On a recent sultry summer’s day, the vibrant and multi-layered history of the Cape Verdean Islands was explored when Candida Rose Baptista brought her presentation titled, Kabumeramericas, to the Marion Council on Aging. The story of the islands as told through music and Baptista’s research was rich with the emotional longings the Cape Verdean people […] Read more »
Over 70 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the entire Earth. Although now extinct, they once shared the same land with North America’s only marsupial, the opossum. The word opossum comes from the Native American word “apasum”, meaning white-faced animal. About the size of a full-grown cat, the opossum is even more adept at tree climbing. […] Read more »
Now seven years strong, the Tri-Town National Night Out is one of the highlights of the summer. Since 2013, the fire, police, and EMS departments of Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester have come together on the grounds of Old Rochester Regional to connect with the people of the communities they serve and offer them the chance […] Read more »
Drum circles have been a social and cultural form of communication and expression almost since the beginning of humankind. It can be theorized that the beating of the human heart once discovered by homosapiens inspired them to replicate that rhythmic sound. We’ll never know for sure when, where, or how drums and their verb ‘drumming’ […] Read more »
Back in the day – my day that is – the most important thing about summer was getting a summer job. My parents were the children of subsistence fishermen, day laborers, shop owners, foragers; that is to say, people who worked hard to scrape together enough resources to survive. A work ethic deeply engrained by […] Read more »
On July 30 the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) held a hearing at which time the public was asked to give comment on the 25-percent design for a bike path that could one day link Marion to Mattapoisett and Wareham. Phase One, which was the topic of this hearing, would travel from the town line […] Read more »
When it comes to good old-fashioned fun, nothing beats the setting of the middle of Main Street during the First Congregational Church of Marion’s Annual Super Duper Fun Fair. The event brings life and color to the village of Marion every year with its flower sale, colorful spines of the books stacked for the book […] Read more »
There is probably no one better suited and able to discuss the history of Mattapoisett than Seth Mendell, a local historian who has deep family roots in the community. Consider also that Mendell’s father Charles was an early member of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, AKA the Whaling Museum, and a founding member of the […] Read more »
We at The Wanderer were blown away by the number of submissions we received this year with the Tri-Town’s nominees for the 2019 Keel Award. We made the call and, boy, did you answer! The Wanderer created the Keel Award 25 years ago in 1994 and since then has recognized one (and, on rare occasions, two) dedicated person […] Read more »
The sparkling, flashing nightlight glow of the fireflies now illuminates the midsummer meadows of our backyards. Although it is also most often referred to as the ‘lighting bug’, it is actually a beetle that lives in the ground and only comes out at dusk. Then we can watch it perform a mating dance by ‘talking’ […] Read more »