ll O '1' “ '\ - P.Q ll) SCITUATE, MA. 02056 BULLETIN" F'F;RMlT NO. 23 VOLUME XL111 SCITUATE, MASSACHUSETTS NUMBER 2 - ~ , JANUARY 27, 1990 Throuoh its bulletin, the Fociety attempts to keep alive the history and tradi- tions of ¢ld fcituate. rticles of interest or historic value are always welcome. Send to 121 "anle Street. Fcituate. Massachusetts 02066. ' ' 9 lEQEIE§I.£FEP!§§FE£I i ' do are happy to announce that our first 1990 dinner reetino has been planned. It will take place on Saturday, January 27th at the Harbor "ethodist Church, 55 First Parish Road, Scituate Harbor. A roast turkey dinner with homemade pie of your choice. catered by the ladies of the church. will he served at 6:30 sharp. Reservations are required and the first 200 requests for them, received with check will be honored. PESERVE EPRLY to avoid disanpointnent. Checks should be made payable to the Scituate Historical Society. Peservations will be confirned at the door. ttached you will find a reservation reouest. Detach, fill out and send with check or cash to the Little Red School House to the address shown. Peservations are $7.00 per person. _ EEQQEEE "new EPGLAND'S MOST nvsrsntovs MPPITIME DISASTER" " a '.', . .- , n 0n January 27th rnold Carr and John Fish will present a slide-illustrated talk on researchino and discovering the p§dl€.SIeaP€M?POPt]d0€ which sank on Rovemter 26, 1898 with 160 passengers and crew on hoard. John Fish, a Marine Biologist and Pcean-' ooraphic Engineer. President of Qceanstar Systers, Director of Historical Maritime Group of New Enpland, specializes in researchino location of historic ships. This research has taken him to 22 countries.i a#~"’,* =_ =~' <=v ‘ . , . 0, , _, I -' . _. .'- » . '"‘ i .‘e.‘ ,5 ) ' rnnld Carr is Fenior Marine Biologist For State of Massachusetts. President of American Underwater Search a Survey, specializes in locating lost objects on the sea floor. He also is Director of Historical Maritiwe Groups of ew England. 1 2.‘: §___ .? . '0 . 5 "O u t | 5. » if ..-' .' ,1, D _ . 1': . v4 Y.:.- . ~_ . \'\‘. ‘. ' ' e: ' 9._.l'::"“3.:_' . ‘ ‘\ __l__.__';,--Q '.Ill'-. ‘ - . ...‘_....._.‘‘ .L..P..| all?--.4 The Boston - Maine steamer Portland oi the Portland Steam Packet Company was one ol the most luxurious coastwise steamers on the east coast. With accommodations tor over 500 people, she was well appointed and boasted a main saloon almost as long as the vessel herself. The steamer i- at 12 - 14 knots. making the run between Portland and Boston in just over nine hours. From " ‘ ' author's collection ii . 2. T . JUNE MEETING The 73rd annual meeting of the Scituate Historical Society.was held on June 24th 1989 at 2 P.M. at the Little Red School House. The annual reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were read and accepted. The following.Officers and Trustees elected: Mrs. Laidlaw, President, John Nelson and John Thomas, Vice Presidents, Ms. Elizabeth Foster, Secretary, Mr. Kenneth Torrey, Treasurer, Mr. Jarvis Freymann, Corresponding Secretary. Trustees: Samuel Tilden-and Philip Heeks for 3 years. Our program was an illustrated lecture about the "Spirit of Massachusetts." Henry Dormitzer from Cohasset was our speaker. He told us many interesting stories about how it is used as a training vessel. The Spirit of Massachusetts came to Scituate'on August 6th. NFcTING ' - 73rd ANNIVERSARY .. The 73rd Anniversary meeting of the Scituate Historical Society was held on Saturday, Oct 14 at 2:00 P.M. at the Little Red School House on Cudworth Road. Our program was titled, "Boston by Slide." Our Guide was Anne Smith. This 80 minute slide lecture traced the history of Boston's architecture from 1630 to the present. It was a most interesting program to all who attended. ghggs, LAIDLAH REPORTS: . This last year of the 80's has been a busy and interesting one. The seven historical buildings under our administration are in very good condition, but like. all old wooden buildings, they need constant repair. This fall we restored the stairs in the Lighthouse Tower. we did an extensive and complete restoration. we will need to roof the Light Keeper cottage this year. we have a revolving fund called the Lighthouse Gift Fund, and that takes care of the repairs to the Lighthouse. It is self supporting unless we have heavy damage from a bad storm. He painted the Little Red School House, our Headquarters. The front section of the Cudworth House was reroofed. we will paint the trim on the Cudworth House this spring: The coffer dam across the street from the Stockbridge Mill was completely rebuilt by Robert . Dorr and he donated the metal gate. The following historical building belong to the Historical Society and no town money is used to maintain them. The Old Oaken Bucket Homestead, the Little Red School House, the Stockbridge Mill and the Cudworth Barn. Joan Nelson, our membership chairman, reports 750 members. Quite a few members have taken out life memberships» If you haventt paid your dues, we hope you will. Me don't want to lose you! - R we have sold 430 books and SO maps on Scituate's History this year. This shows a very active interest by all the people who live here and come from all over this country seeking information. The following list is what is available and how many we have sold of each book. Me keep the price of our books down because we are not trying-to make money. He cover the cost of printing and a little more so we can reprint. He are in the business of getting as much information about Scituate History into the hands of as many people as possible. 1 - Adams Strawberry Point 6 - Bailey Tell Us a Story, Jack 12 - Briggs Shipbuilding on the North River 16 - Bonney My Scituate 56 - Bonney ' Brushy Hill 2 - Burrows Cannon Balls and Cranberries 1 - Burrows Yankee Scrimshandlers 36 - Deane History of Scituate 54 - DAR Old Scituate 21 - Hunnewell The Glades 2 - Krusell Plymouth County: 1685 T 1 — Merritt South Scituate - Norwell T . 25 - Murphy »Irish Mossers 11 - Murphy Scituate: Coming of Age of a Plymouth Colony Town ‘ 6 S Murphy Scituate's Heritage 59 - Valdespino Timothy Hatherly 4 - Cross Captain Gray 5 - Cross Captain Gray - juvenile . Me - 15 - Mills . wait for 3 - Hallaren Prehistoric Indicators from Southeastern Massachusetts £!l1Z§.Q£ l§.!££B ~ - 3- The Scituate Chamber of Commerce selected John and Sally Thomas as citizens of the year of 1989. He congratulate them and it is an honor they both deserve because of the many hours they have given to the Town of Scituate and the Historical Society as a Vice President. Also in the Little Red School House they built the library with the beautiful library table and-the podium in our meeting room, and they are always there when we need them. K - LlllLE.EEQ.§£QQL.QH§E At the Little Red School House our headouarters and our research library and exhibit area, we have had a most interesting and active year. He are open Mon - Sat 10-4 all year. This is possible because we have the most wonderful staff of volunteers who are ready to help anyone who comes for genealogical or historical research. Ve,have had over 1,500 people come to the Little Red School House from 38 states and 7 foreign countries._ We had 5D.genealogies when we brouoht our books over from the Cudworth House, and now we have over 100 genealogies of our early families. we have received the following gifts this year. GIFTS iven by: Herbert A. Frye 2 blue souvenir plates water color of “Haying Time" Mrs. Robert Perrigo Dil painting of Scituate Sunset By Halter Sargent Roger Kent 12 wooden chairs 26 plastic chairs Elizabeth Mann Lang Wedding dress worn by their grandmother Helen Mann Voorhis A Dorcas Ella Riggs .0 Charlotte Parsons PhotonvaphicQ record of 1989 Lighthouse Park Construction project .- ' Leo Martin Frame photo of Scituate American Legion Post 144 Band Ruth Kelly Postcard of the 4 corners - Egypt, MA Benjamin Turner Spyglass and Tankard_from the pilot boat Columbia sooxs B n - iven by: Kathleen Laidlaw Reader's Digest .Illus. & Encyclopedic Dictionary Halevi, Marcus Spirit of Massachusetts Pobert Meteyard Metoyard. Thomas Paintings & watercolors‘ Esther Nowell Bailey, Henry Turner Yankee Notions Hilda Stenbeck Lunt, George . Poems Sandra Robbins. Keith, Elmer Notes on Early Conn. Architecture Evelyn weeks Thomas & Deborah Poole Hersey & . 3 generations of their descendant Joseph Lebherz Wrecks of New England Books purchased for the Library: . church, Thomas History of Philips Par Rohrbach, Lewis Boston Taxpapers in 1921 _ t Stark, James H. .Loyalists-of Massachusetts P‘ _ - Taylor, Richard Churches of Christ of the Congregational Hay l New England pond, Ralph V. Plymouth County Pass Probate Index 4. "GLnpY"_ -1 .. We were most excited to have the Mann.Farmhouse picked by the Tri-Star Pictures for the location of the prologue to the yery important movie, "Glory" which is an historical movie about the Civil Mar. It will be in all the theaters starting January 12th, 1990. ~ . SUMMER ENQ CHRISTMAS TOURS - A were well attended and We had our usual 5 tours to our 7 historic sites and they Dec 9 & IO, 1-4 PM. the people who came were most interested. We had a Christmas tour on He had open and decorated for Christmas by the Garden Club the Scituate Lighthouse, the Old Oaken Bucket Homestead and the Little Red School Houses, where we had a beautiful Christmas tree decorated by the children from the Hatherly School who came Re- Saturday Dec 9th, and sang carols and on Sunday we had the Rulon Bell Ringers.