Spritsail Volume 38, Number 1: Summer 2024
From the Editors In Tribute: Olivann Hobbie and Beth Ready Liles Memories of Edward Gorey By Leonard Miele Dance as a Woods Hole Tradition From the Archives, with contributions by ...
Antique Nautical Chart Donated to the Museum
The museum was given a generous donation of “A Chart of the Harbor of Wood’s Hole Massachusetts Including Sailing Directions” dated 1857. This original chart is in excellent condition. ...
Mainsheet Fall-Winter 2021
The museum was given a generous donation of “A Chart of the Harbor of Wood’s Hole Massachusetts Includ-ing Sailing Directions” dated 1857. This original chart is in excellent condition. The donor, Linda Kohn, is a member who used to reside in Woods Hole and now lives on the West Coast. She donated it in memory of her husband, Henry I. Kohn. “Thanks for bringing us to Woods Hole - Linda, Annabel and Lars”
January 4, 2022 – Visual Reminders of the Past Acquired in 2021
As the repository of the community’s history, the museum welcomes and encourages donations that are visual reminders of the area’s past. In 2021, we received four donations that showcase Woods ...
Mainsheet Summer 2021
Farewell and thank you to Tom Chilton! After six years of designing, building and installing exhibits for the museum, designer Tom Chilton and his wife Christie have moved to Colorado. ...
Mainsheet Fall-Winter 2020
Remembering Al Lunn Al Lunn, whose expertise and passion for boat building inspired the museum’s boat shop for years, died August 28 at age 91. A lifelong Woods Hole resident, ...
Mainsheet Summer 2020
Judy’s Voyages Aboard Spritsail 1987-2006 The Woods Hole Historical Museum published Spritsail, A Journal of Falmouth History, Vol-ume 1, Number 1, in the summer of 1987. Mary Lou Smith introduced ...
Mainsheet Fall-Winter 2019
From the Archives: HOUSES ON THE UPPER SECTION OF LITTLE HARBOR ROAD Susan Fletcher Witzell Little Harbor Road was formerly called Government Road. From the time the Lighthouse Service was ...