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Wicked Local Atwood Museum CHATHAM The Atwood Museum, home of the Chatham Historical Society, will reopen for the 2021 season on May 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum will be open Fridays and Saturdays in May and open Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning on June 1 through Columbus Day Weekend. All exhibits from 2020 will remain on view (with some new additions) for the 2021 season including: “Turning Point,” commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower and the stories of the early European settlers and the Native Americans, “Remembering our Heroes,” which honors the men and women who served in WWII, and the newly built wetu, a Wampanoag dwelling, on our grounds. ....
Chatham Historical Societies present ‘Mills of the Passaic’ online Updated 6:48 AM; The Chatham Historical Society (CHS) and the Chatham Township Historical Society (CTHS) invite the public to an online program titled “Mills of the Passaic” on Sunday, April 18 at 2 p.m. Secrets of the history of Chatham recently have been revealed along the banks of the Passaic River. Young archaeologists from Drew University have collected artifacts from the site where George Shepard Page built the Stanley Felt Mill, housing for immigrant workers, and a store stocked with creature comforts from their homelands. Dr. Maria Masucci, professor of Anthropology at Drew University, and her students will share their artifact analysis and historical research for their current exhibit “Life Along the River: Revealing the Impact of Industrialization on Chatham Township 1890–1920.” ....
Martha s Vineyard and Provincetown virtual game nights: 7-10 p.m. Free. Check www.eventbrite.com. The Anne Hutchinson Tour of Provincetown: various times, Bas Relief Park, 106 Bradford St., Provincetown. $15. https://www.eventbrite.com Friday, Feb. 12 Online Yoga for Wise Warriors! With Lees Yunit: 8:30-9:30 a.m. Feb. 12, presented online via Zoom by the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. $15-$75. 508-394-7100, [email protected], cultural-center.org. Free toy glider for visits to Massachusetts Air & Space Museum: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 12-13 and 18, 790 Iyannough Road, Barnstable. Free-$8. 508-827-6300, massairspace.org. Museum celebrating one-year anniversary and noting Paul K. Guillow manufacturing balsa-wood airplanes 95 years ago in Wakefield, a year before Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean. ....
Totty the Englishman Among them was Charles Totty, an Englishman who in 1896 moved to Madison to work on the Twombly estate (now home to Fairleigh Dickinson University). Totty, then 23, eventually opened his own greenhouses, operated a retail store in New York City and sold throughout the region through a mail-order catalog, according to his New York Times obituary. To promote it all, he organized the first of the city’s long-dormant International Flower Shows in 1913. Totty grafted his own specialty Australian chrysanthemums and tea rose hybrids and sold them to Rose City s growers. Among them was Joseph Ruzicka, Coultas’ grandfather. Ruzicka ran a 65,000-plant greenhouse through Madison s most productive years. ....