Mainsheet— Summer 2023
The summer of 2023 is fast approaching! Staff and volunteers of the Woods Hole Historical Museum have been working throughout the winter and early spring to create exciting and informative ...
Mainsheet Summer 2022
While we may still have to navigate aspects of the pandemic, we are planning several in-person events for the summer. In early June, the museum and library are co-hosting a ...
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”
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 ...
Mainsheet Spring 2019
BALDWIN COOLIDGE (1845 – 1928) Baldwin Coolidge, whose work is featured in the exhibit in Gallery Two this summer, was born in Woburn and later lived with his parents in ...
Mainsheet Winter 2018
From the Archives: Fences of Woods Hole by Susan Fletcher Witzell There has been a great deal of discussion in Woods Hole recently as to what is the proper historical ...
Mainsheet Spring-Summer 2018
Message from the Director Summer! I’m looking forward to sunshine and warm weather but I am also happy to report that Bradley House now has central air conditioning. We will ...