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. ...
Cap’n Kidd – Salted Kiss Sundaes and “A Real Bar”
by Susan F. Witzell, Archivist The popular bar and restaurant in Woods Hole known as the Cap’n Kidd originated as an ice cream parlor and confectionary store. Around 1916 ...
Stories from our Oral History Collection of Conversations
Stories from our Oral History Collection of Conversations Ed Jaskun, long-time pharmacist in Woods Hole, bought a three-story building along the Eel Pond Channel (currently the site of ...
Pie in the Sky
by Deborah Griffin Scanlon “Stock up on popovers! Demolition is starting soon!” Social media was abuzz with Pie in the Sky’s rebuilding this winter as the bakery and café, ...
Woods Hole’s First Yachtsman
By John Valois The enchanted Golden Age of yachting during the years of approximately 1880 to 1895 was also a time of enormous proliferation of summer mansions, often called ...
Reminiscences Of A Summer At The Breakwater Hotel, 1960 (Part 1)
By Allan W. Swank “You’re kidding! You’re asking me if I want to go with you to Massachusetts? For the whole summer? I’d be crazy if I said anything ...
Reminiscences Of A Summer At The Breakwater Hotel, 1960 (Part 2)
By Allan W. Swank, 2008 Part 1 of Allan Swank’s Reminiscences appeared in MAINSHEET, Spring 2008. He was 16 years old in 1960 when he came to work with his ...
A Town Called Nobska: a Cautionary Tale?
By Les Garrick 100 years ago some wealthy shore-dwelling summer dudes proposed to divide Falmouth Township into two distinct towns. Their mouthpiece was realtor Horace S. Crowell, the developer ...
The Log Books of Captain Anthony Howes
by Nancy S. Bundy “for we see people almost every day disappointed in their hopes & desires and we are taught to believe it is all for the best.” August 22, ...
Prosperity from Whaling Created New-Style Houses in the 1840s
By Susan F. Witzell, Archivist Eldredge house, c. 1900, Fay Family Collection In 1842 two new homes were built on the main road into Woods Hole village. ...