It’s one of the highlights of the year for Marion’s Cub Scouts Pack 32. Well, every other year, that is. The Biennial Soap Box Derby is an exciting event when kids ages 6 to 11 get to rev up their imaginations and design their winning soap box cart. This year may have been a little […] Read more »
This weekend was the first of two fall drama productions, Human Geometry. Written by Tabor Academy English and drama teacher Mark Howland, the original comedy “blurs the lines of gender roles” and explores the way mathematical concepts can be used to define friendships and romantic relationships. Howland has written seven drama productions for Tabor Academy, […] Read more »
A full house at Old Hammondtown School celebrated Mattapoisett veterans and all veterans on November 11, and with hundreds in attendance it was possibly the largest turnout ever for the annual event. Photos by Jean Perry Read more »
November 11 is a significant date in history – for the United States and for the world. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, “the war to end all wars” was officially over when the armistice between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect. We now annually […] Read more »
Once upon a time, there were two holidays and one festival whose names evoked joy. The holidays were Thanksgiving and Christmas. The festival that preceded them was known as Halloween. Then a frighteningly terrible thing happened – the power of mass marketing coupled with the retail engines of commerce blended them all together. Now we […] Read more »
Two former Mattapoisett men who made quarter-mile drag racing history in the 1960s brought home the California gold in 2015. In October of 1958, David Vermilya from Atkinson Way and two of his friends headed toward Southern California stuffed in a 1932 Ford pickup truck. Vermilya owned a 1934 Chevy powered Ford convertible, but opted […] Read more »
In 1851, an English noblewoman wrote home to say, “I have been invited to visit New Bedford … it is said to be the ‘City of Palaces,’ from the beautiful buildings it contains.” New Bedford was once the jewel of Massachusetts, called by some the “City of Light.” It is this glimmering history that author […] Read more »
Here they are … the last two stories in our 2015 Halloween Story Contest. To continue the suspense just a little further, we won’t tell you who won until after these stories, where we also list all of the authors. Thank you to everyone who entered! The Wanderer will also hold a special Facebook Halloween […] Read more »
The following article is comprised of information gathered from past issues of The Wanderer, Presto Press from the Mattapoisett Historical Society archives, scrapbook collections at the Mattapoisett Historical Society, and from interviews with Jodi Bauer at the Mattapoisett Clipper, Richard Morgado (son of Al Morgado), and Captain Anthony Days of the Mattapoisett Police Department. […] Read more »
Boo! (Or is it boo-hoo?) It’s almost the end of October! Has Halloween snuck up on you and your family, too? If so, here is a last minute guide to all things Halloween happening in Tri-Town so you can start celebrating in spooky style most expediently. As soon as Saturday, October 24, the Annual Plumb […] Read more »