Spritsail is the bi-annual journal of the history of Falmouth and vicinity published by the Woods Hole
Historical Collection. We have limited numbers of extra copies of individual issues that can be purchased
through our Gift Shop for $7 per issue. To order issues,
please print out our Order Form. |
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Issues from 2010 - 2019 | Issues from 2000 - 2009 | Issues from 1990 - 1999 | Issues from 1987 - 1989 |
1999 | |
Volume 13, Number 2: Summer 1999 Contents: The Greeks Add Flavor to Falmouth --Barbara Kanellopoulos Summers in Falmouth --Anne Swift Sawyer Poetry: Four Lullabies --Eric Edwards From the Archivists --Jennifer Stone Gaines Letters --Re: New England Views |
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Volume 13, Number 1: Winter 1999 Contents: Privateering in Vineyard Sound In the Revolutionary War --William T. Munson Tarapaulin Cove (poem) --Herman Ward Joseph's Boats --Karen Allen The Woods Hole Time Ball --Townsend Horner From the Archivists: Weathervanes --Jennifer Stone Gaines |
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1998 | |
Volume 12, Number 2: Summer 1998 Contents: Falmouth's Historic Pumping Station --Matthew A. Kierstead Running Water --Judith G. Stetson Why Woods Hole? --James Watt Mavor, Jr. Letter --Re: St. Anthony's Church |
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Volume 12, Number 1: Winter 1998 Contents: The Emerald Family of East Falmouth --Richard Kendall Swift Family Whaling --E. Kent Swift, Jr. Celebration Poem for the Bicentennial of the East End Meeting House, Now Falmouth's Synagogue --Eric H. Edwards. Letters --Re: Atlantis and other Summer, 1997 articles |
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1997 | |
Volume 11, Number 2: Summer 1997 Tenth Anniversary Issue Contents: From the Editor Before the Mast in the Ketch Atlantis --William B. Cooper Letters --Re: A Quissett Summer Romance, Vol. 11, No. 1 |
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Volume 11, Number 1: Winter 1997 Contents: A Quissett Summer Romance --Thomas Cushman Morse --Sidebar: Trotting Park Ring Out in Honor of Brave Paul Revere --Karen Allen Poem Two Centuries --Edith Austin Holton From the Archivists --MassachusettsMaritime Academy: The Ship Sloop Falmouth by Fred Turkington Letters --Re Winter 1996 Issue: Church of the Messiah from Rev. Edgar Lockwood |
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1996 | |
Volume 10, Number 2: Summer 1996 Contents: The Centennial History of the Woods Hole Yacht Club --John Valois Early Days of Racing in Woods Hole --Browne Littell Two Master Racers in Woods Hole Prince Crowell and His Imp --Judith G. Stetson Sam Cahoon and His Mae Win --John Valois Sailing (poem) --Gordon Todd From the Editors |
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Volume 10, Number 1: Winter 1996 Contents: Art and Architecture of the Church of the Messiah --Sally Loessel The Stone Church of The Messiah in Woods Hole --William O. Burwell Reading History in Falmouth's Old Burying Ground --Ann Sears Letters --Re: Vol. 10, No. 1 -- Curtain Rising; Quissett Harbor House; Redwood Wright View from the Curator's Window --Jennifer Stone Gaines |
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1995 | |
Volume 9, Number 2: Summer 1995 Contents: From the Editorial Board Curtain Rising: Theatre in Falmouth Over the Past Seventy Years --DeWitt C. Jones III Hurricane Wedding --Marjorie Moore Kim at Menemsha Prose/Poem --David Bradley From the Archivists From the Archivists Woods Hole Collection by Susan Fletcher Witzell |
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Volume 9, Number 1: Winter 1995 Contents: The War Years in Falmouth --Frederick T. Turkington Life in Woods Hole Village During World War II --SusanFletcher Witzell Letters --Re: Vol. 8, No. 2 -- Woods Hole Post Office |
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1994 | |
Volume 8, Number 2: Summer 1994 Contents: Sailing Ships, Science and Stonework: The Stuff One Dream Was Made Of --Lucy Coan Helfrich Woods Hole Buys Its Post Office --Judith C. Stetson Letters --Re: Vol. 8, No. 1 -- Lotawana Nims |
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Volume 8, Number 1: Winter 1994 THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT Contents: The American Gardens of Lotawana Nims --Judith Lang Day 200 Years of a Quissett Family --Susan Fletcher Witzell Letters --Re: Vol. 7, No. 2 -- House Music; Mail Service |
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1993 | |
Volume 7, Number 2: Summer 1993 Contents: House Music at the Fuglisters and How It Influenced Music Making in Woods Hole Since 1942 --William Simmons & Cecelia Bowerman Fuglister At the Station --Patricia Sylvia Burke From the Archivists Katharine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful Centennial Celebration --Robert H. Bidwell Letters Mail and the Island Steamers by Douglas N. Clark America the Beautiful, Words and Music Errata from Vol. 7, No. 1: "Fire Fighting in Falmouth" and "Reconstruction of Wheelwright House" |
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Volume 7, Number 1: Winter 1993 Contents: Fire Fighting in Falmouth Early Times Through 1947 --Gordon F. Todd Reconstruction of Wheelwright House Church Street, Woods Hole --Dr. Charles U. Lowe Letters --Church Street, Woods Hole; 1992 Summer Cover |
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1992 | |
Volume 6, Number 2: Summer 1992 Contents: The Angelus Bell Tower and Mary Garden in Woods Hole --Jane A. McLaughlin Mary Dodd Craig Showed Falmouth Women the Way --Edgar Henry Craig and Mollie Craig Rice Falmouth Women Elected to Town Offices School Board Minutes -- Frederick T. Turkington On the Cape --Eva March Tappan Letters --Turnstiles |
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Volume 6, Number 1: Winter 1992 THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT Contents: The Development of Falmouth as a Summer Resort 1850-1900 --Candace Jenkins Letters Turnstiles in Falmouth--Clarence J. Anderson |
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1991 | |
Volume 5, Number 2: Summer 1991 THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT Contents: Generations of Success from a Ten Dollar Bill --Kathy Sharp Frisbee Some of the History and Flavor of the Quissett Harbor House Hotel --Virginia Francis Boyhood Years at the Quissett Harbor House in the 1920's --John E. Sawyer Conversations With Him [Walter C. Janney] --Wistar Janney From the Archivists Woods Hole Historical Collection [Thomas D. Fish] --Jennifer Stone Gaines |
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Volume 5, Number 1: Winter 1991 Contents: From the Editorial Board "More Dead Than Alive" Experiences of a Falmouth Boy in Rebel Prisons --Frederick T. Turkington Civil War Poem --Warren L. Chadwick From the Archivists Falmouth Historical Society: Journals of George S. Jones 1853-1857 --Harriet Quimby Letters --Re: Oliver S. Chute |
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1990 | |
Volume 4, Number 2: Summer 1990 THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT Contents: Dedication: Bruce Chalmers In Memoriam: Sidewheeler Uncatena (poem) --Robert Hillyer From Sail to Steam to Diesel --James P. Warbasse, Jr. Merchant on Main Street --Hollis Lovell Review of Manitou by James W. Mavor, Jr and Byron E. Dix --K. O. Emery From the Archivists The Cuttyhunk Historical Society --Janet Bosworth Letters --Re: Vol 4, No. 1 Airplane House |
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Volume 4, Number 1: Winter 1990 THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT Contents: Falmouth Tricentennial Quilt --Courtesy, Falmouth Historical Commission Falmouth's Village Green --Bonnie L. Hamilton and Bruce Chalmers From Portable to Notable The Story of the Airplane House on Juniper Point and How it Grew --William Gray Purcell From the Archivists Woods Hole Historical Collection --Jennifer Stone Gaines |
Issues from 2010 - 2019 | Issues from 2000 - 2009 | Issues from 1990 - 1999 | Issues from 1987 - 1989 |