Mary L. Goldman

I was born in New Orleans, LA. In 1950 my mother, Lucy Lemann, decided she wanted to be away from New Orleans in the summer. She knew Woods Hole because she had come once as a student of Dr. Osterhout’s at Radcliff and also she chose it because my roommate from the Cambridge School of Weston, Ursula Miskolsky Rowan Szent-Gyorgyi, lived here. Of course now a large contingent who went to Cambridge School -- Julie Swope Child, Nicky Swope and Bruce Beal -- are here too.

Besides raising three children, Jonathan (who lives in Woods Hole), Benjamin and Adam, I have done a variety of things over the years: I ran a co-op nursery school, coordinated a lead poisoning prevention program, supervised intern teachers, and was a Democratic “ward boss” for years in Philadelphia.

The Woods Hole 4th of July parades are such a hoot and so embody the spirit of this village.

Year after year the beauty of the water, sunsets, sunrises, and storms, are continually new, exciting and mesmerizing.