Shipbuilding in Scituate Harbor

Shipbuilding in Scituate Harbor

Today Scituate Harbor is a vibrant part of the town with a broad range of shops, restaurants, waterfront activities, entertainment venues, artists, along with residential condominiums and apartments. And, although there are remnants of its past maritime activities,...
I Remember Scituate

I Remember Scituate

(“The enclosed is the best I could do with a ninety-year-old memory.”) We came to Scituate in 1901 as summer residents and we have been associated with town ever since. At that time it was a quiet town, hardly awakened from its colonial sleep. Some of the...
Early Families of Scituate

Early Families of Scituate

The following pages list persons who settled in Scituate beginning in 1633, the date of the Town’s earliest records, together with their occupations, birthplaces and location of lands granted to them in Scituate, if known. Unnamed wives, children and servants are not...
Land of the Men of Kent

Land of the Men of Kent

Last spring I entered the foyer of Oregon’s magnificent state capital. The first of its beautiful historical murals to catch my eye depicted the majestic Columbia River where a band of Siwash Indians were trading furs with a boat’s crew headed by a dominant...
Musings

Musings

The treasures of Scituate are not few and far between; they are close by and at every turn.   A stroll these autumn days with the leaves falling, opening new vistas shrouded in shrubs the past few months, bring back tales long since forgotten. One such experience...