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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: March 3, 2020
Oral Historian: Kevin Doyle
Interviewer: Barbara Kanellopoulos
Topic: Old Stone Dock
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
The Book of Falmouth is available from Falmouth Public Library under REF LocHist 974.492
BOO, as well as at other CLAMS locations.
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[Music]
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it's always fun to talk about the Old
#oldstonedock
Gunning_Village_Har_0173
through 0188
Hunt_Village_Bch_0089 through
0095
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Stone Dock
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it's uh it's a relic
00:50
of of what commerce was in Falmouth
00:53
during the 19th century
00:55
and you don't get to see things like
00:57
that along the shoreline much anymore at
00:59
all
01:00
in fact if you were to go down to the
01:02
shore today
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there's a sign that says it's the kiddie
01:06
pool and for all the world nobody has
01:09
ever asked why you would build a kiddie
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pool out of granite blocks
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but nevertheless it's uh it's all been
01:15
silted in
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but in its day and its day was 200 years
01:19
ago
01:21
it was built in 1817
#1817
01:24
following a hurricane of 1815
#1815 #hurricane
01:28
of course they weren't called hurricanes
01:30
then it was the great gale
01:31
of September 1815.
01:36
there are three hurricanes that have
01:38
really ravaged through the
01:40
New England area has lots of hurricanes
01:43
but the first one was in 1635 when
01:46
Boston and the and the Pilgrims and and
01:48
the colonies were just getting started
01:50
the second one
01:52
the same power and magnitude was the
01:54
Storm of 1815
01:56
and then the third one was a hurricane
01:59
of 1938 which
02:01
which people are far more familiar with
02:03
and they see pictures of the destruction
02:05
and so forth
02:06
but meteorologists will tell you that
02:08
those three hurricanes were very similar
02:10
in their track and their speed they came
#gale
#1938
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up the coast with a speed of 100 miles
02:14
an hour they were blowing 100 mile per
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hour winds
02:17
and they just destroyed everything in
02:19
their path
02:20
prior to 1817 then this Old Stone Dock
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there was a a dock that was made out of
02:28
wood
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uh and we think it was built in 1805 and
02:31
it would have been built out of palmetto
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logs
02:34
which is basically a palm tree uh
02:37
obviously no palm trees growing around
02:39
Falmouth so
02:40
once again a surmise is that probably uh
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Captain Swift brought them up in his
02:47
as part of his live oak adventures going
02:50
at getting wood
02:51
down out of the Carolinas and into
02:53
Florida
02:54
and so he probably brought these very
02:56
resilient palmetto logs
02:58
up to up to Falmouth there's not much
03:02
that
03:03
will verify that there was a dock prior
03:06
to this but it seems logical that that
#1805
#swift #elijahswift
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was
03:10
the landing place of some sort it was
03:14
the scene
03:14
of the British invasion or
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attempted invasion in January of 1779
#1779
03:21
during the American Revolution
#americanrevolution
03:23
they were repulsed they never landed
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they did shoot musket balls at us and
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they weren't too happy with us but they
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didn't they weren't able to land
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and the second time was in 1814 during
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the
03:35
towards the end of the War of 1812 where
03:37
once again
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the British came and tried to come
03:41
ashore they were repulsed again by
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by our cannons so it would seem that
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that's
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probably there was probably some kind of
03:48
a landing area in that site prior to the
03:51
Old Stone Dock itself
03:55
the other reason why you'd think that
03:57
that was probably true is because that's
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where
03:59
Falmouth was settled when the uh
04:03
the proprietors as they're called here
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#1814
#warof1812
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they're called different
04:06
different by different names but they're
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the folks who basically
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uh bought the land from the tribes the
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the
04:14
indigenous tribes Wampanoags uh and uh
#wampanoag
04:17
Nauset Indians
#nauset
04:18
which was a sub-tribe of the Wampanoags
04:22
and the proprietors here started in
04:25
Barnstable
04:26
and came down we don't know whether they
04:28
came down by boat or by
04:29
by walking but if you look down in the
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uh
04:33
down at the beach area today you'll see
04:36
what
04:36
what Jim Lloyd of the Historical
04:38
Department [Falmouth Historical Society?] likes
to call
04:40
Falmouth Rock he said Plymouth has their
#plymouth
04:42
Plymouth Rock we have our Falmouth Rock
#plymouthrock
04:44
we have a rock that says these are the
04:47
proprietors they landed here in 18
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uh in 1660 and so forth and
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and founded the town well the
04:56
the tribe had been here first obviously
#barnstable
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they came down and we
04:59
uh we followed a lot of the Indian
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trails to be here
05:03
uh and it makes sense because that area
05:06
of Surf Drive Beach opens onto a
#surfdrivebeach
05:10
Vineyard Sound and then it has Siders
#vineyardsound #siderspond
Gunning_Village_Pnd_0148 and
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Hunt_Village_Pnd_136
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Pond which is freshwater pond after
05:15
named after Consider Hatch one of the
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original proprietors
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is on the one side and on the other side
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is Salt Pond
#considerhatch
#saltpond
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which is salt water and oysters are
05:25
plenty and that sort of thing
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so there they were between fresh water
05:28
and salt water and the Sound so it was a
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perfect
05:31
location for commerce and just
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for survival you had the fish lots of
05:37
alewives the
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herring run is right there which
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is brackish water coming in
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from the sound and going up towards
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Siders Pond
05:46
so it's a perfect area to to
05:50
start the start the town
05:53
a lot of people you know are used to
05:56
seeing towns that have started from the
05:58
center and they move
05:59
outward because that's how the the
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railroads did it
06:02
when when railroads were built and
06:04
they'd go along every 100 miles or
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whatever the distance would be
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did make the town grow right from the
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depot and go
06:12
outward concentric circles for us it was
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different and it was different for
06:16
for almost 100 years the commerce was
06:19
coming off of the off of the Surf Drive
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Beach area
06:23
and the main area to to move was right
06:26
up Mill Road where the current Mill Road
#millroad
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through 0016
Hunt_Village_Sts_075 through
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goes between the salt pond and the uh
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fresh water pond uh and and on
06:36
up so the green was actually founded in
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#falmouthvillagegreen
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through 0078
06:39
1749.
#1749
06:40
so here we are at 1660 and then 1749
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about 80
06:43
90 years later before they got up to the
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green
06:47
so the center of commerce then
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was right there on the on the beach so
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this hurricane comes along and destroys
06:55
everything that was wooden and
06:57
through natural erosion you can imagine
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the other wooden piers probably gave way
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as the ships became larger or the
07:05
elements took took their toll on a
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wooden pier
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so along about 1817 then they say hey
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what we really need to do is build this
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thing to last
07:17
uh and I should probably just say at
07:20
that point
07:22
as I talked about the progression of the
07:23
town it goes up so it took 80 years to
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get to the green and then it started
07:27
heading to the east it started heading
07:29
back down
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07:30
towards uh towards Barnstable down down
07:32
Main Street
#mainstreet
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through 0041
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and after a certain point they realized
07:36
that so far the only road to get to the
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dock
07:39
was down Mill Road so here they are now
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they're up at Locust they're going down
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Main Street
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and they're getting further and further
07:47
away so in 1800
07:50
just a few years before the Stone Dock
07:52
was built but in 1800
07:54
the townsfolk got together and said what
07:56
we really need to do is go
07:58
from this point which was right where
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Barbo’s Furniture is right now
08:02
and go straight down to the pier and
08:04
that's why if you look at Shore Street
#locuststreet
#shorestreet
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through 0083
Hunt_Village_Sts_171 and 172
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it's eight tenths of a mile long
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it's straight as an arrow and it's its
08:10
objective was to get
08:12
people from Main Street to the dock
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uh that's what it was all about so
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uh after this great gale of September
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uh goes blowing through
08:24
the townsfolk got together and uh and
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built this
08:29
granite block now the way that's built
08:32
is they import it and there's some
08:33
question as to exactly what those
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granite blocks are
08:37
I like to think that the Falmouth
08:38
granite
08:40
underneath it all but of course after a
08:41
couple hundred years they're
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they're all black and covered with
08:46
seaweed and so forth so it's really kind
08:48
of hard to distinguish
08:49
the origin of all those granite blocks
08:52
but the point of it was
08:54
they would build a a a
08:57
line which which you see right now
09:00
actually uh
09:01
of of granite blocks and then they built
09:04
the
09:05
the dock the actual docking area right
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over it
09:09
so it's the same palmetto logs it's the
#falmouthgranite
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09:11
same planks it's the same everything
09:13
that you
09:13
used to seeing when you think of a pier
09:16
but this time they put the blocks in
09:18
there
09:19
so that it would be uh it would sort of
09:22
lend some extra support
09:24
to the the pier uh the piers themselves
09:27
and in
09:28
the uh the the structure of the of the
09:31
pier of the wharf so
09:34
that's what it is over time
09:38
all that all that wooden part you know
09:40
washed away again
09:41
but the granite blocks remain so why
09:44
wasn't it maintained
09:46
it wasn't maintained because as time
09:49
went on so that was built in 1815.
09:53
uh the gale was 1815 the the dock was
09:56
built in 1817
09:57
and things were going along fine but it
09:59
was about that time as
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uh the railroad came to town and
10:04
the railroad starts coming down from
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Boston and so forth
10:07
the Old Stone Dock is at least a mile
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away
10:11
from the railroad station and
10:14
it just didn't work you couldn't send
10:16
freight down
10:19
on a train and get it to the pier in any
10:22
efficient manner the train dead
10:25
ended
10:26
in Woods Hole and of course that's where
10:29
the ferry terminal is today that's what
10:30
the Steamship
10:31
Authority is and that's where the
10:33
trains met
10:34
the boats so commerce went there
10:38
it also it's a much deeper uh harbor
10:41
in Woods Hole than it is off of Surf
10:44
Drive Beach
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so the the question then became so what
10:49
happens now
10:51
it was a stone dock it was made for
10:52
commerce there were whalers
10:54
whaling ships that went there his
10:56
primary function was packet ships
10:58
and and by packets those would be ships
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that would sail when you had the cargo
11:02
they didn't necessarily go on a schedule
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you'd bring down your goods to to be
#woodshole
#steamshipauthority
#whaling
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freighted up to Boston or down to New
#newyork
11:09
York and every port in between all
11:12
down down across the Martha's Vineyard
#marthasvineyard
11:14
and over to New Bedford and Fall River
#newbedford #fallriver
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and so forth all those
11:18
uh all those ports between Boston and
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Falmouth
11:22
and uh and New York were the frequent
11:27
markets for our strawberries the eels
11:30
the salt cranberries and so forth wood
11:34
that was the main commerce uh forestry
11:37
and so forth
11:38
incoming timbers uh as well uh
11:42
and since the Swifts were big in that
11:44
type of a trade
11:45
they would bring their goods up and
11:47
bring them to Falmouth
11:49
the Sarah Herrick is a uh is a whale
11:52
ship that was
11:53
registered or said to be to be
11:57
brought into the Falmouth dock so that's
11:59
how we know that there were whaling
12:01
ships there as well
12:03
but after the commerce now ends up in
12:06
Woods Hole
12:09
the dock started to become more
#sarahherrick
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available to people and if it didn't
12:15
have the upkeep that it did
12:16
boats used to be able to sail right
12:18
inside of it uh
12:20
now that won't happen the Book of
#bookoffalmouth
From FPL: REF LocHist 974.492
BOO
12:22
Falmouth mentions a
12:25
a black who had a mail
12:28
route he would uh sail to the Old Stone
12:31
Dock
12:32
with mail for the new town is that
12:35
accurate
12:36
I can bet it is I I I don't know for
12:40
sure but yeah that
12:41
that would be the type of commerce that
12:43
you would find
12:44
coming out of the dock and the heavy
12:47
stuff would end up going down towards
12:48
Woods Hole
12:49
but that type of mail run or milk run
12:52
type of a
12:53
run over to the Vineyard and out to
12:56
Nantucket
#nantucket
12:57
and down to uh Cuttyhunk that would
#cuttyhunk
12:59
have been
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the the daily commerce going from the
13:03
Old Stone Dock
13:06
when things when the the railroad came
13:08
in then and went down there
13:10
they said that well they needed
13:12
someplace else for
13:14
a dock for for a harbor and that's when
13:17
the Inner Harbor was created
#falmouthharbor
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and that's why you'll still see
13:20
references on charts and
13:22
when people talk sometimes they'll talk
13:23
about the Inner Harbor
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well that would be sort of old-time talk
13:28
because most people now talk about the
13:29
harbor and they think of the Flying
#flyingbridge
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through 0383
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Bridge Restaurant and
13:32
the commerce that goes on but it was
13:34
never heavy commerce if you look at it
13:37
you say well this used to be the Old
13:40
Stone Dock used to handle
13:42
handle hogsheads of produce and
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fresh cut vegetables and so forth there
13:47
was never anything like that in
13:49
in Falmouth Harbor all that had gone to
13:51
Woods Hole
13:53
so Falmouth Harbor really became they
13:55
dredged out
13:56
if you take a look and you wonder why
13:58
why in the world Clinton Avenue is
14:01
so abruptly at the Clam Shack and then
14:03
resumes over in front of the Falmouth
14:05
Yacht Club
14:06
that was a road it had been cut off it
14:09
was it was a pond of its own it was
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Deacon's Pond
#clintonavenue
#deaconspond
Gunning_Village_Har_0190
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and when it was dredged out it created
14:14
an inner harbor
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and over the years that had been
14:17
improved and so forth
14:19
but that was in 1908 that the Inner
14:22
Harbor
14:23
opened up and for many years thereafter
14:26
people would sail their sailboats up to
14:29
up to the Old Stone Dock and they'd put
14:30
in there and many of uh
14:32
the Robert C. Hunt postcard collection
#1908
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#robertchunt #postcardcollection
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14:36
has great pictures of tourist day
14:39
sailors
14:40
you know boats that you and I would have
14:42
uh pulled up to the Old Stone Dock
14:44
and it's featured right there you'll see
14:47
some that have a uh some of the pictures
14:49
will have the old time
14:51
uh bath house still in that picture
14:54
and you look at it and you get a much
14:57
better picture
14:58
in looking at those old postcards
15:01
than you would ever get today when you
15:03
look at at the
15:04
Old Stone Dock but those postcards will
15:07
give you some idea of the depth and the
15:09
type of commerce that could pull up
15:11
some of those postcards still have the
15:14
pilings that were lining the the Old
15:17
Stone Dock and if you look real close at
15:19
some of them
15:20
you'll see wooden side buoys there where
15:23
you'd be pulling up
15:25
so nobody wants to pull a ship up beside
15:27
a granite block I mean that's not how
15:29
you
15:29
how you treat a boat but so
#bathhouse
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over time as I say it's become a
15:35
favorite now for
15:37
the uh for the kiddie pool
15:40
if you talk to kids in Falmouth today
15:42
they'll tell you that they learned how
15:43
to
15:44
how to swim in the Old Stone Dock and
15:47
most of them don't even know that it was
15:48
there
15:50
a neighbor of ours Jim Crossen started
#jamescrossen
15:53
the Old Stone Dock Association up in the
#oldstonedockassociation
15:55
1970s
15:56
and really brought a lot of history with
15:58
it and brought a lot of
16:00
attention to this relic it is
16:03
really it's a monument to to Falmouth to
16:06
have that here
16:07
and there's very few towns who can point
16:09
to something on the waterfront and say
16:10
that was there 200 years ago
16:12
so the Old Stone Dock Association has
16:14
really worked to preserve that heritage
16:16
and
16:17
that type of history the other place
16:19
where you'll find a reference
16:21
to it is is on the there's a big
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uh boulder with a
Hunt_Village_Sts_179
16:27
with a plaque on it and with an anchor
16:29
atop it right at the end of Mill Road
16:31
right where Mill Road turns on to Locust
16:34
and if you take a look at that you'll
16:35
see that that was a monument dedicated
16:37
to the seafarers
16:39
uh of in 1908 and it was really
16:44
the end of the Old Stone Dock that was
16:46
their farewell
16:47
uh to what had been such an active
16:49
center of commerce and the seafarers who
16:52
who made it such uh but in 1908
16:55
the the uh the harbor had been
16:59
dredged the Inner Harbor was now taking
17:01
over
17:02
and over time people started bringing
17:04
their boats into the Inner Harbor
17:06
and the Old Stone Dock became the Old
17:09
Stone Dock
17:12
and was there a window
17:15
a windmill and an attempt
17:19
to manufacture was it
17:23
a product glass no well yeah
17:26
a couple of things going on right down
17:28
there on the beach the windmill was up
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17:30
on Mill Road and if you were to drive go
17:32
up Mill Road from the beach uh
17:36
just as the road bends and it bends
17:38
right at the end of the salt pond
17:40
that's where the windmill was located
17:42
that windmill was actually
17:45
made to to grind uh corn
17:49
it wasn't it wasn't part of the glass
17:51
tree but i'll bring that up in a sec
17:54
that was that was that was a grinding
17:56
mill and I know that because Bill Swift
17:59
told me and if anybody knows anything
18:00
about the town of Falmouth it's Bill
18:02
Swift
18:03
and he used to live right down there so
18:05
that's where that's where the windmill
18:06
was
18:07
now there were many windmills along the
18:10
shoreline uh of
18:14
Surf Drive Beach the point of
18:17
them was to to bring in salt water they
18:20
would go out into the
18:21
into the Sound and suck up the water
18:23
bring it up and put into great big vats
18:26
typically about 10 feet by 10 feet and
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#williamswift
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18:28
it put water in it probably about 18
18:30
inches deep
18:32
and it would they would leave it out in
18:34
the sun
18:35
to evaporate and what you'd end up with
18:38
after
18:38
after all that water had been brought up
18:40
and left in these vats for
18:42
for some period of time it would
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the vats that dried the water
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and they would just they would try to
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anything that was perishable would be
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the glass company uh was because of the
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and they would use the furnaces to heat
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that sand up and get the silicone
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and yes that was that would have been
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located at the corner of Shore Street
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so it's right kind of where the parking
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lot is now
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where Shore Street comes down and Surf
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Drive goes across
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it was on that corner uh and that's
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where the Beach Breeze Inn is
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right now and that's sort of an area
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there was a bank down there there was a
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and there was this glass manufacturing
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and when you think about it of course
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with the uh it was a perfect place for a
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tavern and
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and the bank because these packet ships
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are coming back from their run
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and now they want to deposit the money
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or they need the money for some purpose
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and and having a tavern and a little
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when they get there
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the center of town as being right on the
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we we don't think of uh the center of
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out there no you wouldn't and and as you
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look
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there's actually the first two meeting
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houses if you take the time to
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to go along Surf Drive and then up Mill
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that boulder is that I talked about the
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head the plaque and the anchor
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there's a cemetery off to the one side
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in that cemetery of course the reason it
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when they used to bury their dead
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house
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houses the first two meeting houses that
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were built in Falmouth
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were built in that in that cemetery area
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the third meeting house is it has a
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stone marker
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as you turn onto Locust Street before
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you even get up to the green
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there's a marker on the side of the road
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that says this is the site of the third
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meeting house uh and it's not until you
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get to the green
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meeting house
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so yes it was it was the center of life
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the houses that are extinct is still on
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Elm Road there's the Hatch
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foundation I guess the house is
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questionable
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there's a sons houses across the street
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but there's a
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heavy granite foundation on the left
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side if you're going
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up from away from the water which was
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the foundation of the Hatch house and
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Hatch was one of the original
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proprietors
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of Falmouth I have heard that at the
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at that triangle with that rock and
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anchor
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underneath is a time capsule with
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the names of 100 more than 100 sea
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but what you say is interesting because
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I've never thought of that before as a
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putting a period to period two seafarers
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I think it was I think it was their
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goodbye uh
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and uh whether there's a time capsule
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under there
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or not I don't think we'll ever know and
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I don't think the
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DPW will let us dig it up anymore so
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uh I don't know I don't know I've heard
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the same thing whether it be under that
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boulder or
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in front of the boulder we've certainly
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done lots of plantings around the
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boulder
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no evidence of it has ever come up so
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perhaps it's there I don't know
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Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: July 27, 2021
Presenter: Christopher Setterlund
Host: Sue Henken
Topic: Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs, and Drinks, and Iconic Hotels and Motels of
Cape Cod by Christopher Setterlund
Also mentioned: Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund
All books available from CLAMS under CAPE COD 647.95 SET
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hello everyone I hope that a lot of you
were
here last week and you came back to see
part two
of my pair of events with the Falmouth
library so I wanted to start off so you
can see me but we're gonna dive right
into
the actual PowerPoint presentation
it's gonna be nightlife and hotels
Falmouth in the area around that so
let's go right into it I’m going to
open up my presentation
and we will start from there so
this presentation is going to combine my
fifth and sixth books Cape Cod Nights
and Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod
and so what we're doing
is basically for those of you that
weren't
here last week I am a 12th generation
Cape Codder
through the Doane family that helped to
settle Eastham
and I included this photo here this is
the
monument to my ninth great grandfather
Deacon John Doane
who helped to settle the town of Eastham
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in 1644.
this is in the Cove Burying Ground in
Eastham on Route 6
if anyone's ever gone past there
and like Sue said I am author of
six books all dealing with Cape Cod and
the Islands
the first three were all titled In My
Footsteps I’ve kind of used that
title for a lot of projects
three books um a blog that I have
and a podcast so
after that I jumped into a second
trilogy
that included historic restaurants
historic nightlife
and bars and hotels and motels
so this trilogy essentially
tells you in history where Cape Codders
went to eat
where they went to drink and where they
went to then sleep off the damage they
did to themselves
from those previous two things and that
was actually how I pitched it to my
publisher
when I was pitching book six the hotels
and motels I said this
is a can't miss marketing opportunity
eating drinking sleeping
it's all part of life
so Cape Cod became a vacation
destination
in the years after the book Cape Cod was
released by Henry David Thoreau in 1865.
Thoreau’s connection to Cape Cod he did
four walking tours basically in the
years
leading up to the book's release and he
is actually
semi-responsible for one of the
original Cape Cod hospitality spots
the Highland House in Truro basically
during all four of his
walks on the Cape he stayed
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with his friends the small family
in Truro they had the property that was
surrounding Highland Lighthouse
including the golf course that's there
and some of the cottages that are around
there
during one of his trips walking up there
he and the I think it was James Small
they talked about this farmhouse that he
had there that was basically
empty and they both kind of talked about
how it could make
a good boarding house basically that's
how it started
the Highland House is now a museum but
when it first started it
was a popular hotel and eventually hotel
and restaurant for about a hundred years
so bringing it back around to Falmouth
in the late 19th century that's when
Cape Cod
really started to cement itself as the
summer destination
and a lot of summer resorts popped up
this included the Terrace Gables which
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so the Terrace Gables was originally
known as the Draper Cottage for a man
named Charles Draper
and it was a high-class resort in
1902 it was expanded after it was
renamed the Terrace Gables
the people that owned it they also
bought the nearby
Menauhant Hotel which they actually used
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for overflow from the Terrace Gables it
got so big
that they bought their competitor to use
as overflow for their hotel which was
just fascinating
that was in 1912. at its peak it had 125
rooms but as you'll see as we go along
in this
during the 40s and 50s it was changing
times on Cape Cod
what ended up happening was in 1960
they tried to change with the times and
they created this
restaurant cocktail lounge called the
Club 46
which it didn't really make much of a
difference
the times changing with the highway
the Terrace Gables kind of went the way
of a lot of hotels from that time
and it became the Brothers Four
nightclub which was Cape Cod's largest
entertainment complex you'll see that
again
later but that was in 1971
and now it's condos a lot of these
places
I found that they had one of two ends
they either
burned down or they were turned into
condos a lot
of them in doing the especially the
hotels and motels book
the Hotel Attaquin on the right was on
Route 130 in Mashpee
that was opened by a Wampanoag Native
American named
Solomon Attaquin he opened it in 1840
and it was a smaller bed and breakfast
type of hotel with 17
rooms but it also there were amenities
surrounding it that made it a really fun
place to visit including going
fishing at the nearby Mashpee and Wakeby
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and Solomon Attaquin became a big deal
in Mashpee in addition to his hotel
he was a selectman he was a town
treasurer
he was the first postmaster of Mashpee
when it was incorporated as a town
after he died in 1895 the hotel
continued on
for another 60 years
although they got into trouble in 1928
they were raided
during Prohibition for illegal
gambling and alcohol
they got more fame during the
early days of radio when they had
the Hotel Attaquin orchestra which would
be featured on
Station WOCB they would actually be part
of
some variety shows locally
the end came like I like I said it's
either condos or
a fire and in 1955 Christmas eve
there was a fire at the Hotel Attaquin
that
ended its reign as a hotel it's now
the site of the Mashpee Community
Gardens
on Route 130 so if you go by there
that's basically where it used to stand
and the rise of these resort hotels the
first the originals it continued into
the early part of the 20th century
on the left the Cape Codder not to be
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it opened in 1900 originally known as
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the land that it was on overlooking the
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was originally a sheep farm
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before it became the Cape Codder after
it was the Sippewissett hotel it was then
the Mayflower Hotel
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before finally becoming the Cape Codder
in 1931.
it was a four-story resort hotel
and by the late 40s it was the largest
hotel under one roof meaning that there
were no cottages there were some
hotels on the Cape that had
a main building but then also cottages
and such that were
seen as part of it an example of that is
The Pines in Cotuit
which was a huge complex with a main
hotel
and the people that owned it would buy
nearby cottages and mansions and made it
all
part of The Pines but the Cape Codder was
the largest under one roof
and at one point their kitchen
could seat 1500 people a night they
could serve
and it was owned later on by the
Peterson family
all the way up until 1988
when it was knocked down to make way for
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on the right the Coonamessett Inn which is
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still going strong now
but it's in a second location so
Coonamessett first opened in 1927
it was named for the pond by which it
stood
and it was the original Coonamessett was
based in the William
Chadwick farmhouse which was built in
1826
it became a really
well-known hotel and restaurant
especially after a woman named Edna
Harris
took it over in 1930
so the Coonamessett was owned by
uh William Chase the man that also owned
Great Island
in Yarmouth the Chase family still owns
most of it
but Edna Harris leased it she had
already become well known by running the
Megansett Tea Room
in North Falmouth and those of you that
saw my
presentation last week I had a picture
of the Megansett Tea Room
because I couldn't find an actual
picture of
the Hangar Tea Room
Edna Harris made this the place to be
and interestingly in 1953
after more than two decades of this
they had politicians there they had
military officials there
had all these the Falmouth Playhouse was
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and Edna Harris was very well known and
well regarded
and interestingly in 1953 she was told
that her lease on the property was not
going to be renewed
and this is where her story she became a
legend in my eyes when I was researching
this
because she had already done the Megansett
Tea Room
and she made the Coonamessett Inn the
place
to be
she actually also leased the Popponeset
Inn
and had her daughter Hilda Coppage run
it
so she had her fingers in a lot of pies
as far as Cape Cod
hospitality but what she did with the
Coonamessett was legendary
so the Coonamessett was going to become
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in the 1950s what she did though
was Edna Harris owned the liquor license
so she bought property on Gifford Street
311 Gifford Street which was
a home originally owned by a man named
Robert Longier
and she bought that house had it
converted and got uh
the license to run it as an inn she took
her liquor license
with her and then because the old
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property
was going to be a Treadway Inn she took
the Coonamessett name
with her and the furniture
so she basically took the Coonamessett
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reopened it
at the spot that it's located at now
and it's just fascinating I’m actually
working on
an article about Edna Harris in just her
life because
it's incredible to think the stuff that
she did in the early part of the 20th
century
but like I said in the early 20th
century
the automobile made travel easier now
that was a blessing and a curse because
people that were coming down to the cape
by a train
or I mean I guess some could come down
by horse and buggy but mostly train
they would stay in one place for many
weeks
long stays at the same place automobiles
made it where
people didn't have to stay in one place
for too long
so the stays became shorter and it put a
lot of pressure on
these hotels and resorts to capture
the imaginations and the attention of
these tourists because that's how they
made their money
and another thing that came up during
this early part of the 20th century was
Prohibition
and with the advent of the automobile it
was possible to drive to
nearby dancing and entertainment
complexes
and both of these were nearby in
Buzzards Bay
and ironically they were on the same
street so you could have gone to both
so the Bournehurst on the Canal
was at 320 Main Street right in the
shadow of the Bourne Bridge
interestingly its whole run
was basically during Prohibition it
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opened in 1920
and it was seen as as a large
entertainment complex because when you
can't serve alcohol you've got to have
some other ways to entertain people
so opening night at the Bournehurst was
July 10th of 1920 and there was more
than
2100 people there for that event
they had basketball games they had
boxing matches
they actually in 1922 they opened a
lunchroom
inside run by a man named Fred Lutz
it was well known for its clam cakes
it was also a spot in the late 20s where
young up-and-coming jazz musicians like
Duke Ellington and Cab
Calloway played at the Bournehurst
the biggest event
I suppose at the Bournehurst was July 26
1930 when Rudy Vallée and his orchestra
came and played there the Bournehurst
inside was packed
outside there were hundreds and hundreds
of people
waiting just to get a glimpse of Rudy
Vallée
State Police had to be called to try to
subdue the crowd which eventually they
did but that was
one of the last hurrahs for the
Bournehurst
October 18th 1933 a fire broke out
with eyewitnesses said it was the
hottest fire they'd ever seen
and unfortunately that it didn't end the
Bournehurst
but then there was another fire 10
months later
and that was really what did it so
in the summer of 1934 the burn
Bournehurst
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then when Prohibition was repealed and
the new Bourne Bridge
was built so it's unbelievable to think
about
if it had only stuck around a few more
years what it could have done and could
have been
on the right the Blue Moon Dancing
Pavilion
was at 230 Main Street in Buzzards Bay
this opened in 1931 it was also a tea
room
it was mainly outside so
they had a blue neon sign
their dancing stage where you can see
all the people out here
had blue lights half-moon shaped stage
it was perfect for summer funny thing
was that they had midnight frolic
dances which would start at midnight
I’m sorry to 12:01 a.m on Mondays once
Prohibition was lifted
because liquor sales were not permitted
on Sundays
so literally the minute that it was
Monday
they opened up and had people out there
dancing and drinking
it was mainly seen as an outdoor dancing
pavilion
or some people also called it a summer
dance garden
it was owned originally by a man named
George Blakeslee
he owned it for the first decade it
changed hands a few times
before finally being bought by a man
named Alex
Byron in 1957
what happened there was that it became
part of the larger Buzzards Bay Summer
Theatre complex which was theater in the
round
essentially the same as what the Cape
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is with a stage in the middle and seats
all around it
so it stayed open I guess
through the mid-1960s before the Blue
Moon itself was closed
the property itself stayed
being used by Alex Byron it became part
of the Byron's Landing restaurant
until 1986. it's now a veterinarian's
office
so the building is still there the
outdoor dance pavilion is not
though
and then after Prohibition nightlife
boomed
and so the casino which someone last
week had brought up
I said you know what better way to read
from the book
the actual story of the casino
so in the 21st century the area known as
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Falmouth Heights
has become a very popular summer
destination
but in 1870 the beachfront neighborhood
was born from what was then known as
Great Hill
it was at that time that George Davis
sold the property
to the Falmouth Land and Wharf Company
which retained its rights
before it ultimately fell into the hands
of its president G.
Edward Smith over the first 50 years of
the Heights’ existence
land values increased more than 600
percent
around the turn of the 20th century a
Falmouth icon would be born
adding serious clout to the village of
the Heights
in 1901 the Casino at Falmouth Heights
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opened on Grand Avenue
nearly opposite the Terrace Gables hotel
the building 80 feet long by 32 feet
wide
with 184 feet of piazza
was run by Charles L. Hopson the building
was enlarged several times
eventually containing the Cottage Club
Falmouth Heights Post Office
a barbershop and general store
the casino was completely destroyed by
fire in
April 1909 with Hopson immediately
getting to work
starting on the rebuild the barber shop
was the first to reopen just over two
months later
the building was enlarged again in 1914
and became known as the Cottage Club
rather than the club simply being a part
of it
in January 1915 Charles Hopson died
and his waterfront property would be
owned by his wife
in 1937 a year after her death
Hopson's son Harry purchased the casino
it was here that the biggest changes
would begin
on July 19 1939 after extensive
remodeling
the Casino Bar at Falmouth Heights was
added to the property with
soon soon-to-be local legend Joe Miron
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the bartender served up the drinks his
customers desired
and then followed that by sketching
their likeness while they drank it
beyond caricatures had skill with
the brush when it came to landscapes and
watercolors
by his third season at the Casino Bar
his works were being showcased at local
art shows and galleries on the cape
he rightfully earned the nickname
Painting Bartender
in an attempt not to focus strictly on
the alcohol output
the kitchen was revamped in 1940 the
establishment was open until
1am and the bar could seat 150
so it was natural to try to incorporate
food to go with the drink
Hopson also tried to maintain the
entertainment complex
feel by adding an E.M. Loew motion picture
theater in 1941.
after trouble with erosion from
hurricanes in 1938 and 1944
Hopson sold the casino bar to Worcester
Massachusetts resident William McCann in
1945.
from there the bar's popularity
skyrocketed
along with that of Captain Joe McCann
focused on creating a positive work
environment
including putting as first priority
feeding the kitchen staff McCann also
supra
supplied room and board to his employees
if it was needed
Joe Miron created a spot in the bar
called Amen Corner
it was named for the those patrons who
drank their
fill and sat in the corner to
philosophize
it was here that hung some of his
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#1940
#1938 #1944
#williammccann
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favorite caricature sketches
the notoriety only grew when Miron was
featured in
the October 1943 issue of Click magazine
there he was referred to as Boston’s
bartender artist
the popularity of the Casino Bar led to
the need
for a staff of 27 people per shift
including
four bartenders the fun spot of the
Heights
added horseshoes in 1946 a new sun deck
in 1947
and another name change occurred in 1949
when the establishment became known as
the Casino by the Sea
the seasonal spots popularity continued
to grow
with 1940 1951 being reported
as its most successful year yet
throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s
Joe Miron continued to thrill guests
with his skill
as both a mixologist and his artistic
gifts
summer afternoons routinely saw Captain
Joe
proudly shout down to the casino's
private beach via megaphone
during cocktail hour cocktail spree
Cape Cod fishballs many guests heard it
as cocktails free
and they came running they were
disappointed
things changed again in 1966 when
William Sweeney Jr.
purchased the property and gave it more
of a nightclub feel
making it extremely attractive to
college students and young adults
during the summers of the late 1960s and
70s
the Casino by the Sea experienced
another swell of popularity
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#1949
#casinobythesea
#1966
#williamsweeneyjr
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during the golden age of Cape Cod
nightlife
however after spending nearly the
entirety
of the 20th century entertaining folks
at the Heights
time came for last call in 2000
the fading legend was purchased by
developer Frank Messina
the casino property was torn down in
November 2003
to make way for the upscale Casino Wharf
FX for those wondering what it
might have been to have a drink with
Captain Joe Miron pouring
it's possible to replicate it with a
popular drink from the 1940s called the
sidecar
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for those of you that have never read my
book
Cape Cod nights I put drink recipes
at the end of the chapter for each spot
in there
and I pick the decade that I see as when
it was
most popular and so the 1940s I picked
for the Casino
but after Prohibition
and with the rise in popularity of
nightclubs and bars there was a need for
more hotels and resorts
this included the Red Horse Inn which
for those of you who were here last week
you'll remember that the Red Horse Inn
started as The Bellows
#2000
#frankmessina
#2003
#casinowharffx
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and it was a tea room slash lunch and
dinner spot
owned by a woman named Thekla Hedlund
opened in 1933 on Falmouth Heights Road
after Hedlund died in 1946 it was run
as a restaurant for two more years
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the name was changed to the Red Horse
Grill and then to the Red Horse
Inn and it's been standing ever since
Popponesset Inn as I mentioned earlier with
Edna Harris
it's at 252 Shore Drive in Mashpee
right in the middle of New Seabury
in 1941 it opened as
an actual resort it was originally owned
by
Malcolm Chase of Great Island who bought
the property in 1929
interestingly before it became the
luxury resort
it was leased out by a nurse named Norma
Armstrong
and she ran it as um
a campsite where basically
people that were going there they had
the money to rent rooms at these
high-class resorts but they actually
preferred
staying in this trailer park slash
campground
that was affectionately known as tent
city
and it was 4 000 acres
then in 1941 when it became the
Popponesset
Inn then it took off where
it started with 10 rooms then quickly
added 15
more as I said Edna Harris took it over
in 1947
and put her daughter Hilda Coppage in
charge
once New Seabury was built and finished
in 1964
then it became a popular wedding
destination
and it was actually owned by the Chase
family until
1998. it's
known for its spectacular views fine
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#shoredrive
#newseabury
#malcolmchase
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and relatively isolated location
especially back in the 40s and 50s when
it first got started
and as I said soon it was the golden age
of Cape Cod nightlife
and there you see the Brothers Four
which was previously the Terrace Gables
so the Brothers Four opened in 1971.
it was three clubs under one roof known
as Cape Cod's largest entertainment
complex
it was so big that it had sister clubs
in Somerville and Nashua New Hampshire
the Brothers Four they were the Robbat
brothers
George Russell Stephen and Allen
Brothers Four is also well known for
being the
finish line of the Falmouth Road Race
where
Falmouth Road Race creator Tommy
Leonard
created it when he ran from the Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole to
the Brothers Four which is why it has
such a unique
mile distance the Falmouth Road Race
because it was a run from
one bar to another
the problem with the Brothers Four was
the zoning
where being this huge nightclub it ran
into a lot of problems with the
locals that lived around there for
noise and drunken disorderly behavior
things like beat the clock happy hour
didn't help
and so basically from the late 1970s
up until it's ending in 1987
it was a constant battle between the
Robbat brothers
and the town of Falmouth to keep the
place going
they even created the Yesterdays
Bar inside there they were trying to
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make it
more upscale but Brothers Four was known
as
a really wild hangout
in 1987 it was torn down and like I said
with the Terrace Gables it is now
condos
but it was also the golden age of
hospitality
I had mentioned the Coonamessett Inn that
moved to
Gifford Street it is still well known
and highly regarded
for its food and its lodging
the Sea Crest is at 350 Quaker Road
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this one has a fascinating story also
where
the Sea Crest Hotel got its start as the
University Players’
summer theater and that was in 1928 it
opened and some
Hollywood heavyweights got their start
at this theater including Jimmy Stewart
and Henry Fonda
it was chained the name was changed to
the Beach Theater
and in 1936 there was a fire
naturally because fire and condos are a
running theme with these
places when it was reopened in 1937
it was named Neptune’s Tryst then it was
the Old Silver Beach Club then it was
the Latin
Quarter which was run by a man named
Lou
Walters
whose daughter Barbara Walters is pretty
well known
1948 it was finally renamed the Sea Crest
after being heavily renovated
and by that point there was 250 guests
could be accommodated with the
dining room holding 350 seats
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it got more of a shot in the arm with a
famous owner when Red Auerbach of the
Boston Celtics bought
a share in it in 1963
and currently it's 264 rooms
but whether you went out to drink at a
place like Smith's Olde Surrey Room
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which Smith's Olde Surrey Room got its
start as the Falmouth Bowling Alley
which was opened in 1939 by a man named
Lester Crane
in July 1946 the Surrey Room was
opened by Lester crane he saw more
value in an eating and drinking
establishment
over a bowling alley and the lead up to
the debut of the Surrey Room on July 1st
1946
and the Falmouth Enterprise there were
these ads that were just
question marks basically the mystery of
what
what was coming and it ended up being an
unusual nightclub
you'd walk in there and there were
actual surreys which were forms of
carriages
that were located in three corners of
the property
inside there was bright red trim
and yellow window recesses but they
stuck a little bit of
a throwback to how they started by
having
the bowling club lounge
in 1950 the property was sold to a man
named Daniel
Smith and that's where it got the name
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room
and there was another connection where
smith's chef was a man named Daniel
Bartolomei
he would go on to create Danny-Kay’s
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which I mentioned last week in the event
there were two big extensions to the
club they had to make it bigger and
bigger because of how popular it was
and their biggest shot in the arm came
when
they were mentioned in the Duncan Hines
Adventures in Good
Eating magazine in 1961
however now it is affordable apartments
at 704
Main Street
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but you could have gone to drink or
sleep off a great night
and that's the Gray Gables Inn which was
at
217 Presidents Road this was known as
the first
summer White House and it was
a home built for Grover Cleveland
and he lived there
and um until his basically
Grover Cleveland would come and stay at
the summer White House
and Joseph Jefferson who was a famous
actor of the very early motion picture
days of the
late 1890s he actually played Rip van
Winkle
in the 1896 version of the film
so he would come down he would fish
offshore that's why
Cleveland Ledge Lighthouse is named for
him and Grey Gables was
the name basically of the railroad
station where he would come in by his
train
it eventually became the name of the
whole village there
but once rumors got to be
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creating a Cape Cod Canal
Cleveland decided he really didn't want
to
be there while all this construction was
going on
so he stopped coming in 1908
and after his death his son sold it in
1920
basically the entire property because
they owned more than just
the actual house the whole property was
subdivided
and by 1926 there were 50 houses there
but they kept the actual Grey Gables
home
intact and it became a summer resort
owned by a man named John Stackpole
they had dining they had a cocktail
lounge it had a real nice
community feel and they even kept some
Grover Cleveland artifacts in there
including his desk that he used to write
at
and when Grover Cleveland’s grandson
came and visited he got a tour and he
was
very happy with how the owners had kept
it
close to what his grandfather would have
wanted
in 1961 a woman named Peggy Alden
took over and she was known for having
children come down for outings there
where they could come and stay
and do the fishing and things like that
to get in touch with nature
unfortunately December 10 1973 there was
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property
and they actually built an exact replica
of the Gray Gables in but it's a private
home
I have been told that they
expect people basically to come and take
photos of it so they don't
mind if you you know don't go on the
property but if you get to
the edge of their driveway you can take
photos I have not
gone and tried that yet but that's what
I’ve been told that they're very
warm and welcoming to people that are
at least respectful of the property
but all these icons deserve to be a part
of
Falmouth's rich history whether it was
the Casino
or the Cape Codder Hotel
and naturally I end it like I did last
week with
a nice throwback image of Main Street
and Falmouth
and thank you all for coming back
for the second presentation and
are there any questions and I will stop
sharing my screen
okay that was great we do have a couple
questions in the chat
so far you want to take a look
can you see those Chris or want me to
read them
let's see can you hear me
I can okay so there's one about where
were any of the hotels and venues
integrated
if so what years and then also how did
World War I and World War II
impact any of these venues and did Otis
impact any of these venues
well interestingly I’m not sure about
integrated I don't know anything about
that specifically
but I will tell you that world war
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so she got this huge influx of
military officers it kind of grew the
popularity of
the Coonamessett which made it all the
more
weird that the Crane family would then
decline her
lease in 1953
and then also surprisingly the
breakout of World War Two actually
spurred on the creation of the Popponesset
Inn
because what ended up happening was
Norma Armstrong
the nurse she was running the property
as the
kind of tourist summer camp and then
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down before New Seabury and before all
that it was really isolated
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but then really didn't have a need for
them to be out there training
when World War II happened so then the
property was
not abandoned but they were looking for
something to do with it and
it's like all right why not use it for a
hotel
so those are two I could think of yeah
and if anyone has any questions or just
wants to share any stories you can you
can unmute yourself
also and just raise your hand you know
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put your video on
so I have a question um can you tell me
a little bit more about how you've done
some of the research for these
books for these sure
so the nightlife one was actually a lot
of fun because
basically I asked my especially my
parents I said where did you used to go
when you were younger to go out drinking
and partying
and so that's how I got a lot of the
initial ones
then it was a matter of researching
the research is a lot of fun you kind of
find
broad terms nightclub bar and you look
up what places appear a lot
and a lot of them you growing up on Cape
Cod I could pick out a lot especially
from the 80s on
but then the real fun came with
putting out posts on social media and
getting folks that
may have remembered what it was like in
the 50s
and picking out places and you get a lot
of
varying opinions on who who like what
places
places like Brothers Four and Casino those
were easy
I had so many people in there's a
history group on Facebook for Falmouth
and I
I put a blast in there and I said where
did you like to go
to drink and party and Brothers Four
came up
so much it was Brothers Four and
Yesterdays and I didn't realize they
were the same
under the same roof I thought it was a
different place
yeah yeah those are pretty active groups
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definitely so
do you go into all these different
groups all over the Cape
or yes so
after social media I would then reach
out to
historical societies the Bourne
Historical Society was very helpful with
the Blue Moon Dancing Pavilion and the
Bournehurst
and even places that I didn't end up
using for the book like
Quintals they would send me photos
Falmouth I think Falmouth Library sent
me a bunch of
postcards of and it was essentially
just like these places might be ones
you'd be interested in and I would look
at the postcards and then I would start
researching from there and that's where
a place like
Smith's Olde Surrey Room came from I
didn't know it at all
and I saw a postcard of and I said that
looks interesting a big
carriage inside the bar so it was
so much of this was other people helping
me because my knowledge
of restaurants hotels and nightclubs is
very limited you're talking 1980s to now
and mainly Mid-Cape because that's where
I grew up
so I had to rely on a lot of people to
help
me put this together these three books
yeah so what made you decide you wanted
to write a book like this
about restaurants so the restaurants
one was actually pitched to me
so I have a friend of mine Bill DeSousaMauk
see this is what I like is I like when
other people share
what they know because my knowledge is
based on my research and
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very few when it came to the nightclubs
very few people had coherent memories of
them
basically what I would get was oh yeah
it was fun but I don't remember much
because I was drunk so like all right
well
I can say everyone had a good time but
that's about it
but the restaurants book was pitched to
me
by Arcadia Publishing and they actually
wanted
historic restaurants of Martha's
Vineyard and I told them I said I
couldn't even name you
five current restaurants let alone 40
that used to exist
so they came back to me and said we see
you've got a deep connection to Cape Cod
would you like to do that book I said
all right now you're talking
and it kind of went from there because
restaurants
naturally evolved into nightclubs and
bars
and then I pitched the hotels and motels
to go from there yeah
oh someone someone just typed something
in the chat too
Packet Landing in now where is Packet
Landing
in Orleans I don't know
I don't know if anyone who's there if
you went to
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room or I mean the
Coonamessett is still around and the Cape
Codder
see the hotels I think there'd be less
people in the chat that would have
stayed there because you're all
basically from here so why would you go
and stay at the Sea Crest
that's where the the bars and nightclubs
really come into play but even then it's
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places like the Bournehurst and the Blue
Moon that's
way back we're talking the 20s and 30s
so
that's kind of difficult yeah
Brothers Four in the Casino I would
think
you get some folks that would remember
that
yeah and by the way I want to recommend
these books because I I have looked at a
lot of these books they're great books
so
I encourage people to buy them or get
them out of the library and I’m not just
saying that because he's here
and the Casino part that you heard I
actually read
from the book I read it word for word
which
because someone last week had brought up
the casino and I had mentioned that I
would be talking about it this week and
I decided
we were talking this is behind the
scenes that
these events people that come to them
like to hear the authors read from their
books so I
picked a chapter that I thought would
fit and the Casino has got a
a great history Captain Joe Miron the
the painting bartender I did an article
about
his actual life so I do a deeper dive
and that I think is on capecod.com I did
a lot of writing for them
for several years and I stopped writing
for them a few years ago because I
I got to the point where i wanted to
write about
things I wanted to write about and so
you'd have to pitch ideas to the editor
and sometimes they wouldn't be on board
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so an article like Edna Harris who
ran the Coonamessett that would be one
where they might not be interested in it
but now I don't have to worry
it's a part of the In My Footsteps
Podcast Blog
that goes along with the podcast
yeah do you have any do you have any
other books about Cape Cod or the
Islands that you're
that you have in the works sir well
so I’m starting work on
a photography book now
the thing with that is I’m waiting for
contracts I guess you would say it's
basically been approved
and so it's going to be
Photographers’ America is the name of the
series that started
and the Arcadia Publishing they came to
me with three different
titles and they said you want to do
these and I said well I can't do all
three
I’ll pick one and so
I picked the photography one and I’m
waiting to get
official confirmation I’ve already
started taking photos it's going to be
beyond just the norm like I’ll have a
lot of places that are well known
but there's going to be some street
scenes I’ve got pictures I took in
Provincetown at the
Lobster Pot of people in line and
things to give people a feel of what the
heart and soul of Cape Cod is all about
beyond just what everyone goes to as a
tourist
so that's one I’ve got another one that
I’m
working on but it's more
tight-lipped I want to say it's
something
big and exciting but I don't have an
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I’ll just say it's
true crime and it's working hand in hand
with a documentary film that's coming
out
so that's one where I’m really excited
about but I have to keep it kind of
hush just in case I don't ever like to
share things and then have it fall apart
yeah I know that you happen to take some
gorgeous scenery photos
of the Cape you know that oh thank you I
I post a lot on Instagram I
I believe I just passed my 10 year
anniversary on
Instagram and I have somewhere in the
neighborhood of
4 500 photos on there which I figured
out comes out to
basically 1.3 photos per day for 10
years
so I like Instagram yeah
so that's on the photography oh and
someone just said something the Casino
had a life-size
papier-mâché statue of Captain Joe that
was part of the flagpole
wow oh I would have loved to have seen
that
yeah yeah Captain Joe I’ve seen photos
of him
but he seemed like just a fascinating
guy
so I had to do a whole article about him
yeah if anyone does have any memories of
those places that they can remember yes
that's the big
catches do you actually remember going
to these places
yeah yeah the restaurants probably more
so
which was last week yes it was
interesting
when doing the research for the three
books
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I had a lot of help with the restaurants
a lot of help with the hotels not as
much
with the nightlife because people didn't
remember
but I got a lot of names of places that
was about it no stories though
I think people are also fond of
restaurants because they grow you know
it's part of their childhood or their
summers they remember
going to these things absolutely
it's more family fun rather than
nightlife where it seems like you get in
a lot of trouble
yeah yeah and definitely yeah take
take a look at our postcard collection
on our website too because there are a
lot of
great historical postcards if you
haven't seen them if you go to
falmouthpubliclibrary.org we do have a
digital
page where they have a lot of these
great postcards that Chris has probably
seen
yes I highly recommend it that's I
always joke that
when it comes to obscure Cape Cod
history I always think it's
this might only interest me but I’ll
share
things that I find and that's why things
like the postcard collection I love it
no there's a lot of interest in in Cape
Cod history because I yeah of course I
work in the Reference Department we get
a lot of questions
a lot of those questions
yeah there's random things that I’ll
find interesting I was out for a run on
the
bike path down in Harwich last week and
there's a building
called Depot Storage and it's just a
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storage building
and I’d run by that hundreds of times
this time I went by there
and they had I guess removed shingles
and it revealed this old mural that was
I guess it used to be an
Ocean Spray cranberry warehouse
so now there's a painting of Ocean Spray
cranberries from the 20s
what was that that I did
oh someone said the Falmouth Enterprise
more is an interest is an amazing source
of photos and articles I’m not sure what
you mean by more do you know that
there is a ton of stuff in there though
well the Enterprise
I was just on the website this morning
doing my research for Edna Harris
oh and I I go down the rabbit holes
where I’ll find something else and I’ll
say okay
put a pin in that I’ll go look at that
later
that's the I find that interesting the
old newspaper archives I think are
fascinating
yeah they are and yet we do have the
Enterprise I don't remember the exact
date off the top of my head but we have
the Enterprise microfilm pretty far back
pretty far back yeah it's interesting to
even go
and just you start by researching
something you're interested in and then
you never know where it goes
oh and Kim just Kim just did a link to
the Joe Miron postcard
in our Digital Commonwealth that you
guys can
you can click on now or you can look
later
he's a very interesting character I wish
I could have met him
Kim is our cataloger by the way she
works here as well can do well
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so she knows and she puts together much
of this all of it
so I encourage you guys to check out
Chris’s site chrissetterlund.com
because
you know this there's even more on that
site
oh [unintelligible] oh okay I’m okay
good to know yeah I was like I didn't
think I didn't think that was a mistake
but
more see that's I should know that
but I guess I didn't and by the way we
do have the Enterprise digitized but
only unfortunately up to 1962 so
if you want stuff from 62 to the present
you do have to go to the microfilm
sadly we hope to have it digitized all
the way up at some point so you don't
have to go through the mic oh I would
love that
see I didn't want to bother you about
that cause I was gonna say it only goes
up to like 62.
and by the way yeah we we will search
the microfilm the microfilm
you know for people within reason if
they have a date and a specific thing
if they come to us and say I think it
was 82 maybe it was 83
and that's a little harder but if
someone has a specific request
you know with some kind of pinpoint of
the day we can we're happy to look if
you can't get in here
and Kim said that he painted the mural
at Captain
Kidd in Woods Hole which is pretty cool
that would make sense
I’ve actually never been in the Captain
Kidd so
that might be a destination yeah Chris
lives Chris lives in Yarmouth by the way
so Falmouth isn't his regular
spot but he did a lot of digging to find
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out
you know specific found the things
because his books are about Cape Cod but
he looked
he's you know he did go beyond and find
some Falmouth information that isn't
even in his books for these talks
yes I wanted to make sure that it was
relevant to you who came
to actually check out this event
so that it wasn't just like oh there's
all these places in
Eastham and Provincetown and it's like
you may not have ever heard of them I’d
rather it be at least
relevant to the town you're in yeah that
was great
that was great all right and
just a reminder to everyone that we are
recording this and FCTV is recording it
they're going to edit it for us and
make it look nice and then I’m going to
post it on our social media and
what I try to do is I’ll try to email
you guys all the link to it it'll be a
YouTube it'll be up on YouTube and I’ll
give people the link because I know
sometimes people
you know didn't hear it well or they got
in late or something they want to hear
the whole thing
yeah that I’ll definitely share it all
around too
absolutely yeah it'll go light on our
promotion
yeah it'll go on our Falmouth YouTube
page and our Falmouth Library YouTube
page
and does anyone have any questions
before
we let Chris go
yeah if you think of any shoot me an
email and I can shoot him an email too I
think
he has his email on his website too oh
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yeah definitely I’m always
I get people that contact me about
places to stay I had someone
who listens to my podcast asking me
where he should bring his wife for their
anniversary they're not from here
so I was pitching in places to go I
don't know where he stayed but
I kind of ran the gamut from resorts
like Wequassett
down to little bed and breakfasts oh wow
well the Captain David Kelley you might
remember Sue
um oh I’m trying to think of the name of
the man he's he
would do spinning at Mid-Cape
and he he and his husband they own that
and so I always promote him so that's
where I’m hoping they win
oh wow David Kelley House in Centerville
he had his scones
oh he's I’ll have to ask Kailyn she
knows his name
wow yeah so if anyone needs a place to
stay in Centerville
yes who knows anyone who does okay
well I want to thank everyone for coming
and yeah
we're really glad that you came and we
want to thank Chris for coming too that
was a great presentation
thank you so much to everyone who came
out and took some time out to
listen to me talk about these books that
I took a lot of
pride in creating yeah no it was
wonderful
and have a good night everyone we will
see some of you guys
at the next event and we have a thank
you here well thank you so much
I really appreciate it
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Zoom Program Transcript
Recorded: July 20, 2021
Presenter: Christopher Setterlund
Host: Sue Henken
Topic: Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund
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Available from CLAMS under CAPE COD 647.95 SET
• Also mentioned:
o Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs, and Drinks, by Christopher Setterlund,
available at Falmouth Public Library under 647.95 SET
o Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape Cod, by Christopher Setterlund, available at
Falmouth Public Library under 647.95 SET
o Cape Cod Wampanoag Cookbook, by Earl Mills & Betty Breen, available from
CLAMS under 641.59 MIL
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
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and without further ado I wanted to
welcome Chris we're glad to have you
here
thank you so much I’m so glad to be here
and
yes like Sue said this is geared more
towards
Falmouth so it'll be
a lot of the places that are in my
restaurant's book are
here but in order to make this worth
your while for actually being
part of this Zoom presentation I added
some places that are not in the book
so what I’m going to do is I’m going to
pull my presentation
up so that you can see it
because it's more exciting to see the
actual presentation
and so I wrote this book
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Historic Restaurants of Cape Cod
this was in 2017.
and for those who don't know me I am a
12th generation Cape Codder
and I’ve written a total of six books my
most recent one is in the bottom right
corner that's Iconic Hotels and Motels
of Cape Cod
that one along with Cape Cod Nights
will be
featured next week and that one will
also be
a presentation that is Falmouth centric
so it'll be a lot of fun this one was a
lot of fun to put together too
because I wanted to I had to do more
research and find
places that you will hopefully remember
and if you don't then
I can bring them back to life for you
so in June of 2015 that's when I started
chronicling
the legendary Cape Cod restaurants it
was part of
Arcadia Publishing's History Press label
and the end result was Historic
Restaurants of Cape Cod so the book
itself
is 39 restaurants
all of them are since closed
but there's a 40th chapter that includes
recipes from many of the restaurants
that are
in the book and I was lucky because I’ve
done a lot of work for Cape Cod Life
magazine
and way back when they first started in
the late 70s early 80s they would have
recipes from restaurants in their
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magazine
and they basically told me in exchange
for
mentioning that they're from the Cape
Cod Life magazine I could use any
recipes I wanted so it ended up being a
great
sort of win-win so that's at the last
chapter of the book
the rest so I covered the entirety of
Cape Cod in the book
I didn't want to show favoritism I grew
up in Yarmouth live in Yarmouth so
naturally
I could close my eyes and think of two
dozen restaurants from
near where I live from my lifetime
but what I did was hundreds and hundreds
of hours of research
to make sure that the entirety of the
Cape was represented
the basis of this book was a 2005 Ohio
State University study
that explained that 60 percent of
restaurants don't survive
their first season and eighty percent
go under within five years and I’m sure
a lot of you have seen
restaurants I mean COVID kind of
accelerated some
but before that that you would see
restaurants come in
have a big grand opening and fade away
within a year or two
what I focused on was those restaurants
that have
that had come and gone but they had a
huge impact
they came and made a big impact and
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so this book is filled with a lot of
those
and for those of you that you know
beyond Falmouth I mean you probably have
heard of Thompson’s Clam Bar
Mildred’s Chowder House places like that
that's some examples of ones that are
outside of Falmouth but without further
ado
let's take a scroll down memory lane
places that you will
know and love and remember so
this one I put first because
uh it's very unique it was on the
top of my list as far as Falmouth
centric
restaurants now granted it's in Woods
Hole but it's so
close so The Dome Restaurant
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the reason why I put this front and
center
first as far as places to talk about is
because it's being
worked on currently
so the plan is for the actual dome
itself to be
restored and possible
senior housing to be built around it in
the site of the former
Nautilus Motor Inn in 2016
the area was purchased for 2.9 million
dollars by a group called
Woods Hole Partners and that's who's
working on it right now
so The Dome Restaurant for those not
familiar with it it's down
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right near the Steamship Authority so
I’ve told people if you're driving down
going towards the Steamship Authority
once you can see the water
you're basically passing by the Dome
it is an authentic geodesic dome
much like Epcot Center in Disney and
there's a reason why because they were
built by the same person
a man named R. Buckminster Fuller and he
built this 54-foot diameter
geodesic dome and the restaurant itself
opened in 1954
and it was 170 seats the Dome was the
dining room
the kitchen and the rest of the
facilities were attached to it
and obviously it's a very unique
restaurant you can see in that
image on the right it's a postcard from
the Falmouth Historical Society
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that eating in a geodesic dome is quite
unique and so
people would flock to it but the problem
was
the geodesic dome in the summer
especially
conducts itself like a greenhouse which
made it very hot
and if you're talking the 50s and 60s
air conditioning wasn't
as prevalent I mean it was but
what they had to do and you can see in
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that picture on the right
on the left hand side of the postcard
there's that
white white thing hanging down it's a
tarp
the tarp was put over much of the dome
to shield it from the sun and keep it
from getting too hot
and so unfortunately you know it it got
to be
you wanted to eat at the Dome for the
view and then most of the view was
obstructed by a tarp
because it was too hot
the Dome closed in 2002 officially
it has been sitting there
basically decaying for the last nearly
20 years
there's been plans to at the very least
preserve it for history but now the idea
is to
refurbish the dome and create the senior
housing near it so
luckily this spot will seemingly be
around for a long time
however the Dome is far from the only
spot
in Falmouth that gained iconic
status so do you remember
Elsie’s also known as Elsie’s Lunch
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and this is also a postcard from the
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this restaurant was owned by a couple
Elsie and Henry Bowman
and they're very unique because they
fled
Germany ahead of World War II in the
late 1930s
and they actually settled up in Boston
and in 1955 Elsie and Henry
opened a sandwich shop in Harvard Square
that was also called
Elsie’s and it was very popular
they had sandwiches like fresher's dream
which was essentially you would consider
it a New York deli
sandwich or a Dagwood depending on what
you know it as
with ham turkey and corned beef they
also had the Elsie’s roast beef special
which was roast beef and onions German
mustard Russian dressing
and relish and Elsie worked hard
she worked hard at her restaurant in
Harvard Square
and what ended up happening was in 1965
she had a heart attack
so basically they told her you need to
retire
and what else he did was she retired to
Cape Cod moved to Falmouth
and stayed retired for about a year
before
she opened the second Elsie’s which was
on Palmer Avenue in 1966.
it stayed open through 1986 it was very
popular all the way through
before she eventually really retired in
1986
now the spot is a place called
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which is still there that was Elsie’s
way back in the day
some of these legendary establishments
are still standing and
still open today and that's a neat thing
about
doing this being Falmouth centric was
the original Historic Restaurants
book every place in there was closed
and my publisher they dealt with that
one all right
they made it a point that for the Cape
Cod Nights book the nightlife
I needed to have at least a few places
that were still open in there
and the Iconic Hotels and Motels
they needed at least half of them to
still be open
so luckily a place like the Silver
Lounge restaurant which is still open
that's neat because you can see the
presentation and then go out to
Route 28a and check them out
they've been open since 1938
they've got a unique nautical theme
inside
where there's driftwood adorning some of
the walls in there from local beaches
they're known for seafood steaks
sandwiches
typical American fare the property was
once owned by a man named Manuel White
and it was bought by William Early and
he's the one
that opened it on May 28 1938
and early he was cross
promotion he came from a spot called the
Coonamessett Inn
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and they're still going strong there's
Uncle Bill's Country Store which is a
gift shop
right next to it so that's another
spot Route 28a that's kind of the nice
back roads but not back roads where
Route 28 I know out there is more of a
highway
but some of these places are a part of
recent Cape Cod history
and that talks to on the left the Nimrod
that just recently was torn down
it was on Dillingham Avenue
and it's mostly known for being
hit by a cannonball during the war of
1812
the restaurant itself was named for
the British ship the HMS Nimrod
uh before so this wasn't the original
location of the Nimrod
Dillingham Avenue it was actually
located
at a different spot in town and it was
known as the Boxwood Club
but then in the 1950s it was moved to
its spot
at Dillingham Avenue where it flourished
from there
the problem was that as it turned to the
21st century
the building was falling out of code
to the point where I guess if you had
the owners had
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saved but it turned out that
when they went to the health department
and such to see
how much it would cost to bring the
building up to code it was 2 million
dollars
and this is more than 10 years ago
so they ended up closing the restaurant
officially in 2012
and it sat the building decayed people
came in looking to buy
but what ended up happening was they
bought it more for
the property and less for the
restaurant itself now it's an empty lot
unfortunately they tried to save it
to make it you know a part of the
register of historic places but it did
not happen
the Leeside Bar and Grill that much
like the Dome is with an eyesight of the
Steamship Authority
that was Luscombe Avenue right there
near Water Street
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in Woods Hole they were open for
more than 60 years as
kind of a restaurant bar
and it's known for its odd shape because
it's where
two roads meet so it's got almost a
triangular
shape to it the building itself is still
there
in 2013 the Leeside closed
and it was quickly purchased and
reopened as Quick’s Hole
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it's interesting to see these places and
know that you can
go back and you can see a place like the
Leeside even though it's in a different
it's a different name now
other spots that were in the book and
that I researched
for this presentation are part of a
bygone generation
The Bellows is an interesting one it was
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on
Falmouth Heights Road and from 1933 to
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it was a restaurant it was started as
more of a tea room
which I’m not it's kind of
lighter fare lunch and obviously
tea but it was opened by a woman named
Thekla Hedlund and she was from Long
Island
and it was a tea room with lobster and
more
so it became it started as a tea room
but she had a connection
that could get her fresh lobster so she
decided she'd be crazy not to do that
so it became more of a breakfast and
lunch place
and it was very successful the problem
was that
Thekla Hedlund even though she had her
family helping her out it's a lot of
work
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that's only open during the summer
she would be down on the Cape for the
summer
spring summer and go back to Long Island
in the off season
in 1946 she had a massive
stroke and died shortly thereafter
what ended up happening was the family
sold The Bellows itself the restaurant
and a man came in and bought it ran it
for two more years as The Bellows but
when you buy an existing restaurant and
it's yours
you kind of you say you're gonna run it
as the previous owners did but then you
get your own ideas of what
you want to do with that property since
you own it
so what they did was change the name to
The Red Horse
Grill that only lasted for about
two years before it became known as the
Red Horse
Inn and the Red Horse Inn is still
standing
so unfortunately I couldn't get a better
photo with the postcard on the right
but it's the same building and if you
come for next week's presentation the
Red Horse Inn is front and center
so you may hear a little bit of this
similarity
but The Bellows was one of those hidden
gems that when doing my research
for the restaurants book it was
something I had never heard of and it
was a neat
unique story of a tea room that became a
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lunch breakfast lunch place with lobster
and Thekla Hedlund she was a unique
person to
run this spot
so also falling along those lines
of The Bellows was the Hangar Tea Room
and the reason why I put this I could
not find a photo of the Hangar Tea Room
so the Megansett Tea Room in North
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Falmouth it's the same kind of idea
where like I mentioned a tea room is
lighter fare sandwiches
drinks the Hangar Tea Room is an
interesting one and I wrote
a longer story about it for I have a
blog
called the In My Footsteps Podcast Blog
now and I do a lot of Cape Cod history
over there I used to write a lot for
capecod.com I did
Cape Cod Cape Cod history
articles I left there about two years
ago because
I wanted to basically write about things
I found interesting and not
have to run it by an editor so that's
what I ended up doing and the Hangar Tea
Room
is a pretty good story that's on that
blog
so it started off in 1923 as a tea room
called the Gray Gull
and then a woman named Mary Fellows she
bought it
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and ran it throughout much of the 1920s
and it had music and dancing this was
during Prohibition
so when you're running a place that has
entertainment during Prohibition you've
got to
make it good because there's no alcohol
to kind of keep people around
in 1930 it became known as the Hangar
Tea Room
and this is where the story gets
interesting
there was a man named William Wagner who
bought it and ran it the problem was
that it be there was a lot of complaints
about
noise cars parked all over the place
and also people drunk stumbling out into
the street
so during Prohibition when all these
things are happening
that kind of gets the antenna going of
the local police
and what ended up happening was on
November 3rd
1933 the police raided the Hangar Tea
Room
and they found alcohol they found
gambling equipment in there
and they essentially shut them down
briefly what happened was
William Wagner not too long after I mean
Prohibition
was overturned not too long after they
were raided so it was right on the cusp
so after Prohibition was overturned
William Wagner
tried to go and get an actual liquor
license for the Hangar Tea Room
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and he was turned down he even though it
was so close to the end of Prohibition
the town didn't forget that he had his
speakeasy there
so he even had his wife Dorothy
running it trying to get her like all
right we're not associated with
William Wagner anymore but still his
wife
eventually they gave them a liquor
license but it was too late
they closed down before the end of the
1930s
and William Wagner he did not like
having his
liquor license application turned down
so he decided to run for selectmen in
the town
and unfortunately for him he ran for
selectmen
11 times and he lost 11 times
so he did not have much luck once he was
raided
by the police in 1933 kind of went
downhill from there
some of these spots were a short drive
away
and Quintal’s
was just over the Bourne Bridge today
it's
uh Dunkin’ Donuts in a Speedway I believe
right where the Bourne Rotary is that
leads you into Wareham or up onto Route
25 Quintal’s was open
from the mid-60s through 2005
and I’m actually working on an in-depth
article about the history of the
Quintals and the family Robert and
Gloria who
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#quintals
#bournebridge
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started it because I didn't realize how
how far their reach went I thought of
Quintal’s as
Bourne slash Buzzards Bay and this one
restaurant
but it turns out they had four
restaurants at once
so they had this one here they opened
one in Hyannis at the airport rotary
in the early 80s so it was
Red Coach Grill later it was Chili's
and in between it was Quintal's Red
Cabin
and it was brief they only had it there
for maybe three years
and it's interesting because they
expanded and all the expansions
didn't last that long because in
Yarmouth
they had Quintal Seafood was the name
of it
I believe they opened in 1979
and by 1983 they were closed and
replaced by
Oliver’s which is still there
the other one was actually
on the Cranberry Highway in Wareham
and it was called the Crack O Dawn
they actually weren't
weren't too long ago that they closed
down within the last
seven eight years and they were more of
a breakfast place Crack O Dawn with a
little rooster on the sign interesting
thing about Quintal’s was
they in 2005 after the
the parents Robert had passed away and
Gloria was
she was older she was retired they were
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#hyannis
#redcoachgrill #chilis
#quintalsredcabin
#quintalseafood
#1979
#1983
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selling it and they planned on closing
it at the end of the 2005
season but a fire broke out
in June of 2005 and it they
took it as a sign basically that it was
they didn't have the money or the time
to repair
the restaurant to reopen for a few more
months so they just closed it down
and it was interesting they sold it to
Christy Mihos
who he put his Christy’s in there but
then he went out of business
and on the right The Flume
was located in Mashpee it's now
the Naukabout Brewery but it was
owned for 32 years by High Chief Earl
Mills
he was known as Flying Eagle of the
Wampanoag
Tribe and what he did was he
had his own recipes that he grew up with
from his
family his parents and he put that into
everything all of his meals the Flume
it was interesting I interviewed Earl
Mills
for the restaurant's book and it's just
a funny story because he
I had him come and speak at the book
launch event
for it and he basically he was telling a
lot of the same stories that he told me
on the phone
the only problem was on the phone his
stories were
very R-rated with a lot of swears
and as he's telling these stories about
working in a kitchen and
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#christys
#flumerestaurant
#mashpee
#naukaboutbrewery
#earlmills
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being a chef I just was cringing like oh
god please don't
swear so much because I was trying to
keep it where people were recording it
but he didn't he was good about that
another interesting thing so there's a
recipe in the book
from the Flume it's his Indian pudding
and I spoke to him I said oh yeah I put
a recipe of yours in the book
from Cape Cod life magazine and he
quickly cut me off and he said oh yeah
that's not the right recipe
and I was like wait what do you mean and
he was he was writing a cookbook of his
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and what he told me was why the hell
would I
give them the recipe for free when I
could put it in my book and make money
off
of it and Earl Mills he's a hoot he
definitely
he was worth the time to interview
and there were icons of the Falmouth
restaurant scene like Danny-Kay's
which is on Route 28 it was opened
from 1959 to 1977
classic Italian restaurant owned by the
Bartolomei
family the grandson
of the owners Jay Bartolomei he owns a
spot called the Villaggio
in Cotuit so if you
went to Danny-Kay’s and you enjoyed their
food
you can go and kind of get a taste of it
at the Villaggio
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Cape Cod Wampanoag Cookbook,
by Earl Mills & Betty Breen
#danny-kays
#1959 #1977
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I find it interesting that Danny-Kay’s was
an icon of
Falmouth restaurants and yet the place
the spot that replaced it
the Golden Sails Chinese restaurant has
been around for
more than twice as long as Danny-Kay’s
was there
and I don't know I’ve never eaten at the
Golden Sails I don't know how it is but
you know there they've been there for
more than 40 years
and there were also legends nearby the
Tin Man Diner
so it ended up being a part of Falmouth
restaurants but it got its start
far away from there so the diner car
itself so on the right
the original was called the Sterling
Steam Line
Streamliner diner car
the original was known as the Jimmy
Evans Flyer
and it was located in New Bedford and
opened in 1940.
Jimmy Evans was a vaudeville entertainer
and he didn't run it himself he had his
wife run it
but he put his name on it figuring that
Jimmy Evans people would know
him and come to eat there thinking you
know he's got his name on it
it must be good in 1960
the Jimmy Evans Flyer was purchased
and it was no
uh that's it um he just referenced
oops he just referenced
building quality [unintelligible]
[unintelligible] takes about eight to ten
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#tinmandiner
#sterlingstreamliner
#jimmyevansflyer
#newbedford
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months
and I didn't exactly know what that
meant
not sure I follow that
so the Tin Man Diner was moved
to the Otis rotary where
stayed open as the oldest rotary diner
in the 1970s
then later on it was known as Mary
Muffins
but then it was leased to a woman named
Barbara Lind she's on the left
left-hand side of the left photo with
her daughter
and it was renamed My Tin Man Diner
it had a lot of military memorabilia
and Wizard of Oz memorabilia located in
there
unfortunately in 2000 it was
subject to arson the jealous boyfriend
of a waitress there
burned the building down and it was sad
because
a lot of the regular customers
would come to the charred remains in the
parking lot and sit there with their and
have coffee
where the building used to be
luckily there was a happy ending because
in 2008
it was resurrected in Falmouth and
that's the one that's on the left
it lasted for another three years
On County Road in North Falmouth before
eventually closing in 2011
but that was one interviewing Barbara
Lind
it spoke to the overall impact that
these
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#2000
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restaurants had Barbara Lind sent me
these photos of
the Tin Man Diner and she was so
overwhelmed
with happiness and almost like a
validation
that I had included her building her
restaurant in my book
and that's the way I found it with this
book that
I didn't put any spot in there that I
didn't think belonged
as a historic iconic Cape Cod location
and that's what I found that's why when
doing the research for
the Falmouth area I wanted to make sure
it was places that
stuck out that deserve to be mentioned
and remembered
and no matter what though these spots in
there
they deserve to be remembered and
celebrated for the good
more than the good food but the good
memories that they give to people
and that's kind of where I fall on this
that it's bringing back the memories and
how you felt
being there just as much as it is about
the restaurants themselves
and I finished it with a couple of
different shots of Main Street Falmouth
#mainstreet
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one looks like it's from the early 40s
and the others from the
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probably early 60s but that's where we
wrap things up
with my presentation on historic
restaurants of the Falmouth area
and if there are any questions I will do
my best to
answer them I’m going to
stop sharing the screen
so if Sue I don't know if you want to
open it up
oh okay yeah um we had one in the chat
and someone asked what about Lawrence’s
#lawrencessandwichdepot
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do you know anything about that one
that is one that I’ve heard of I think
Lawrence’s sandwich shop is that
because that's been on a I don't know
much about it myself
but it was on it was on my list for the
original book the idea is
some places had as I say more meat on
the bone
thankfully in the years since
I did this book there's been more in the
way of
research opportunities online newspaper
archives that have allowed me to
expand that's why a place like Quintal’s
or a place like the Hangar Tea Room that
I wasn't able to get in
the original book I can now research
because of these expanded I mean
Falmouth Library they've got the
newspaper archives they go up to
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1962 I believe so those
are fun to check out yeah we actually
have them we have microfilm too oh hold
on one second yeah we have microfilm of
those
um if you could turn your camera on if
you have a question and
just raise your hand and then we'll know
who's talking
does anyone
okay yeah I don't see any other
questions in the chat but if anyone
wants to ask a question or
mention anything about me these
restaurants just turn your camera on if
you can
or if you don't have a camera you can
unmute yourself too well I
see in the chat about the casino the
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casino
next week that's from my Cape Cod Nights
book
there were some places that
doubled as restaurants and nightclubs
there were some that doubled as
restaurants and hotels
so I had to pick and choose what went
where
now that's not to say that I didn't have
places that were
in multiple books a place like The
Columns that used to exist in West
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was in the restaurant's book and in the
nightlife book because
it doubled as a jazz club so the casino
you will see
um can you tell us just a little bit
more about your research for these books
too like
how do you approach these books when you
write them
so first thing with this restaurant's
book
basically the publisher came to me and
said
you can have any anywhere from five to
forty restaurants
and that was basically the only
restriction I had
so what I did was I asked family
parents grandparents friends about Cape
cod what places do you remember going
that you liked
and I jotted all of them down I think I
ended up with
almost a hundred wow and
then what I did was pick the ones that I
knew were the big time ones
Thompson’s Clam Bar Mildred’s Chowder
House
and the like and then ones that I wasn't
as familiar with
like when I saw the Dome I said oh my
god this place is awesome
because you can still go see it I mean
it's kind of
decayed but hopefully they're fixing it
but you start to pick your definite ones
that go in there
and I had a plan to do 40 restaurants
it was a nice round number with 40,000
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words
was kind of the word count but it ended
up not happening so that's where the
recipes came from
oh yeah that's yeah that's Olde Surrey
#smithsoldesurreyroom
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Room is next week too
you're picking ones that see they fell
kind of in between
where believe me I’ve got photos of both
Smith’s Olde Surrey Room is is going to
be in the Cape Cod Nights
next week and the casino casino
Brothers Four it's interesting when I
did my
research for the Cape Cod Nights book I
didn't realize
that Terrace Gables which is it's next
#brothersfour
#terracegables
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week as well
a huge luxury hotel right on
uh Falmouth Heights right on the
Falmouth Road Race running route
I didn't realize that that became
Brothers Four
that it was basically they just put a
nightclub entertainment complex into
this hotel
and the same with the casino that that
they were
like neighbors and it's so interesting
that it got repurposed as that
but oh believe me that's that's coming
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too
cool yeah that'll be a great
presentation
especially yeah it'll cover a lot
because it's a hotel it's two different
books hotels and nightclubs so
yes and I’ve got a whole brand new
presentation for that as well
oh that's great no we appreciate that
because even your books
to begin with you know cover a lot so
the fact that you went and found even
more on Falmouth that's great
and I enjoyed I took it as kind of a
challenge
to make it where it was worth it for the
people that came to
check it out to make it where it wasn't
just
three or four places from the book that
it fleshed out to a full
presentation and Falmouth was easier
than if you
told me to do it for like Wellfleet
Wellfleet would be a lot harder
Truro I I don't think they were even
represented in the restaurant's book and
I tried
but Truro it was a needle in a haystack
yeah there aren't a lot of restaurants
there that's for sure well I couldn't
even I don't think I could name you
one currently let alone
back 40 50 years ago yeah
yeah maybe one okay does anyone have any
questions or does anyone have any
comments in any of these restaurants if
they had been there
yes did I do justice to because so the
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place
I could tell you the ones that I pulled
from the book that I have
you can tell the ones I have more
knowledge of the Dome
Elsies The Bellows The Flume
Tin Man Diner but places
like the Leeside and the Nimrod
those I weren't as familiar with so I
tried to do my best to
get information that I could share so
that it wasn't
just a photo and me skipping by
yeah I’m not from Falmouth myself so I
don't know any of these but I’m sure
some of these folks probably do
and someone typed that they had some
good memories I wonder if
who if anyone knew about Hangar Tea Room
room and the speakeasy because that was
fascinating
I did an article about it that goes way
more in depth
but I’ve started to become a big fan of
finding
speakeasies and writing about them there
was one I’m from Yarmouth and there's a
famous one called the Casa Madrid that's
down near the beaches
and it basically in 1933 it opened as
dinner and dancing and within six weeks
they had been raided and shut down
because they were speakeasy and they
didn't hide it very well
there were Boston-based politicians that
were supposedly
legend has it there when it got raided
and they jumped out the back window
to escape wow
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yeah that would be interesting well
maybe someone will come to us with some
of these stories at some point today
we can relay them yeah definitely if
anyone has any places they want me to
research and then do a future article on
I also do podcasts and I share a lot of
Cape Cod history there the podcast is
more New England-centric
but I have I did a stand-alone about the
Cape Cod Coliseum and things like that
yeah and I think
on your website is probably your email I
assume that people can contact you if
they have questions yes sir
I mean I have it too but I didn't I
think you have it posted on your website
too
and the website is good it's got so it
has my first
five books my sixth one hasn't been
uploaded yet but obviously you can get
it
pretty much anywhere and it's got
a link to my podcast and a link to I was
on
Chronicle two years ago this week so I
have that
embedded there so you can see it oh wow
that's great okay well
we'll definitely look forward to seeing
you next week and
hopefully you guys will all be back and
if you have anyone else that might be
interested in hearing about that that's
next week too
yeah yeah we do yeah and I’ll I’ll try
to get the link out to people who
attended this just so you'll have it too
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thanks everybody for coming and
have a great rest of your night and
hopefully we'll see you next week or at
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Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: September 22, 2021
Oral Historian: Reverend Nell Fields
Interviewer: Anna Lee
Topic: Waquoit Congregational Church
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[Music]
00:45
so the church obviously it's this really
00:47
striking building and it's had a lot of
00:50
time to become embedded in the fabric of
00:52
the community
00:53
so if you could just do a rundown of the
00:55
history for me tell me a little bit
00:57
about how that started
00:59
uh absolutely and first of all thank you
01:01
for inviting me here uh Waquoit
#waquoitcongregationalchurch
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Congregational Church
01:07
was built in 1848
01:12
so it's not
01:13
that old
01:15
and the reason why uh the folks in the
01:18
village decide to build the church is
01:19
they got tired of walking to the East
01:23
Falmouth church which is in Hatchville
01:26
and if if if that weren't far enough
#1848
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some of the folks were going to the
01:30
downtown church and they said you know
01:32
let's save some time let's let's build a
01:35
church so they built
01:37
uh the
01:38
the building for
01:41
1350
01:42
dollars
01:43
and back in the day
01:45
we didn't have they didn't have enough
01:47
money
01:49
to really do the inside with that fancy
01:51
plaster that you have so they used
01:55
poor man's plaster which is tin
01:58
so we're
01:59
one of the few churches I know of on the
02:02
Cape that have
02:04
that has tin on the ceilings and tin on
02:07
the walls
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and it's not
02:10
just one
02:12
type of panels there's 18 different
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tin
02:17
panels in there
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I said to somebody now how do you know
02:20
they're 18. and they said oh I counted
02:23
them I said I hope you didn't do that
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during my sermon
02:26
so nowadays it's it's it's really lovely
02:29
and it's very very expensive now to have
02:33
tin panels but back in the day and it
02:35
started off as a summer church
02:38
and it became really a year-round church
02:41
in the 1950s
02:43
and when it was built it was
02:46
the the color scheme of the day was
02:50
white with dark green corner boards and
02:54
dark green
02:56
shutters I wore my dark green clergy
02:59
shirt to to show the listeners the
03:02
viewers
03:03
the the color that it was but when I
03:06
arrived there 11 years ago it was all
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white
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with black shutters
03:12
and the white wasn't even painted it was
03:15
vinyl siding
03:18
and we noticed when the the vitals vinyl
03:21
siding was starting to crack we noticed
03:23
that there was some rot there
03:25
and we were very fortunate to get a CPC
03:27
grant
03:28
to
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renovate
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the church
03:32
and so we peeled off the the vinyl
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siding and it revealed these dark corner
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boards
03:41
underneath
03:43
white that had been painted over them
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and
03:48
we wanted to go back to what the church
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was originally but it originally looked
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like and we took a sample of that and it
03:55
wasn't black it was this very
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specific
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dark
04:00
green and so we painted it
04:04
so it could look like it did in 1848
04:08
that's really fascinating so there was a
04:10
um a strong historical restoration
04:13
component to that renovation then right
04:15
oh my gosh that I’m getting absolutely
04:18
so we restored it to the original color
04:21
and just as an aside
04:24
just to give you an idea of how iconic
04:27
that church is because many people if
04:29
you're going to downtown Falmouth you
04:31
pass that church when we repainted it
04:34
and restored it
04:38
instead of using a white primer on those
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corner boards you want to use a little
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bit darker color and so our painter
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used a
04:49
oh like a turquoise a Key West green
04:53
just as the primer well people had no
04:56
idea was the primer they thought that's
04:58
what we were painting the church
05:00
I got more phone calls
05:03
and some not very pleasant phone calls
05:05
like I can't believe that you're
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painting that you know Key West green
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the Chamber got calls the town got calls
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and finally I I told our painter I said
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can you just
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you know get a piece of plywood and
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write the word primer on it and so he he
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wrote “it's primer”
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so we had that leaning up against the
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church while we were renovating that
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uh kind of interestingly
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when we were we had to replace some of
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the siding and as we peeled back the
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siding
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we saw what our
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what the the folks used for
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insulation
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it was a newspaper
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back from the 1800s
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so there's nothing there's really
05:50
nothing between the siding in that tin
05:52
but old newspaper and I was able to save
05:55
some of it it's all in like six point
05:57
type and one of the stories talked about
06:00
a neighborhood lad who got lost in the
06:03
woods but he was found
06:05
you know that was that was exciting news
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back then
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that idea of um being able to peel back
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the surface to see history underneath
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that is um really interesting I think
06:15
one of the things we're trying to get at
06:16
with this project so I’m glad you
06:18
brought that up and it does sound like
06:21
um people are very invested in the idea
06:24
of the church as a local icon
06:27
and they they really want to weigh in on
06:29
what they see and how they how they
06:30
perceive it as part of the community
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yes and especially for
06:34
in our situation Waquoit is the smallest
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village in
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in Falmouth and
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the the church over the years really has
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become
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the heart
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of the village
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when these
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buildings were erected
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initially they were not only a church
06:55
they were a meeting house they were the
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center for activity in the village and
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if there was something of important that
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people needed to discuss everybody would
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gather in there and they would you know
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talk about it and and now we've really
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become the focus of the community not
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only because of the building but all the
07:16
things that we do
07:18
to reach out to the community and invite
07:20
the community in together
07:23
but the outside of the building
07:25
doesn't tell the full story
07:27
because as iconic as it is on the
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outside
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it's equally iconic
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inside
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because
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the folks who belong to that church
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actually
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paid for the church
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by buying a pew
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and so our pews are still numbered and
07:49
if maybe the Fields family had 16 or the
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Bourne family had
07:54
20 and they
07:56
literally paid for the pew they built
07:59
their own
08:00
book rack you can go into that church
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and there's
08:04
oh five or six different designs on the
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book rack
08:08
of course the Fields family had
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something very plain but the Bournes had a
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very scrolled book rack they made their
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own elbow rest
08:16
it's just like a curve thing it's not
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very
08:19
comfortable
08:20
the person who was in pew 27 liked to
08:24
chew tobacco and um
08:27
there's still a spittoon on the floor so
08:30
you and you pick up
08:31
the cover of it and it's all copper
08:34
inside
08:36
we use that during the summer
08:39
to put a dehumidifier hose in
08:43
the other thing that's sort of iconic is
08:45
is
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looking at the changes over the years
08:49
that our foreparents
08:51
made
08:53
when this was first built there was no
08:55
altar area that came a little bit later
08:58
there's a step and then the altar area
09:01
uh about six seven years ago
09:05
we had to replace that platform because
09:07
it got a little squishy and and one of
09:09
our folks replaced it and just left the
09:12
wood out in the back
09:14
and I thought oh I better haul that wood
09:16
away and when I looked at the wood that
09:19
that platform first was built
09:22
it had stencil on it
09:24
and it said
09:25
to Waquoit Church
09:27
from
09:28
the New England Organ Company
09:32
good old Yankees we built that first
09:34
platform on with the crate
09:38
that our first organ
09:40
came in
09:41
um I looked at that uh
09:43
the New England Organ Company went out
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of business in the
09:48
late 1800s so I I’m pretty sure that
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that was
09:52
the original platform at the time
09:55
wow so there are a lot of really it
09:57
sounds like interesting
09:58
personal decorative details really
10:00
worked into yeah
10:02
I didn't even get to the the beautiful
10:05
uh chandelier that's in the map in the
10:07
middle it's Sandwich glass and it was
10:09
originally uh filled with whale oil and
10:12
you have to go up into the attic
10:14
to
10:15
crank that
10:17
line down we now replaced it with with a
10:19
chain in order to fill it
10:22
with whale oil and we have Sandwich
10:25
glass lanterns on the side that are now
10:27
electric
10:29
and and the other thing that we did over
10:31
the years is that we did put seat
10:33
cushions in
10:34
new seat cushions because they didn't
10:36
have them
10:37
it was all wooden pews
10:39
but we also
10:41
extended the seat cushion for about
10:44
two to three inches because
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over the years
10:47
you know people have gotten a little a
10:49
little bit bigger than our foreparents
10:52
yeah it's the little things it's the
10:53
little things but got to keep people
10:55
comfortable during those hour-long
10:57
service
10:58
hour-long sermons thinking about all
11:01
that I can imagine that there must be a
11:03
really strong sense of personal
11:04
investment people have really left their
11:06
mark and been allowed to
11:08
see that they have left their mark
11:09
themselves their families
11:11
and
11:12
that concept and the idea of
11:15
faith communities working to build
11:17
something that has a lasting impact in
11:18
the community
11:20
is a theme that's come up um over and
11:22
over again in these interviews
11:23
is there something along those lines
11:25
that you want to
11:26
reach something recent or ongoing that
11:28
you want to spotlight in terms of that
11:30
kind of project that reaches out to the
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community
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um
11:34
well I think for us it's sort of ongoing
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you know we're we're here for the
11:38
community we respond to the community
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one thing I do want to highlight is
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um
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I’ve always seen
11:46
our chapel I call it a chapel because
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it's it's tiny and it's so beautiful
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I’ve always seen our chapel as a place
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of light and and
11:57
metaphorically of course and so I’ve
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always thought this is a place of light
12:02
for people this is a a harbor a safety
12:06
place
12:07
a place where people can come no matter
12:08
who they are and feel welcome there
12:13
fast forward a couple of years I learned
12:15
what the word Waquoit means it's a
12:17
Wampanoag word and it means
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a place of light
12:22
and and I think it just sort of
12:25
the the the sanctuaries and everything
12:28
it represents just sort of speaks for
12:29
itself it is a place of light in a
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village
12:34
that is a place of light
#wampanoag
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that's wonderful and I do think I know
12:38
what you mean in the sense that um
12:42
you know you're right there in Waquoit
12:43
Village kind of out on the edge of
12:44
everything right out to the sea
12:47
and um
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that becomes people
12:50
people build a strong sense of identity
12:52
in a place like that and that becomes
12:53
something that's entrenched
12:55
oh
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I’ve had you're absolutely right I’ve
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had so many people uh tell me that
13:01
it just makes them smile makes them
13:02
happy when they drive by that church I
13:06
can't I personally
13:08
cannot ever imagine
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that church
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not being there
13:14
because it is so
13:15
um identified with Waquoit it's so
13:18
identified with that community and and
13:21
back in the day
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you could go up in the balcony and you
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could see Waquoit Bay that was our you
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know the the first harbor that the town
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ever had was in Waquoit Bay
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and
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sailors actually used our steeple
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to find their way home
13:38
sail toward the steeple and now that
13:41
steeple is used
13:43
for the Falmouth Airpark they always
13:45
know that they're home because they're
13:46
flying toward the steeple so it's a it's
13:49
a place of light and it's a it's a
13:51
beacon that it it almost calls to you as
13:54
you're rounding the bend as you're
13:55
coming
13:56
from Mashpee toward Falmouth you you just
13:59
you know that you're home because you
14:00
see that steeple
14:02
that is really wonderful and I think
14:04
maybe living in Falmouth some people
14:06
might become
14:08
not used to but we have
14:09
so many historical um
14:12
interesting historical buildings so many
14:14
hallmarks of the you know the history we
14:16
share around us that maybe
14:18
we might be tempted to take for granted
14:20
the idea that
14:22
we still have existing around us all
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these
14:25
markers of you know the common identity
14:27
that we've built the ways we delineate
14:28
you know this is our place this is our
14:30
community
14:31
so it's it's great to be reminded of
14:32
that and know that something like that
14:34
is still out there and still
14:37
being you know
14:38
seen for the same purpose interpreted
14:40
for the same purpose
14:41
yeah now I think what what is unique
14:43
about um the Waquoit church is that it's
14:46
just right out there in the open
14:48
by itself I mean we have some historical
14:50
houses around it but there's there's
14:52
there's no crowding there's there's
14:54
there's nothing else around it so it's
14:56
it's just out
14:59
there and it doesn't get lost
15:03
in other buildings or with other
15:04
buildings
15:06
you said that you don't think you could
15:09
imagine Waquoit without the church and
15:11
I think for exactly the reason you just
15:13
described I think that's true for a lot
15:14
of people
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it stands out
15:17
but um to pivot a little bit maybe to
15:20
speak about getting lost in a
15:21
metaphorical sense um
15:24
and especially
15:25
when we're talking about community
15:26
initiatives um is there anything in
15:29
terms of challenges that you faced in
15:31
the past year or so during the pandemic
15:33
that you think stand out in the history
15:35
of the church
15:37
um
15:41
the the pandemic was
15:44
an incredible time of growth for us
15:48
and you use my the word du jour pivot I
15:51
mean it was like
15:52
boom we had to pivot immediately so
15:56
we uh we never missed a Sunday
15:59
we had uh
16:00
technology our first thing of technology
16:02
was an iPhone and an iPad and we were we
16:06
went to Zoom and Facebook and now we
16:07
have cameras and and lights and and
16:10
everything else and uh the pandemic
16:13
taught us the value
16:15
of community and that
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I think we were people were more willing
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to be vulnerable with each other and
16:23
that hunger to connect and to be part of
16:26
something
16:27
greater than yourself really
16:30
really came through and we're we're a
16:32
different church we're a better church
16:35
a more responsive church than we were
16:37
before and oh my gosh we were very
16:40
involved
16:41
with
16:42
with the community and responding to
16:44
community
16:45
needs but during the pandemic it it
16:47
really it got real we started a food
16:50
program
16:52
we were delivering meals to
16:54
people in need on a weekly basis and my
16:57
idea was of need is not only a monetary
17:00
need but
17:02
parents who were just done with cooking
17:04
for the week um you know they would they
17:07
would call me up or somebody would
17:09
nominate them and we delivered them a
17:11
full meal for Christmas
17:13
we
17:14
uh partnered with our our good friends
17:16
The Buffalo Jump who they live in Waquoit
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17:18
and we gave away drive through 800
17:23
fully cooked turkey dinners
17:27
we wouldn't even
17:28
we didn't even think about that pre
17:30
pandemic and the fact that we have this
17:33
small church with this like big heart
17:35
just delights me some and I think that's
17:37
what people
17:38
see and feel
17:40
and and and think about when they drive
17:42
by that chapel oh that's the church that
17:45
does this that's the church that feeds
17:48
people that's the church that has great
17:50
music that's the church that does these
17:52
wonderful yard sales that the church
17:54
that
17:55
you know reaches out to inviting Afghan
17:58
families to come to development
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that's another interesting and really
18:02
topical question that I’d like to ask
18:04
you about if you could elaborate on that
18:06
a little bit
18:07
we are working with four other
18:09
individuals
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we
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started a group called Neighborhood
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um Support Team
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and we've identified three families who
18:20
are opening up their homes they had an
18:22
apartment maybe in their house or their
18:24
their summer folk
18:26
that we're going to we've asked to
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resettle
18:29
uh three families from Afghanistan here
18:32
to Falmouth so we're currently working
18:34
with a an agency
18:36
they're waiting for those families to
18:38
come in from the military bases
18:40
and once they do they're going to show
18:43
families
18:44
our profile that we put together just
18:47
the greatness of a Falmouth you know our
18:49
scientific community and in Woods Hole
18:52
and
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we're ready we've got all our teams put
18:55
together we've raised
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we've raised money so we're ready to
18:59
welcome them
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I think
19:02
looping back to the topic of the
19:03
pandemic it's really a watershed moment
19:05
for a lot of institutions and I would
19:07
hope that the thing that gets hammered
19:09
home for people is that it is about
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19:12
standing up and making sure people don't
19:13
get left behind that's right which is I
19:16
see as the common theme of what you're
19:18
telling me
19:19
yes yes it's um
19:23
I think we saw that during the pandemic
19:26
and it's something that we've always
19:27
known
19:28
is that what
19:30
I think what makes Waquoit unique and
19:32
Falmouth unique is that
19:35
we do have a strong community and and
19:37
and because we're willing to reach out
19:39
and connect
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with others and to make sure that people
19:43
aren't
19:44
left behind and it's so easy to be left
19:47
behind in so many in so many different
19:50
ways
19:51
and the pandemic taught us that
19:54
um you know we do have to reach out
19:57
and welcome people welcome all people
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and that's the other thing that delights
20:02
me about uh Waquoit
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and and not you know when you walk
20:07
inside
20:08
that chapel you feel the sense of of
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welcome that yes you're kind of stepping
20:13
back in time but you're also stepping in
20:16
to a new future a new reality and when
20:20
you leave
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you're changed
20:24
and isn't that what's supposed to happen
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anyway
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I think so and I think the the extent to
20:29
which
20:30
you believe that is really obvious and
20:32
I’m really happy to see it and um just
20:34
just to wrap up is there anything else
20:36
that you want people to know about the
20:37
church if they're looking for
20:38
information
20:40
no matter who you are no matter what
20:42
you've done no matter what you believe
20:44
in you are
20:45
welcomed
20:46
at our church and you don't even have to
20:49
believe in anything
20:51
then and anytime you just want a tour
20:53
you know
20:54
stop by or give us a call and we're very
20:56
happy to do so oh that's wonderful
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well
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and thank you so much for coming it was
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great to have you as part of this
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project it was wonderful thank you so
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much
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Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth
Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript
Recorded: August 19, 2021
Oral Historian: Charles McCaffrey
Interviewer: Troy Clarkson
Topic: West Falmouth Library
Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital
Commonwealth online collection.
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[Music]
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so on the theme of libraries Charlie
00:47
welcome you are part of the West
#westfalmouthlibrary
Hunt_West_Bldg_479 through
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through 1563
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Falmouth Library which is
00:51
not only a beautiful and historic
00:54
building in the West Falmouth Village
00:56
but also an important part of the
00:58
community's culture and cultural history
01:01
so just please give us
01:03
a brief introduction of both the
01:04
building and the organization okay well
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you said my name is Charlie McCaffrey
01:10
I’m
01:11
a lifelong
01:13
summer resident of Falmouth
01:15
of North Falmouth actually not West
01:18
Falmouth
#westfalmouth
#northfalmouth
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and
01:20
I moved to Falmouth full time in
01:24
2005.
01:26
at that time I was aware of the
01:29
West Falmouth Library as a wonderful
01:31
building but I had never been in it and
01:34
a friend urged me
01:35
to go visit the West Falmouth Library
01:38
shortly after I moved full time
01:40
I quickly became involved with its
01:43
activities and learned a great deal
01:45
about its history
01:47
I was struck by the library because it
01:49
reminded me
01:51
physically of the small
01:53
branch library in Boston that I had went
01:56
to as a child it looked very similar
01:58
and that was the center of my childhood
02:01
in uh growing up in Boston
02:03
so I felt very comfortable
02:05
at the library and began to volunteer
02:08
for events
02:10
the library was started
02:13
in the late
02:16
19th century by the 1870s by a group of
02:19
women in West Falmouth who wanted to get
02:22
together and share books
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02:24
they
02:25
had a small building
02:27
which they quickly outgrew
02:29
and sought to develop a real library
02:32
and
02:32
got through the
02:34
generous donation of people in the
02:36
community they were able to acquire the
02:38
land that it's on
02:40
and to build
02:42
the main building
02:43
in
02:44
1895
02:47
and it's continued as a library since
02:49
1895.
02:51
initially staffed primarily by
02:54
volunteers
02:55
but increasingly over the last 20 years
02:58
by professional staff
03:03
the library building
03:04
uh
03:06
was added on to
03:08
in the 1970s
03:10
and then
03:11
we became aware
03:13
while I was on the Board of the library
03:16
that we needed to modernize and bring it
#1895
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up to the
03:21
21st century needs of a public library
03:25
I say public library we are a public
03:27
library
03:28
though we are not a municipal library we
03:30
receive a small amount of support from
03:33
the town but we need to raise
03:36
our budget
03:37
annually
03:39
to keep the library operating and thanks
03:42
to the generosity of people in West
03:44
Falmouth and in Falmouth as a whole and
03:46
be
03:47
beyond we're able to sustain a very
03:50
efficient library operation
03:52
but as I started to say we need
03:55
to recognize that the physical plan was
03:57
not adequate for a 21st century library
04:01
so we needed to add
04:03
such things as better accessibility
04:07
handicapped-accessible bathrooms
04:09
modern heating and ventilation uh
04:13
archive space that's temperature
04:15
controlled for the significant papers of
04:18
the history of West Falmouth that we
04:21
hold some going back to the
04:23
mid uh 17th century
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so in
04:30
2013 we began to raise funds
04:33
to renovate
04:35
the existing library to restore it to
04:37
its original
04:39
appearance
04:40
it had been well maintained
04:43
and not altered in any great detail
04:47
since 1895 but it certainly showed the
04:50
effects of 120 years of wear and tear
04:55
and to put in the modern features that
04:57
we needed without compromising the
05:01
original space we put on a small
05:03
addition
05:04
that has
05:06
the archive room
05:07
for handicap-accessible bathrooms a new
05:11
quiet reading room
05:12
uh stairs and in that great entrance
05:17
the general the project cost us
05:19
approximately
05:21
three million dollars
05:22
and through the generosity of the
05:25
community in a town and state grant
05:28
we were able to complete the project in
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2017.
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today we are
#2013
#2017
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open 30 hours a week
05:39
we have a professional staff
05:42
and we undertake many programs such as
05:45
lectures
05:46
music programs
05:48
children's programs that are open to the
05:51
whole town and are well attended by
05:53
people from throughout the town
05:56
thank you
05:57
for that wonderful history of the
06:00
organization and the building I always
06:02
say a library is the heart of a
06:04
community and that certainly is true for
06:06
the West Falmouth Library and I’m glad
06:08
you do the distinction
06:11
between the West Falmouth Library and
06:14
the Falmouth public slash municipal
06:16
library because
06:17
the West Falmouth Library is
06:21
open and accessible to the public and I
06:23
know that's an important part of your
06:24
mission
06:25
it is and it's interesting that
06:29
as a community center and that's very
06:32
much what it is as a library and has
06:33
always been that
06:35
but that also
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correlates well with what is happening
06:40
to libraries today
06:42
libraries are very much community
06:44
centers and a provision for the place
06:46
for the community to gather and
06:48
individuals to use for many purposes
06:51
they are not just
06:53
about lending books
06:56
particularly as
06:58
reading materials are available from
07:00
many sources they continue to provide
07:03
that
07:03
and need to expand what they provide
07:06
the key thing with the library is it
07:08
provides
07:10
materials for learning for free
07:14
but it complements that
07:17
with a variety of programs
07:19
that the community can enjoy in a place
07:22
where the community can gather
07:25
I remember
07:26
this is going back
07:28
some years but when I was running for
07:30
public office for the what was then
07:32
called the Board of Selectmen is today
07:34
called the Select Board uh local
07:36
candidate debates would be held at the
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West Falmouth Library and I know you
07:41
still have many of those civic events
07:42
there now and so that really reinforces
07:46
the role of a village community library
07:49
as as you say not just an institution
07:52
where you can experience information in
07:55
multimedia fashion but where you can
07:58
gather and be part of the community one
08:00
of the great events that I’ve enjoyed
08:03
participating in is one of the annual
08:05
fundraisers where people gather at the
08:07
library then fan out to different
08:09
people's homes to eat and then come back
08:11
for dessert tell us about that
08:13
that's called the Movable Feast it has
08:15
been a major fundraiser for the library
08:17
for the last 12 years
08:19
excepting
08:21
the last year of course because of the
08:23
pandemic
08:25
actually was an event that I started and
08:28
copied it from
08:30
an event of the same name and character
08:32
that was held by the Historic Albany
08:35
Foundation where I used to live before I
08:37
moved to
08:38
Falmouth um
#movablefeast
#pandemic
#historicalbanyfoundation
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it
08:41
well received it because it does
08:43
build
08:44
on and strengthen community interaction
08:48
the idea is that people come to the
08:50
library and they're randomly for
08:52
cocktails and then they're randomly
08:55
assigned
08:56
to one of a dozen homes in the
08:58
neighborhood
09:00
for dinner and conversation so they meet
09:03
new people
09:04
and then come back to the library and
09:06
where did you have dinner who did you
09:08
meet what
09:10
new people
09:11
uh have you found you know so it's it's
09:15
a very popular event uh
09:18
I would add on the community center role
09:21
of the library and how
09:23
that's not just a new concept in
09:25
libraries
09:26
but
09:27
when the library was built in 1895
09:30
the main building had two rooms of
09:32
approximate equal size one had the books
09:37
and the other was a community room which
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09:39
still exists
09:41
and did not have any books in it it had
09:43
a bench all the way around the perimeter
09:46
and it was for community gatherings so
09:49
it was built as much as a community as
09:52
much as a community center and gathering
09:54
place as a place for borrowing books
09:58
and because the the library has been
10:01
part of the community for
10:03
as you said more than 120 years now but
10:06
is also
10:07
the keeper of archives dating back even
10:09
before the building was built you
10:11
mentioned that your archives include uh
10:14
documents that date back to the 17th
10:16
century tell us about uh some of the
10:18
more interesting documents you have in
10:20
your collection uh one of the documents
10:22
is a deed
10:23
from a Wampanoag Indian
10:26
granting 30 acres of land
10:29
to I forget first name but a Gifford and
10:31
we know that his
10:33
name has a long history in town
10:36
uh so it's the actual deed from
10:39
1673 I believe of 30 acres of land in
10:42
West Falmouth to the
#wampanoag
#gifford
#1673
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10:44
Giffords um
10:47
I have a friend actually who's who
10:50
bought
10:51
the Giffords built a house
10:54
and today it's the oldest extant Cape Cod
10:57
style house
10:58
in
10:59
1678
11:01
and it remained in the Gifford family
11:04
until the early 90s
11:07
when actually a friend of mine acquired
11:10
it
11:11
and occasionally opens it to the public
11:15
so isn't that amazing so uh although the
11:17
building has been around for a little
11:20
more than a century it captures nearly
11:22
four centuries of local history yes
11:24
another document that's interesting is a
11:27
passport
11:29
for a ship
11:31
signed by
11:32
Secretary of State James Madison and
#jamesmadison
11:35
President Thomas Jefferson
#thomasjefferson
11:40
and it's an it's rather an elaborate
11:42
printed document with their signatures
11:45
for a ship that had been built in West
11:48
Falmouth Harbor and sailed around the
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11:50
world
11:51
isn't that amazing now in fast
11:53
forwarding all these years still today
11:56
the West Falmouth Library is an active
11:58
participant in
12:00
capturing today's history and and being
12:04
part of the living history like what
12:06
we're doing today
12:08
but also continuing to be a focal point
12:10
a gathering point as you called it for
12:12
the community yes and I do recall a
12:14
while ago
12:15
we did have an oral history project and
12:18
recorded some older residents of West
12:20
Falmouth
12:22
isn't that then that's so important like
12:24
what we're doing here today so that
12:25
future generations can understand uh
12:28
what life was like in in Falmouth uh in
12:31
2021 yeah
12:33
um
12:35
and I I would add
12:37
um I myself
12:39
uh I’m President of the Board
12:42
for another few days
12:44
but will continue in my involvement with
12:46
the library I’m giving a presentation
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at the library on
12:52
sea level rise
12:54
which will be
12:56
the probably the most important event
12:58
that will affect West Falmouth and all
13:00
of the town over the next 50 100 years
13:04
so I’m reporting on what the town
13:07
is doing
13:08
to make us resilient to sea level rise
13:11
which will require a huge effort on the
13:13
part of everyone
13:15
for sure and so
13:17
a generation or two from now people will
13:19
look back on what we did
13:21
uh
13:22
to to understand uh
13:25
and to deal with sea level rise and and
13:28
that will be
13:29
that is an important part of what
13:31
Falmouth will look like a generation in
13:34
the library
13:35
not only West Falmouth but the others
13:38
are a key place where
13:40
what we are facing can be communicated
13:42
to the public effectively
13:45
you know that that's a really good point
13:46
because
#sealevelrise
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today
13:50
it seems is sometimes
13:53
scientific fact
13:54
is even debated but libraries continue
13:57
to be a place where there is
14:00
some ability to to have discussion about
14:04
public policy and facts and to share
14:06
those in a in a neutral uh educational
14:10
environment right
14:12
and where
14:13
people actually interact rather than
14:16
individually looking at the information
14:18
and making decisions
14:20
without the context of discussion right
14:24
and that's so that goes back to your
14:25
original point about the value of a
14:27
library as a gathering place because uh
14:30
rather than it's a place where people
14:31
can come and rather than speaking at
14:33
each other can speak with each other yes
14:37
yeah the idea of libraries as a
14:40
quiet place is somewhat passé right and
14:43
importantly so right yeah
14:46
uh so
14:47
are there any other either historical or
14:50
interesting facts about the West
14:51
Falmouth Library you'd like to share
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14:53
with our viewers
14:57
I think its role as with discussion
15:00
implies is central
15:02
to the community
15:04
a community to be in a
15:06
a thriving community needs a sense of
15:09
place
15:10
which is created by its history and
15:13
interactions but also by key physical
15:16
places
15:17
and
15:18
the West Falmouth Library is central
15:21
to that place called West Falmouth it's
15:24
an interestingly enough
15:28
in this series we also had someone from
15:29
the Woods Hole Library
15:32
which has a similar rich history as a
15:35
partially privately funded but publicly
15:38
accessible library makes me I think of
15:41
the point
15:42
Falmouth more than many communities
15:45
has distinct villages each with their
15:47
own identity and each with their own
15:49
history and and so
15:52
it's important that the West Falmouth
15:55
library not only catalogued the history
15:57
of the Falmouth community
#woodsholepubliclibrary
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but what's unique uh and special about
16:01
West Falmouth itself yes
16:04
uh
16:05
it it is very much West Falmouth but as
16:07
I said earlier too it also serves and
16:10
draws people from throughout the town
16:12
I myself
16:14
have always lived in North Falmouth
16:16
but found the library a very important
16:19
cultural
16:21
center so became involved
16:24
and as by doing that became much more
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familiar with West Falmouth
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as well as
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other parts of Falmouth
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and that's so important because we are
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at the end of the day we are one
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Falmouth in one one community absolutely
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well Charlie thank you so very much for
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sharing some time with us and a little
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bit of the history of both that
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beautiful historic building that's been
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lovingly restored and modernized but
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also of the history of the library
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organization itself and we wish you many
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many more decades of success
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thank you Troy
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Transcript of Charles McCaffrey's Oral History on West Falmouth Library
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