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Everyone loves the holiday lights on the Village Green, but such Christmas displays weren’t always welcome in Falmouth. The Congregationalists who settled our town treated December 25 as just another

Thanksgiving Day was an oasis in the dull month of November. The Sunday before Thanksgiving, the minister always read a proclamation of the governor, reminding us of what we had

From a memoir by Oliver Franklin Swift (1840-1918)

A traffic bottleneck. That’s what Falmouth’s Main Street had become by 1951, but city planner Sidney Shurcliff thought he had the perfect solution. The town needed a South Main Street,

The year: 1891. The place: Falmouth Heights. The objectives: Rest, quiet, and mental culture, in a campground setting. All these were promised by the Falmouth Summer Institute, organized by Rev.

In 1849, Dr. George Chandler, Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester, wrote to the Overseers of the Poor of Falmouth, requesting that they “remove” Charles M. Davis from

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Rituals Facilitate Life’s Transitions

By Warren L. Chadwick (1833-1890)