Featured Mainsheet Articles
Our Mainsheet newsletter, produced biannually, provides Museum news and updates and includes story and photo highlights from our collection. Below is a list of featured articles from previous issues of the Mainsheet. For full PDFs of published issues, click here.
WMVY’s Interview with WHHM Executive Director Deborah Scanlon
August 21st, 2022 - MVYRADIO Reporter Joe Stickles interviews Deborah Scanlon from the Woods Hole Museum. Listen to interview here.
Dorothy I. Crossley Photograph Collection
Dottie Crossley, by Richard S. Taylor In January 2022, the museum received an extensive collection of photographs from longtime summer Woods Hole resident, Dorothy (Dottie) Crossley, who passed ...
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 ...
