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book sale
Central Park
East Falmouth Library
FFPL
FFPL newsletter
FPL website
Jill Erickson
Joy of Learning
Katharine Lee Bates
Lenny Miele
Marilyn Sanborn
Meg Borden
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Voice of the Tide
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HOLIDAY BOOK SALE
Member Preview
Friday,
December 6
12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Opening Day
Saturday, December 7
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Day 2
Sunday,
December 8
12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Day 3
Monday, December 9
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Closing Day
Tuesday,
11 p.m. – 8 p.m.
December 10
Newsletter
Friends of the
Falmouth Public Library
Fall 2019
SUMMER BOOK SALE
PHOTOS BY PAUL DREYER
If you would like to volunteer at the Sale, please call
Deb DeMello at 508-457-2555, ext. 2918.
Fall Schedule 2019
Please See Details Inside
Details Inside!
�LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
The Summer Book Sale on the Library lawn was a whopping success
this year, thanks to the efforts of our Book Sale team led by Deb
DeMello. A special thank you to Edwina Yee, Deborah Winograd,
and Dale Green, whose willingness to step in went above and beyond.
Our sale would not happen if it were not for the persistent efforts of
our Book Room team and the more than a hundred volunteers who
generously donate time and talent. Whether you were there as a
worker or as a customer, all contributions are deeply appreciated.
One highlight of this year’s sale was the presence of the Book Bike.
Thank you to the Librarians who took turns spending time with our
patrons. With the summer event behind us, the Book Sale team has
already turned its attention to the Christmas Sale, details of which are
found later in this Newsletter. Many people have expressed interest in
helping with the book sales or in other ways. Once the summer activities settle a bit someone will be contacting you via email or phone to
let you know where help is needed. We’ll especially be looking for
people who may be interested in sorting, pricing and/or packing
books with us in the Book Room. Please remember to let us know of
changes to your home address or your email. If you travel in the
winter and prefer to receive communications from the Friends via
email please let us know. Friends of Falmouth Public Library can be
reached at friends@falmouthpubliclibrary.org. I can be reached at
mtamucci@outlook.com. Happy Reading!
JOY OF LEARNING FALL 2019 SCHEDULE
FFPL Board
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Asst. Treasurer
Recording Sec’y
Member-at-large
Member-at-large
Mary Tamucci
Lenny Miele
Rob Gillis
Mary Tamucci
Deb Winograd
Christie Couch
Edwina Yee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Mondays, October 7, 21, 28 & November 4, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
There will be no class on Columbus Day, October 14. The library is closed.
Through shared inquiry participants will explore the ideas, meaning, and themes presented in Fahrenheit 451.
Committee Chairs
Programs
Book Sales
Book Sales
Book Sales
Amazon
Book Nook
Membership
Publicity
Newsletter
This program, while still sponsored by the Friends, is now being administered by the Reference
Dept. To register, please call the Reference Dept. at Falmouth Public Library, 508-457-2555 x 7,
register online at falmouthpubliclibrary.org/register, or stop by the reference desk.
We will focus on the context under which Bradbury wrote the novel including Nazi book burning, the McCarMarilyn Sanborn
Deb DeMello
Willie Lochhead
Edwina Yee
Nancy English
Pat Parker
Deb DeMello
Dave Durfey
Lenny Miele
Marilyn Sanborn
Jane Hewitt
thy era, the House Un-American Activities Committee; and Bradbury’s concerns about how mass media may
reduce the interest in literature. Format: discussion of assigned readings in a complimentary copy of the book.
Discussion Leader: Joanne Holcomb.
Lifestyle and Brain Health
Tuesdays, October 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
This series of discussions will focus on how lifestyle influences our brains and its functions, including learning,
memory, and mood. Topics will include stress, sleep, exercise, and social interactions. Some basic introductory
concepts in brain science will be presented; no background is necessary. Format: presentation and discussion.
Discussion Leader: Michael Zigmond.
Short Story Selections: Alice Munro
Friends of the Falmouth Public Library
PO Box 480, Falmouth, MA 02541
508-457-2555, ext. 2918
Mary Tamucci
Wednesdays, October 2, 16, 23 & 30, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. There will be no class on October 9.
Through shared inquiry and discussion, participants will explore selected stories in Alice Munro’s short story
collection, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001). Format: discussion of assigned readings
in a complimentary copy of the book. Discussion Leader: David Webb.
LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
Quaker Roots of Colonial Falmouth
Wednesdays, October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Class begins the second Wednesday of the month.
Learn about the Quakers and the founding of Falmouth, their influences on the colonial town, and tales of
The Friends are looking for volunteers to help in the book donation room at the main library. Compensation: all the
good conversation and laughter you can handle. Benefits: meeting some new soon-to-be friends and getting the first
look at books being donated! If you can work 2-3 hours, a couple of times per month, this is the place to be.
settlers and their influences through the Civil War. Format: lectures with slides. Lecturers: Abigail Reynolds and
David Young.
Korea: 1950 – Today: America’s Forgotten (and Longest) War
OPENINGS
Sorters – receiving and sorting incoming donations
Box handlers – moving boxes of sorted books to the warehouse
Pricing and Packing – looking up book values and packing them for future sales
Thursdays October 10, 17, 24 & 31, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This course will trace the origins of the Korean War as a proxy war between the USA, with United Nations
support, and the Soviet Union and China. Major emphasis will be on the fighting during 1950 and 1951, the
Inchon landings, and General MacArthur's disastrous decision to pursue the North Korean army to the Yalu
River, bringing the Chinese into the war, and ultimately leading to a deadly strategic stalemate only ended by
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CONTACT US
Email: friends@falmouthpubliclibrary.org
Phone: 508-457-2555 ext. 2918
the 1953 armistice. Recent developments in the relationship between the USA and North Korea will also be
discussed. Format: lectures with slides. Lecturer: Michael McNaught.
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�EAST BRANCH LIBRARY NEWS
LIBRARY STATUES
The East branch will host children’s events Monday through
Wednesday starting September 16. In addition to the FPL
Youth Services sponsored story time, the Coalition for Children will offer language inspired programs two mornings a
week. This follows another successful Summer Eats Program
where we were able to offer entertainment three days per
week. Thanks to Falmouth Fiddlers and Crooked Coast for
volunteering to perform. Friends’ donations supported seven
events ranging from a “Bully Education and Magic Show” to
“Rainforest Reptiles.” To say the children were engaged at the
library during the summer would have been an understatement. The Youth Services staff at the main library
provided support for the Summer Reading program and the Coalition for Children offered a weekly event. The
Fact & Fiction Book Discussion group has a robust following. With support from the Friends I was able to
order extra copies of the English translation of Chiquinho: a novel of Cabo Verde by Baltazar Lopes. Other
groups may be interested in borrowing multiple copies of this title to explore our local Cabo Verde (Cape
Verdean) heritage. If you have not visited the branch lately, please do, since you will be surprised at the new
furnishings inside and the landscaping on the outside. You might just be tempted to sit on the sofa overlooking
Mill Pond, open a book, and stay awhile.
The library has acquired many statues and paintings through the years that often go unnoticed by library patrons.
Three sculpted works, in particular, were generous gifts to the library and deserve special attention.
KATHARINE LEE BATES STATUE
The Falmouth Historical Society celebrated the 160th birthday of Katharine Lee Bates
on August 12 on the grounds of the Falmouth Public Library. Central to this occasion
was the statue of Katharine Lee Bates that stands on the front lawn of the library. This
statue was commissioned by the trustees of the library in 1984 to celebrate the tercentennial of the town of Falmouth. Sculptor Lloyd Lillie, a professor at Boston University,
created the nearly life-sized bronze statue of Katharine Lee Bates, which is just over six
feet high and weighs 1,000 pounds. She is portrayed on Pikes Peak in Colorado at the
moment she was inspired to write “America the Beautiful” in 1893. The granite base of
the statue weighs four and a half tons and represents the mountains above the timber
line. Katharine Lee Bates is wearing hiking boots, carries a straw hat in her right hand, reaches for an outcrop of
rock with her left hand, and is adorned with her ever-present pince nez eyeglasses. Lloyd Lillie used poetic license
to make Katharine appear thinner than she really was. Katharine often joked about her weight, once recalling to
a friend that when she was six years old she was “a fat little girl in a blue sunbonnet.” Before she died she made
plans for her death and good-naturedly asked that her “tired remains” be cremated, and the disposal of her
“mortal remains be effected with simplicity, economy, and good cheer....I like to think how light they’ll be.”
Meg Borden, Branch Librarian
BOOK REVIEW
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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith
Ever wonder what it would be like to grow up in a large family of nine
children? What if that family became nationally and internationally rich
and famous? What if that family spent lots of family time on Cape Cod?
Well, The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith tells
you that story. She is the eighth child of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and the only remaining sibling alive to tell the many
stories of this family’s adventures, sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic.
She reveals the values her parents instilled in them each day: a work ethic,
love and appreciation of country and the need to give back to community.
“No whining in this house” was the father’s decree. They learned to not
only get along with each other but also to appreciate each other’s talents.
The siblings were very loyal to each other. Jean Smith Kennedy relates a
history of each Kennedy child growing up on Cape Cod and elsewhere in the world. For those of us who appreciate United States and Cape Cod history, this is a window on the life of one of the country’s most famous and
influential families. This is both an informative and enjoyable book. I recommend it. Ann Nagel Stone
AIRFOIL
An abstract piece of stone art titled “AirFoil” stands next to the library’s east parking lot.
This sculpture was given to the library as an unrestricted gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Hilton Simmons in memory of Katharine Lee Bates. In 1986, Robert Simmons commissioned sculptor Robert DuBourg, of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, to design “Airfoil,” which
was formally titled “Rotational Solid ‘Airfoil’: For Spacious Skies.” “Airfoil” is constructed
of pink variegated Georgia marble, whose surface changes color throughout the day. It is
7’6” high and weighs approximately 1,300 pounds. It was officially given to the library in
1989 and installed in July, 2000.
AMERICA
American sculptor Hiram Powers (1805-1875) created 15 versions of the bust
“America.” Two of them are displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and
Harvard’s Fogg Museum. A third bust sits high above the doorway in the library’s
Katharine Lee Bates lobby. This female figure was given to the library by the Beebe
family as a memorial to the men who died in the Civil War. By 1850, the statue became
symbolic of the Union as a statement against the Secessionist movement. “America” is
a bust of a woman who wears a crown of stars and is draped in a gown that covers her
left breast. She is carved from a single piece of white marble which is attached to a
white marble socle with a square base.
Lenny Miele
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Airfoil
America (sculpture)
Ann Nagel Stone
book review
book sale
East Falmouth Library
FFPL
FFPL newsletter
Hiram Powers
Jean Kennedy Smith
Joy of Learning
Katharine Lee Bates
Lenny Miele
Lloyd Lillie
Mary Tamucci
Meg Borden
Robert DuBourg
sculpture
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy
volunteering
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: February 24, 2020
Oral Historian: Reverend Jonathan Drury
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: First Congregational Church
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
00:00
[Music]
00:44
so welcome
00:45
thank you and my first question to you
00:47
is I’d like to begin by
00:48
asking you to tell us your full name and
00:51
the postcard you'll be discussing and
00:52
you can certainly show it to us
00:54
my name is Jonathan Drury I’m the 24th
00:57
pastor of the First Congregational
#firstcongregationalchurch
Hunt_Village_Bldg_001
Hunt_Village_Sts_152
Gunning_Village_Sts_0073
Gunning_Village_Bldg_0346 through
0365
00:58
Church in Falmouth
00:59
uh this is the postcard that I’m going
01:01
to be discussing that's a photograph
01:03
of or a picture I don't know if it's a
01:05
photograph
01:06
um of the church that is taken from the
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01:09
south side of the green
#falmouthvillagegreen
See above for postcard views of the
First Congregational Church on the
Green
01:12
and there's a number of other postcards
01:15
of this church
01:16
here's another example
01:21
it's a very prominent structure on the
01:24
green
01:24
probably the most prominent structure on
01:26
the green and so I I thought I’d talk a
01:28
little bit about the history of
01:30
the buildings that have supported the
01:32
Congregational Church over the years
01:34
the First Congregational Church in
01:36
Falmouth was established in 1708
01:39
and it was established at the same time
01:40
that the town of Falmouth was
01:42
established
01:43
so the congregation was an offshoot of
01:45
the West Parish in Barnstable
01:48
which claims to be the oldest
01:49
congregation on Cape Cod they were
01:51
established in 1614.
01:54
um so this is you know for for American
01:56
history this
01:57
predates our nation by easily 150 years
#1708
#westparishofbarnstable
#1614
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so it's it's pretty remarkable
02:02
um 1708 a group of people decided that
02:05
they wanted to establish their own
02:07
congregation
02:08
and to do that they also had to
02:09
establish a meeting house where there
02:11
could be
02:13
some form of governance some some
02:15
structure of governance so
02:17
initially the the first meeting house
02:19
was built off of Mill Road in the old
#millroad #oldburyingground
Gunning_Village_Sts_0001 through
0016
Hunt_Village_Sts_075 through 178
02:21
burial ground
02:22
and it was likely built sometime between
02:24
1690 and 1700
02:27
that would have also been the seat of
02:29
governance for Falmouth at the time
02:31
and it was a very simple structure as
02:33
far as I know
02:34
had no paint had no heat no organ no
02:37
bell
02:38
um the Puritans were were
02:43
their approach to purity included
02:45
aesthetics and
#puritan
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02:47
they they didn't need much in terms of
02:49
artifice
02:52
later on there was another
02:55
meeting house built on that location
02:58
this was a
03:00
meeting house built in 1717 that was
03:03
actually
03:05
designed to look just like the meeting
03:07
house in
03:08
Barnstable so they they very much saw
03:10
themselves as an offshoot of that
03:12
congregation
03:13
and then in 1750 the first church
03:18
was moved to the from the old burial
03:21
ground
03:22
to the brand new green space that had
03:25
been established in Falmouth what we
03:26
think of now is the town green
03:28
the town green initially was actually
03:30
kind of the front lawn of the church
03:32
because the church was built on the
03:33
south end of of the green
03:36
in 1750 and at that time there were
03:40
roads but it was not divided the way it
03:42
is today um
03:43
there were you know dirt roads that were
#1717
#1750
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03:46
used for
03:47
horses and and buggies um but they were
03:50
not in the same
03:52
location that our current roads are in
03:54
the green was much larger and what's
03:55
also kind of interesting about the green
03:57
is that it has always been a green space
04:00
um
04:01
before it was established as the town
04:03
green it had been a green space that was
04:04
available for anybody to use
04:07
for their horses and so it's the
04:09
equivalent of the parking lot for for
04:11
downtown Falmouth
04:12
and remains a green space of course
04:15
today
04:16
um that's also where the the local
04:18
militia would have gathered
04:19
uh to do their training um both for the
04:22
Revolutionary War then later for the
#americanrevolution
04:23
Civil War
#americancivilwar
04:25
which is interesting so in 1750 the
04:28
church was built on the south end of the
04:29
green
04:30
and it remained there until 1796 when
04:33
the fourth meeting house was built and
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04:36
at that time in 1796
04:39
a decision was made to outfit this new
04:41
meeting house with a bell
04:42
which brings me to a riddle the riddle
04:45
is
04:46
the living to the the living to the
04:49
church I call
04:51
and to the grave I summon all
04:54
what am I a bell
04:58
a church bell that's right that riddle
05:01
which is actually not a riddle it's just
05:03
a poem is engraved along the top of all
05:06
of Paul Revere's bells
05:08
so in 1796 the First Congregational
05:11
Church
05:11
uh commissioned a bell from Paul Revere
05:13
who was a bell maker in Boston at the
05:15
time
05:16
the bell that was purchased weighs 807
05:18
pounds and we have the original
05:20
receipt signed by by Paul Revere and
05:22
what's interesting about that receipt
05:24
is that along with having the price and
05:26
the weight of the bell
05:28
it indicates that the price was derived
05:31
by a specific cost per pound
#churchbell
#paulrevere
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#boston
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05:34
so almost like you were selling poultry
05:36
or something he sold his bells
05:38
42 cents per pound so 807 pounds
05:42
at 42 cents came out to just under 400
05:46
which would have been a small fortune in
05:47
1796.
05:49
so in 1796 that bell was put into the
05:52
steeple of the church
05:53
and has been ringing over Falmouth ever
05:56
since
05:57
which is quite remarkable
06:00
but the church was moved it was moved in
06:03
1858
06:05
the decision to move the church came as
06:07
a result of a very generous offer offer
06:09
from the Swift family
06:10
to give them a parcel of land the Swift
06:14
family was a very prominent
06:16
family in town they owned the first
06:18
mercantile store in Falmouth
06:20
they also owned the first bank in
06:22
Falmouth and they owned quite a bit of
06:24
land in Falmouth
06:25
um probably the equivalent of the Beebes
in
06:28
that regard
#1858
#swift
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06:29
they owned all of the land that exists
06:32
behind the church
06:33
and the parsonage which is directly next
06:34
door to the church extending
06:36
all the way back to Lakeview which is
#lakeview
06:40
the neighborhood behind the Lawrence
#lawrenceschool
Gunning_Village_Bldg_0232
06:42
School so all of the Lawrence athletic
06:44
fields all of the Katharine Lee Bates
06:45
Road
06:46
all of the land behind the church all
06:47
belonged to the Swift family
06:49
and in 1858 they agreed to offer a
06:53
parcel of this land
06:54
to the to the congregation the
06:57
congregation decided to take advantage
06:59
of this offer and to move the church and
07:02
so depending on who you ask
07:04
the story is that they either rolled the
07:06
church on logs across the green
07:08
I think that's very unlikely the truth
07:11
is most of the trees would have been cut
07:12
down by that point
07:13
to build the ships in Woods Hole so
07:16
there's a widow's walk on top of the
07:18
parsonage next door
#katharineleebatesroad
#woodshole
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and you would have easily been able to
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see the ocean
07:23
from that widow's walk today you can't
07:25
see those you can see a lot of trees
07:27
but those trees didn't exist when in
07:30
1814 when that house was built
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so they probably didn't roll the church
07:34
across the green
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um some people say that they put it on a
07:38
sled
07:38
and they pulled it across um which is a
07:41
possibility though I think that the
07:43
train wouldn't have really accommodated
07:44
that
07:45
it was a big building and then other
07:47
folks said that they parceled the the
07:49
church
07:49
literally taking apart piece by piece
07:51
and then rebuilding it in
07:53
a new location whatever they did they
07:56
didn't do it well
07:57
because within a year they tore that
07:59
building down and they built the fifth
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meeting house
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I say that the truth is the claim has
08:03
always been that the congregation was
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growing so quickly that they needed to
08:06
have a larger sanctuary
08:08
and needed to have a larger foundation
08:10
for the church
08:12
so we'll go with that but they did build
08:14
that
08:15
that church in 1858 the fifth meeting
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house
08:19
now here's some also some some
08:21
remarkable history attached to the
08:22
church
08:24
two things one we discovered not long
08:26
ago
08:27
that um the steps in front of the church
08:30
were covered with bluestone and we had
08:33
to add a new railing to the front of the
08:35
steps
08:36
when the the masons were doing the work
08:38
on the steps
08:39
we heard them kind of yell out they were
08:40
very excited I was hoping they had found
08:42
a box of gold doubloons
08:44
underneath the stone steps that wasn't
08:46
what they found what they found
08:47
might be you know an equivalent treasure
08:50
though they discovered that underneath
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the blue stone was
08:52
original pink granite some of the
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Falmouth granite
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and so somebody in fact we know is
08:58
probably in
08:59
1952 someone decided to put
09:03
bluestone on the steps we had lost track
09:06
of that
09:07
and so it was a great find to be able to
09:09
restore those front steps back to their
09:11
original condition
09:12
so um in 1858 these were what the steps
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would have originally looked like
09:17
in the process of of thinking about
09:19
those steps and looking at the steps we
09:21
also had some of the masons
09:22
bring to our attention the fact that the
09:24
whole foundation of this church
09:26
is made from that pink granite
09:30
and there is virtually a few hundred
09:31
tons worth of this pink granite
09:34
at this church so it may be that the
09:36
true value of the church
09:38
is really the church's foundation we'll
09:41
see
09:41
um but I I just think it's it's a
#falmouthgranite
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remarkable piece of kind of
09:45
lost history that was recently
09:46
discovered
09:48
one of the most interesting aspects of
09:50
that move
09:52
that took place in 1858 is that that is
09:54
the year
09:55
that William Bates came as the pastor of
09:58
the church
09:59
so William Bates who is the father of
10:00
Katharine Lee Bates
10:02
was the was one of the ministers of the
10:04
First Congregational Church
10:05
he served that church for one year 1858.
10:09
he was sick from the moment he arrived
10:12
to the moment he passed away in fact the
10:15
last service he presided over was
10:17
Katharine’s baptism
10:18
she was three months old at the time so
10:21
I’ve always wondered
10:23
was this seen as a great challenge for
10:26
the congregation
10:27
this decision to move the church during
10:29
this time when the pastor was not
10:31
available to offer leadership
10:32
or was this seen as kind of
#williambates
#katharineleebates
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an opportunity to make that move because
10:37
they weren't able to meet for worship
10:40
this was a chance for them to to make a
10:42
transition to a new space
10:44
as a result I don't know the answer to
10:46
that but I’ve
10:47
I’ve always been curious to know um how
10:50
that impacted the
10:52
the move itself not having William Bates
10:54
as the pastor or actively
10:56
engaged as the pastor at the time
11:00
so there have been a number of of other
11:02
additions to our
11:04
church building over the years in 1952
11:07
an educational wing was added
11:08
and then in 1992 as a result of a very
11:11
generous
11:12
gift from the Faxon family we're
11:14
able to build a Christian education
11:16
center the Faxon
11:17
Education Center and so the church has
11:20
continued to
11:20
expand and grow we really do think of
11:24
ourselves as a community church
11:26
we take to heart this this attachment to
11:29
the to the town of Falmouth and we see
#faxon
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ourselves
11:32
as a place where people should gather
11:33
and meet um to to be in conversation to
11:36
have potluck suppers to worship
11:39
um we've got really great parking
11:42
which is essential if you're going to
11:44
have people gather
11:45
we're in a wonderful location and so we
11:48
really try to open up the church as much
11:49
as possible
11:50
we're we're actively looking for ways to
11:52
support our community
11:54
with with our space um and it is a
11:56
beautiful space
11:57
I’m always surprised recently in the
11:58
last four or five years we've been
12:00
opening up the the
12:01
church on the Lighting of the Green um
12:04
in December
12:05
and it's amazing how many people come
12:07
for the Lighting of the Green
12:08
opening of the church has allowed people
12:10
just to come in and warm up we usually
12:12
have a little bit of a hymn sing
12:13
the bathrooms are available I’m always
12:17
shocked to hear from folks who have
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lived in Falmouth
12:19
their whole lives that this is the first
12:22
time they've been in the First
12:23
Congregational Church
12:25
I say that not as a pastor of a church I
12:28
say as someone who's just genuinely
12:30
curious about history and and the
12:32
connection of that church to the history
12:34
of Falmouth
12:35
I think that that church should be on a
12:38
short list
12:39
of locations where every single student
12:41
in our school system should come and
12:43
hear about the history of that church
12:44
I’d love to take them up to the bell to
12:46
see the bell but you've got to be a
12:47
little bit of a billy goat and
12:49
I would hate to lose any children along
12:51
the way um
12:53
but it is remarkable history and and
12:55
we're really proud of it and we really
12:57
would like to be able to share it
12:58
generously
12:59
with folks so the
13:02
the building itself is one of the
13:05
uh iconic images of Falmouth for sure
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yes and you've just described the rich
13:10
history one of the
13:12
interesting things that has emerged
13:14
during the interviews that we're
13:15
conducting
13:16
we've chatted with Rabbi Lieberman with
13:20
Reverend
13:20
Will Mebane yes is the shared history
13:23
uh of the congregations in the faith
13:27
communities
13:29
for instance the the Jewish Congregation
13:33
can trace
13:34
its history the building at least
13:37
to that same first meeting house that
13:39
you mentioned is that right
13:40
uh because the East End Meeting House
#eliaslieberman
#williammebane
#falmouthjewishcongregation
#eastendmeetinghouse
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through 0531
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which is today
13:44
the the headquarters of the Jewish
13:46
Congregation
13:47
uh was built and created because
13:50
uh the meeting house down at Mill Road
13:53
uh
13:54
could not accommodate a growing
13:56
community is that right
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so what's fascinating is that uh the
14:02
history
14:03
is a shared history it sure is and and
14:05
today that interconnectivity
14:07
yes uh Reverend Mebane used the same
14:10
phrase that you just use as a community
14:12
church
14:12
yes and and and so
14:17
uh today those faith communities
14:20
continue to have
14:21
yes we do a shared history and a shared
14:23
mission absolutely
14:24
I think two of the finest examples of
14:26
that shared history mission
14:27
would be the Service Center in Falmouth
14:29
so the Service Center which
14:31
which has a huge impact on this
14:32
community and is really the front line
14:35
in terms of responding to need there are
14:37
other organizations that
14:38
that provide outstanding support to
14:41
folks in need but I think that we all
14:43
consider the Service
14:44
Center to be at the center of that that
14:46
support system
14:47
that organization was established
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originally by the clergy in Falmouth
14:51
because they recognized that they could
14:53
not do
14:54
as much of the follow-up and the
14:56
background uh work that they needed to
14:58
do to be able to provide the the best
15:01
care available and so 25 years ago they
15:04
they got together and said this is
15:05
worthwhile and we should make it happen
15:07
and now
15:08
that has a huge impact on this community
15:10
another example is the Upper Cape
15:12
Chaplaincy which supports the
15:13
the chaplain's position at the hospital
15:15
that was also
15:17
a result of of the collective will of
15:20
the clergy in town
15:22
and we still have an active group of
15:24
people who meet together on on a monthly
15:26
basis to talk about our community and
15:28
how we
15:29
as the communities of faith should be
15:32
supporting one another and
15:33
and supporting the good work that's
15:35
being done by so many organizations in
15:37
this town
#uppercapechaplaincy
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I I feel this absolutely today you know
15:41
we are living in a time
15:42
where there's so much divisiveness and
15:45
division
15:46
um regardless of how you feel
15:50
about your relationship with with
15:52
eternity or
15:54
or the divine or not um
15:57
we are in relationship with one another
15:58
and our churches
16:00
and our um congregations have always
16:04
been at the center of of the community
16:07
and they should continue to be they the
16:09
our our
16:11
congregation should be open and
16:12
available as a place where people can
16:14
feel
16:16
you know not the divisiveness but the
16:18
the potential that exists in harmony
16:20
when we work together
16:22
to do good things and I think we're
16:24
going to have plenty of opportunities
16:26
to talk about doing good work with one
16:27
another in the in the next few years
16:29
indeed for sure so what does it mean to
16:31
you
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to be part now of the the rich history
16:37
of
16:37
the Congregational Church and Falmouth
16:39
and and
16:41
that the congregation itself has evolved
16:44
along
16:45
as the history of the building unfolded
16:47
and today
16:48
continues to be a vibrant part of the
16:50
fabric of the community
16:51
it does um you know I’m very honored to
16:54
be
16:54
in the role that I have been given and
16:57
I’m
16:58
really grateful to work with really good
17:00
people you know my colleagues
17:03
both within the the church that I serve
17:05
but also you know the
17:07
my fellow clergy folks and and the other
17:10
folks who are serving organizations in
17:12
town that we support
17:13
um I really appreciate the the good work
17:15
that they do
17:16
but also the members of the of our
17:20
congregation are really outstanding
17:22
people they're they're all
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very effective people and they're all
17:26
very much engaged in in this world I
17:29
will say our churches are trending much
17:31
older
17:31
and Cape Cod in general is turning much
17:33
older and so
17:35
I spent a lot of time with with my
17:36
constituency thinking about the end of
17:38
life and
17:39
and some of the concerns that that exist
17:41
around that
17:42
um it's all good it's all good
17:45
and and so I’m grateful to have that
17:47
opportunity there's a certain amount of
17:48
of
17:49
responsibility that comes with that and
17:51
I I am aware of it
17:52
um and I take it to heart and so there
17:55
are times where where
17:56
I think you know we we really have a lot
17:58
of work to do in Falmouth
18:01
there's a lot of need in this community
18:03
and it's not always apparent
18:05
right we work hard to make Falmouth a
18:07
beautiful place
18:08
and certainly we're aware that we have
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folks who visit us every summer
18:12
who come because this is a beautiful
18:14
place and so we work hard to keep a
18:16
certain
18:17
a certain beauty here
18:20
it's not a facade it's real but below
18:23
that beauty
18:24
below the surface of it there is another
18:26
community that exists and
18:28
there are a lot of people who struggle
18:30
there's a terrible affliction
18:32
that exists in this community addiction
18:34
is awful
18:35
in Falmouth there are a lot of folks who
18:38
are living right at the point
18:39
of of not being able to to get by
18:42
and so um I’m aware of that we're the
18:45
downtown church one of the downtown
18:46
churches and I
18:47
I learned a long time ago if you're
18:49
going to point at God
18:51
with your big steeple you better expect
18:53
that people are going to see that and
18:54
they're going to come looking for God
18:56
or you know the equivalent of that so I
19:00
take that to heart too we we try to do
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right by people if we can
19:04
it's a long answer to your question what
19:06
a wonderful one thank you
19:07
is there anything that we didn't cover
19:09
that you'd like to share today
19:12
there's so much there's so much rich
19:15
history if you had
19:16
an hour I would fill it um so I you know
19:19
I can't think of anything
19:21
specifically right now that I didn't
19:23
cover that I wanted to but if there's
19:25
ever anything
19:27
that you're curious to know more about I
19:28
would love to to come and
19:30
talk more about the history of of our
19:32
community
19:34
thank you so much you're very welcome
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