You don’t have to have a particularly keen eye to notice the simple stone pillar by the side of the road on Water Street. Affixed to the top is a plaque that reads: “Starting Line. In memory of the race founder Robert ‘Bob’ Gardner.” On July 4, 1971, a group of 15 boys and […] Read more »
Gail Roberts stood at the Plumb Library circulation desk wearing a sparkly sash that read “Retired and Fabulous.” The occasion was, of course, her final farewell to a job she had held with distinction for the last 15 years as director of the Joseph H. Plumb Public Library in Rochester center. During those uncertain […] Read more »
The Great Blue Heron wading in shallow shoreline waters makes a lasting impression on every bird watcher. The skulking Heron cautiously takes one step at a time with head and neck drawn back in a serpentine shape, ready to spring forward to spear and retrieve an innocent target in the flash of a single […] Read more »
An evening spent imaging how English women shaped and informed the development of gardens and gardening was enjoyed on June 17 when Marion Mako spoke at the Marion Music Hall. Mako was hosted by the Sippican Historical Society and the Marion Garden Group where she took the full house on a centuries-long romp through English […] Read more »
On June 15, the Rochester Historical Society hosted retired educator and founding member of the Friends of the Middleborough Cemeteries Jeff Stevens, who has become something of a local expert on the topic of early American gravestone iconography. His talk was aptly titled The Story of Stones. Stevens started his talk at the very […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Museum fits a lot about local history in its small, former-church space on Church Street. On June 15, the museum expanded that education with a detailed Zoom presentation on the early roots of American baseball. Historian and “The Folklorist” television show host John Horrigan revealed that the Northeast and New England […] Read more »
On an absolutely splendid mid-June morning, members of the Mattapoisett Land Trust, along with members of the community that proudly acknowledge being senior citizens, met at the site of a former pig farm off Bowman Road to not only walk the site but to learn more about land-trust trails. Speaking on behalf of the […] Read more »
Watching over 70 restless sixth graders on the precipice of their final week in their school, six Mattapoisett Land Trust volunteers and several more chaperones representing Old Hammondtown Elementary School knew exactly what they were getting themselves into while embarking on a June 16 day trip to Cuttyhunk. A local newspaper editor over […] Read more »
On June 11, the Mattapoisett Museum hosted a presentation by two of the Fairhaven Village Militia, who gave youngsters a peek at the lives of children during the colonial era, starting with the clothing. Lori Richards portrayed a middle-class homemaker, while Skip Faulkner represented her male counterpart. Richards began by describing the clothing […] Read more »
The MIAA’s decision not to hold an individual tennis tournament this year weighs more heavily on Brooklyn Bindas’ supporters than it does on the 16-year-old, high school sophomore. “I don’t mind, I still have two more years that I could try to play,” said Bindas, a Rochester resident who attends Wareham High School […] Read more »