount of success
go to big track meets and uh
a lot of us performed high and placed
very high in championship
events well one third of the people
watching
would think that we're from the city of
Lawrence oh no wonder they're good
they're
a big city they they got a lot of kids
to drop draw from
and about a third of the people thought
we were some hot shot prep school
downtown
ah no wonder they're good they uh they
can recruit from all over
and then the rest of people knew that we
were we were the public high school in
town
well we were we're proud of our town we
were
pleased to be from Falmouth and uh it
kind of irked us
that um most people thought we were
not what we actually were um
but this goes back to uh again correct
me if I’m wrong hey
nobody's out there to correct me so uh
1840s maybe 1850s there was a Mr.
Lawrence
had a lot of money big man in town
and uh offered the town a
substantial piece of money to um
build an academy uh sort of the first
secondary school and Falmouth
and um well thrifty Cape Cod is
only too happy to take him up on his
offer so
the only obligation was they had to name
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it after him
so that was the first Lawrence Academy
which I believe to be
now the building that is the Chamber of
Commerce
off of Main uh
town grew number of high school kids
kids going to
high school grew so they built a new
building but the name came with
that building was bursting at the seams
after a while so they built a new high
school and the name came with it
finally in I think it was 73
uh they built that new high school out
on Gifford Street
and decided to call it Falmouth High
School
any true history of Falmouth
any comprehensive history of Falmouth
especially mid-century families
would not be complete unless it had some
material
on the track teams
at the high school um
a little bit of self-interest here uh
I was involved with uh running sports in
two different ways
one as a runner in high school very
extremely dedicated and pretty
successful one
and then um as a coach I coached uh
cross-country at Falmouth for 13 years
later on
and was successful and also
lucky but
there was from the through the 60s 70s
80s um Falmouth
running sports at the high school were
were
known statewide for excellence
um it was Jim Kalperis
had the track teams in the 60s
John Carroll started up the girls track
and had
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extraordinary success through the 70s I
was coaching cross country in the 80s
but it all started with Kalpe
and I’d like to tell you a little bit
about it
now about Kalpe some new kids
including myself at one time might call
him Mr. Kalperis
and there are a few ass kissers who'd
call him Coach but to everyone else he
was Kalpe
he bore considerable resemblance to
Groucho Marx
from the hustling gait bent slightly at
the waist
to the mischievous dancing eyebrows to
the ever-present cigar
to the offhand commentary from the
corner of the mouth
to the vague but usually accurate sense
you got when he talked to you
that you were being caught you knew not
he was an operator who saw more clearly
than most
that if everybody follows all the rules
to the letter all the time
nothing worthwhile will ever happen
of course he was not all things to all
people there were those who felt he came
up and might
in the teaching of science which was his
primary job description
he was probably an energetic
knowledgeable instructor but he could be
distracted with
any is the time I’d wander off from a
study hall or a lunch break or another
class with a teammate to drop in on Kalpe
seeing us at the door he would assign
someone to monitor the class while we
all went into the adjoining
audio visual storage room to screw
spikes into racing shoes or
discuss the day's workout plot strategy
for the Dartmouth meet
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there was a rare enlivening mix of humor
gravity
and intensity of purpose in dealing with
Kalpe and participating on his teams
he became a coach of runners a year
after the LHS cross country program was
successfully begun under Don Jocelyn
moved on after that inaugural 1960
season
the team was then made up largely of
underprivileged black kids who so often
went through four years of high school
without ever tasting success in
school-related endeavor
the principal Mr. Marshall wanted to see
the program continue after Jocelyn left
and presently recognized Kalpe as a good
man to take it over so he asked him if
he would
he did Kalpe knew nothing about distance
running when he took over the
cross-country team
and nothing about track events when he
subsequently took over the track teams
but he started winning state titles
right away
as a coach he did not take an
authoritarian stance to put it mildly
I don't believe he ever took attendance
why bother
attendance was not required he never
said he had to be there
he established an atmosphere that made
me want to do that
he never made athletes do the work he
made them want to do the work what a
difference
it wasn't possible to rebel against the
requirements of team membership or the
demands of the coach because there
weren't any
he gave people a whole lot of leeway and
encouraged an atmosphere in which every
kid
felt he could be himself and achieve
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respect for
first from the coach and by extension
from his teammates
he was a master at reading an individual
and figuring out what he was in it for
and this applied to the adult world as
well as the track team
in later years when he was dealing with
the broader spectrum than sports
people often came to him asking for
something
his first inclination was to see to it
that they got it
that couldn't be done he tried to
persuade them that they really didn't
want
that failed he convinced them that they
already had it
it didn't often need to go further than
just looking at my watch here and uh huh
I could go on by the way I ought to warn
you
if you have an interest in this book
I’ll tell you for one thing
it's not out there on the bookshelves at
the
at the bookstores which aren't open
anyway uh
I believe it's still available on Amazon
if you want to get a copy that's the
place to go
um most of the second half of the book
I enter high school I enter Lawrence
high school
as a freshman about midway through the
book
and to be honest with you from then on
the narrative is very heavy on the track
the book's about me and
track was very important to me all
through high school I was extremely
dedicated and
it was my main focus so of course the
book is
the second half the book is full of
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track stuff
um I find a lot of my
memories of track some some pathos
some sorrow some joys some
humor so you know the narrative
continues but
a lot of it's about traffic be warned
but I also cover mentioned
I mean Cuban Missile Crisis
uh assassination of JFK uh
you know just the
you know nuclear test bans
um all the cultural and
world world impact
events that were going on that I recall
a lot of them are in here because I’m
not just talking about because these
things
affected me these things gave me
something to think about
and to wonder about so it goes into my
book
there's one here that we can
finish up with it has nothing to do with
postcards
very little to do with Falmouth um I
have a pretty long
uh section here about being a paperboy
delivering the Falmouth Enterprise to my
customers
but I closed it off with there was a
curious little advertisement that
regularly appeared in the quiet corner
of the enterprise
it read as follows are you having a
problem with alcohol
do you want to do something about it
call KIA
ding ding ding ding that was it
I wasn't sure what to make of it and
apparently worldlier minds than mine
weren't even
the New Yorker frequently lifted
published items or quotations that were
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peculiar or amusing that they merited
reprinting as space fillers at the end
of an article
in that venerable weekly
one day I ran across that familiar item
from the Enterprise
while leafing through the magazine in
search of humor
the notion of admitting to having a
problem with alcohol
and deciding to do something about it
was a laughing matter
to the editors of the New Yorker
it's it's funny we we talk about history
we talk about events of the past and
very often it's just little items like
that that you'd hardly
hardly ever think of that
really highlight major cultural changes
from one generation to another from one
decade to another
and here back in back in 1960
uh the idea of
wanting to do something about drinking
too much it was just
who would do that but there it was
so I’m going to call myself done here I
uh boy I could keep going through this
it's worth writing a book if for no
other reason than that
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a little bit of an observation that was
originally uh it was past
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um and I think this
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we'll still have the books
thank you if you have any questions I
should have mentioned this earlier if
you have any
questions or comments you'd like to make
please I think you're in contact with
Jill
she will be in contact she is in contact
with me
and uh let her know
thanks for joining in thank you so much
tom that was
great and so many great so many really
delightful stories um if anybody does
have a question that they'd like to ask
Tom
right now or a comment you can just open
up your chat
and I will read him the question if you
have something
um I want to also mention that I loved
hearing the bit
again about Clinton Avenue because I
think about Clinton Avenue all the time
and how it just
ends and then picks up in Falmouth
heights and how I would love to have
like we should do something to make them
connect again
you know a bridge a bridge or we should
have little
boats to go across there or something
seems like it must have been such a
different town
when Clinton Ave went right through and
that the people who live downtown
had would have had such great access to
the Falmouth
Heights beaches so except they would
have had to go up Scranton Avenue and
nobody went upstairs
for any reason that too is really
fascinating that Scranton Avenue
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it was you know just not there was a
place that wasn't there
and the the stuff about the grocery
stores is great I mean
it's just so delightful to hear about
what the town was like at that moment in
time
um and we're actually the the fellow
that's going to be talking tomorrow as
part of this series
um Gus Widmayer um has written a book
called the Belvidere
Plain Revisited and he talks
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also about Clinton Ave and how things
again
sort of developed and it will be very
interesting I think to hear that talk
as well it does not look like anybody
has
any questions at this moment in time
but I am uh really delighted
to have had you finally come to the
library if only virtually
I hope next time in your when you're in
found with you stop by the library and
say hello
we reopened the public yesterday so feel
free
to stop by um it was a real pleasure
uh to have you talk about your memories
of Falmouth
and a great addition um to this series
of talks that we're doing
so and thank to all of you that um have
shown up today for this we really
appreciate it um
and thank you to FCTV for making this
all possible
um in terms of making this this
tv part the work the um
it is again our first time doing quite
something quite of this level so
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we really look forward to it a pleasure
tom
to uh hear you talk and I
hope that you all will take a look at
his book and which of course the library
has copies of
as well as um the postcard collections
so thanks so much well thank you thank
you Jill so sorry to have uh
put you on edge at 9 55 this morning
when I wasn't
down but uh I it worked out fine and uh
this is fun for me too that's great it
and it did indeed work out we're we're
delighted
thank you again and um we hope some of
us who
join you to that some of us some of you
here will be able to join tomorrow
for Gus Widmayer’s talk um and then
we have a third uh story third
one coming up um on Thursday which is
Mary L. Martin who is actually
the author and owner of the world's
largest postcard shop that has just come
out
with a new book about collecting
postcards in fact she's written many
many books about collecting postcards
so that will be sort of a different
angle of this week is the postcards
angle
um thank you so much for attending thank
you Tom
checking out thanks Jill
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: February 24, 2020
Oral Historian: Reverend Will Mebane, Jr.
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: Saint Barnabas Church
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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so
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welcome and my first question is I’d
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like to begin by asking you to tell us
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your full name and the postcard you will
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be discussing
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so I am the Reverend Will Mebane the
rector
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at Saint Barnabas
#saintbarnabaschurch
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Memorial Episcopal Church here in
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Falmouth and I’ll be talk
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talking about the postcard that has the
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structure the building of Saint Barnabas
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Church and so
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Saint Barnabas church has a rich history
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in this community
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uh the cornerstones were laid uh
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many many years ago that's right uh by
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uh people with a name that still
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resonates throughout our community
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so tell us a little bit about that so
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there is no Saint Barnabas without the
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Beebe family and so that name does
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resonate
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throughout the community and to this day
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the cornerstone was
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laid in 1890 it was a memorial
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to the Beebe family the mother and father
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of the family
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by their eldest surviving son Edward
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Pierson Beebe
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the origin of the parish is
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somewhat interesting in that the Beebes
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were not
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originally Episcopalians they were like
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most folks in New England at the time
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Congregationalists but they used to
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summer in
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Woods Hole and the Church of the
Messiah
#beebe
#1890
#woodshole #churchofthemessiah
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in Woods Hole is the first Episcopal
church
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in town
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and they used to make the trek down to
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Woods Hole from Falmouth
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from the Village Green where they stayed
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at an inn
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for services on Sunday but that got to
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be
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old pretty quickly and the
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the family decided that they would
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prefer not to have to make that foul
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five mile trek down to uh to Woods Hole
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and one of their own parish now
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parenthetically lots of people in
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Falmouth say to me today
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Woods Hole is so far but can you imagine
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how far it was back in 1888
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having to use a buggy and carriage of
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horses to get down there
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but the Beebe children decided to
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when the James Madison Beebe died
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the Beebe children wanted to build the
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parish
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in memory of their mother Esther and
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their father James
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that's great and so and from that point
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uh
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there uh there is a long history of the
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development of
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the uh the the church itself uh and of
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continuing generations
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uh of of babies and
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uh and and other prominent members of
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the community supporting not only the
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building but the congregation itself
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so there's uh another interesting
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bit about the formation of
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Saint Barnabas parish originally
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the as I said the family was worshiping
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in Woods Hole
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and then they began to have the
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pastor from Woods Hole do services at
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the
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town
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town hall Falmouth Town Hall on Sunday
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afternoons
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and from that they decided to
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want to build their own parish but the
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in order to build a parish
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or to start a parish in a community
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you cannot do so if there is another
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Episcopal church within the same
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boundary
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not without getting approval from the
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standing committee
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of the diocese of Massachusetts and that
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was the case here
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and when the petition was put forth
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to start a parish in Falmouth
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the Falmouth village and it was not
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received enthusiastically by the diocese
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and in fact the
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president of the standing committee
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argued very forcefully against
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authorizing the formation of this parish
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and approval from the standing committee
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is necessary
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to get a new parish started so already
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in the beginning you have the president
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of the standing committee saying no
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to this idea because he felt that
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the Beebes were really trying to form a
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parish that was basically for their
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benefit only
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or primarily in fact the Sunday
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afternoon worship services
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were attended primarily by the Beebes
their
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family members and their guests
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and maybe a few people from the village
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so there was a um a struggle with the
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standing committee and the Beebes to get
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the church built
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but ultimately the Rev. Phillips Brooks
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who was at that time the rector of
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Trinity Church Boston
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very influential church then and now
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uh sided with the Beebes that he thought
it
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would be worthwhile to have a parish in
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Falmouth village
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and that really turned the tide turn the
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opposition
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and allow for the construction of Saint
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Barnabas
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the cornerstone was laid on the 11th of
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June in 1890
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on Saint Barnabas Day
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now there's doubt and
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about why are there questions about
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why that particular day was chosen what
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was significant about
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Saint Barnabas and the only thing
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that anyone has been able to discover
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today
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is that there was probably or may have
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been
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a family member with the name Barnabas
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in the Beebe family and that is one of
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the reasons they chose
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the name Barnabas for the parish
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very interesting wow so of course
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somewhere contemporaneous with that
the
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Beebes also constructed
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and had then two beautiful
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summer uh estates up on the hill yes
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that we now know today is Highfield Hall
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and the other
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uh is no longer there right that was
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Tanglewood
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right yeah yeah yeah so
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and they had acreage
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that now was known as Beebe Woods
right and
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so the uh
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the everlasting influence of that family
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is as you said very much still felt
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today yeah very prominent
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even today I think it was 95 acres if I
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remember correctly
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so since that time that the cornerstone
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was laid
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both the building and the congregation
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that is gathered there has seen
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quite an evolution can you walk us
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through that a little bit
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sure let me do that but I want to first
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talk a little bit about the
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architecture because that's what people
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are going to see on the postcard
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and so it was designed by Henry Vaughan
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known as the mentor for the Gothic
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revival
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movement in America he himself
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was an Englishman and the Beebes
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found him and from their connections in
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England and got him to come over
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and to design the the building
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made out of a red sandstone and
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that style for Saint Barnabas
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was the first in a series of nine
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churches nine parishes that Vaughan
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designed
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three of them in southern New England
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there's one in Swansea and
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one in New Bedford and then Saint
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Barnabas and the other
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six are outside of southern New England
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Vaughan was well respected but it said
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that
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he was not interested in fame or
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influence how well you did your work
was
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more important to him
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so the building has survived very well
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thanks to Vaughan's design
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and we still today get hundreds if not
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thousands of people visiting Saint
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Barnabas to admire the the beauty
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of the structure
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Historically Saint Barnabas has been a
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community parish by that I mean a
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place that was open to the community
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to organizations uh non-profits and the
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like
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to together and to
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hash out their strategic agendas
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and so we today do the same thing at
Saint
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Barnabas
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we like to be known as the parish of the
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community
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so we are constantly opening our doors
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and welcoming
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non-profit organizations and other
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entities
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to use our beautiful campus as a
10:07
gathering for
10:09
retreats and for organizational meetings
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and for community meetings of all types
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and so that legacy continues today
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that that's wonderful uh
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to go back to the architecture for just
10:26
a minute the
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architecture itself and the style it
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really draws a very nice contrast
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to the other more traditional New
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England
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buildings including the the
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Congregational Church across the green
#firstcongregationalchurch
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and to me that symbolizes
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what I call the mosaic of the community
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because
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all of the buildings around the green
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are shining tiles in that mosaic
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but Saint Barnabas in particular I think
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draws
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uh our attention to the fact that
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a church can look differently but still
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be very much part of the community
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you raised an interesting point about of
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the history
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of Saint Barnabas with the
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Congregational Church 19th century now
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and Congregationalists and the
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Episcopalians didn't play well
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together and
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in fact there's a story that has been
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verified that when
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Saint Barnabas was finally being built
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the spire and the tower
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fell during the construction
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during a autumn storm
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and a member of the Congregational
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Church
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remarked I am so glad that is exactly
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what I’ve been praying for
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and it took several uh
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years before the Congregationalists and
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the Episcopalians began to play well
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together
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uh fortunately the pastor at the First
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Congregation and I
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see one another a lot and we're very
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involved in lots of the same
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projects and causes around town
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but yeah they didn't start out that way
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but today both stand as pillars not only
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of the
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faith community but of the larger
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community and one of the
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the themes that's emerging during these
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uh interviews
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the topic is the postcards but really
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what's developing is a sense of how
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incredibly connected our communities are
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and in many ways through
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our faith communities yes Falmouth I
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think someone told me there's something
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like 27
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faith communities in and around the
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Falmouth area
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which is a large number
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and very diverse and we also
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have a Saint Barnabas has also had a
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very
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positive and cooperative relationship
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with the Falmouth Jewish Congregation
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for example there was a time in their
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history
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when they needed a place to worship
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and Saint Barnabas made its chapel space
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available
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for that congregation to worship and
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in the spirit of recognizing that we are
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one people under
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God and we should be being good
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neighbors
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to one another my concern today
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is for
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obviously the future of Saint Barnabas
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as well
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and I have concern about the climate
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crisis
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in which we're we find ourselves today
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it's been forecast that in within the
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next 50 years
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that what we now know as Surf Drive in
#surfdrive
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Falmouth
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will be at the front steps of Saint
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Barnabas
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that's difficult for us to wrap our
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heads around
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and but that is what the scientists are
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projecting and we have great scientists
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in this area
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and so what does that mean for First
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Congregational Church
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on the Green there and for Saint
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Barnabas on the Green there
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so it's not something
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anyone probably ever thought they would
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have to worry about but there is
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something now that is a concern of ours
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if there is a silver lining in that
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cloud as the communities in Falmouth
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have
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that history that you referenced of
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working together
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and helping each other out so uh
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being the eternal optimist that I am we
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see opportunities in the future
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yeah for uh for the faith communities to
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once again
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uh work together to ensure that there's
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a there's always a place to gather
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since I’ve been here I’ve been here just
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over a year and a half now
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and I’m grateful to my clergy colleagues
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from the other denominations and faith
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traditions and
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the reenergizing of the Falmouth Clergy
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Association
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of which I’m an active member myself
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because we do need to have that
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collaborative relationship uh because we
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never know when we might need one
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another for
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any number of reasons is there anything
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we didn't cover that you'd like to
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discuss
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just take a look here this will be
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edited yep
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yep
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there is one story I would love to tell
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but I don't know that it's
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true so I’ll share with you
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not for uh insert uh
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that Mrs. Beebe uh
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not only did they get tired of going to
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Woods Hole
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to Church of the Messiah but she is said
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to have said
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that she got tired of her
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petticoats getting dusty on the ride
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down two weeks old
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and that was the determining factor
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I would love to find out if that's true
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I haven't found that any
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anything I’ve ever seen so far no there
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was no painting back then
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right oh okay yeah did you imagine yeah
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I mean that was
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that was an effort uh let's see
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we talked about that
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yeah so this is going to be three
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minutes so I think you may have enough
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Kim has anything that you oh great idea
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what's that we'll talk about Strawberry
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Festival
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oh yes yes yes yes one of the
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I would say iconic uh
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event that connects Saint Barnabas to
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members of the community who may not
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gather there in worship
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is the Strawberry Festival which uh
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which brings together the
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agrarian history of our community uh
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with
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the parish of Saint Barnabas so tell us
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a little bit about that
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yeah so the Strawberry Festival uh is
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indeed a seminal event each year
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in the life of Saint Barnabas people
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come from near and far
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for this they they look forward to it
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each year
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we just celebrated our 90th Strawberry
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Festival
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uh let me check I need to check that
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that may not be right and
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because we have so many it was the 90th
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it was the 90th of the Christmas Fair
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not the Strawberry Festival
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Strawberry Festival has actually been
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going on longer than that
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I can't remember the exact it's a
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hundred and
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some years but the Strawberry Festival
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at Saint
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Barnabas brings the community together
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and what I’m most proud of
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today is that a
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significant portion of the funds raised
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from the Strawberry Festival
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go back into the community a
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conscious intentional decision
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has been made by the parish that if the
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community is going to support an event
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like the Strawberry Festival
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the proceeds from that should go back
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out in the community
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to support the needs of the community
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so it has had a very long history there
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have been times when
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there have been there's been concern
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about whether
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they could pull it off but somehow
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miraculously
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it continues and some individuals have
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been doing
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that organizing for
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decades that's great and then
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the uh
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are the strawberries locally sourced do
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they come from
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there was a time when they all came from
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farms farms in the area and people would
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go out
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members of the congregation would go
out
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and do the picking
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and I think we've had to
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upgrade to more contemporary means for
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gathering
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the strawberries now because of course
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I’m guessing
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uh more than a hundred years ago when
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the Strawberry Festival started
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a good portion of the land any East
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Falmouth
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particularly Davisville where I grew up
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were strawberry farms yes yes
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yes yes and Tony Andrews is probably the #tonyandrewsfarm
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only
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working strawberry farm left and that
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is where most if not all of the
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strawberries for the Strawberry Festival
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uh are sourced
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yeah that's one that's right yeah
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great well thank you very much for
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spending this time with us
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and sharing the rich history of Saint
Barnabas Troy
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always a pleasure to be with you I’m so
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grateful to the Falmouth Public Library
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for this series and I look forward to
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learning more about Falmouth’s rich and
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great history
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1890
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