San Lyman

Born in Morristown, NJ. Father was headmaster of a boys' boarding school. Had 4 older brothers and younger sister. Father and 2 brothers were in WWII, father did not come home from the war.

Grew up in NYC, went to the Brearley School and then Bryn Mawr College. While at Bryn Mawr met future husband Tommy Lineaweaver. Married and serendipitously drove up to Cape Cod in the fall of 1953. Bought a little house in Quissett and settled there.

Two sons Toby and Timmy Lineaweaver, both live on Woods Hole Road. They are strong, admirable men, caring for their families and me and giving to the community and the world.

In the early '60s I founded The Job Shop with Anne Yentsch. It was a jolly thriving business, on Water Street, current site of WCAI radio station. The Job Shop started out as a secretarial service serving the MBL and WHOI. Then there was a conference held by NASA for Apollo 11, and we managed that, earning enough money to purchase a printing press and typesetting equipment. We typeset books for publishers in Boston and New York. We printed the daily specials for Landfall. We figured out how to solve our customers' problems and it was exciting and challenging and fun. We had 20 employees in summertime and one summer 7 Nobel laureates used our facilities.

Also all the time I have been in Woods Hole I have been a painter. Can you imagine a place better to paint than in Woods Hole? With Edie Bruce I helped strip the floors at the Poor House and she founded the Falmouth Artists Guild. In the beginning I painted while the boys took naps. No easel, canvas on the floor in the basement. I had to stop painting to be a breadwinner for a while but came back to it when my third husband took naps. What a relief!

Two other activites: first is tennis. Was singles champ at the Woods Hole Golf Club way back when and played in the ladies doubles with Joan Wheeler, but we were always the bridesmaids. Now, to great delight, play paddle tennis as well. Second is acting. Was in the Penzance Players and have been in the Woods Hole Follies and have given a monologue about my mother for the Woods Hole Woman's Club. Such a ham.

I live in West Falmouth. It seems far away from Woods Hole. But I still paint in the basement and now I have an easel.

So a huge part of me is Woods Hole. I consider myself lucky to have known so many extraordinary people. Where else in the world could you find scientists, painters, musicians, writers, all mingling and exchanging ideas?

I walk down Water Street and feel this is my street and it is like no other street in the world.