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Capturing Cape Cod History: The Earlier Years An Anthology of Register Articles Edited by Pat Tafra
	$15.00	This 200 page book is a newly published anthology of additional articles printed in the award-winning "Registering History" page of the Yarmouth Register, these written in the 1970s and 80s. The 80-plus articles spotlight intriguing and humorous events, anecdotes and characters from "earlier years" of Cape Cod history. The stories were written by eleven different authors and are enhanced by additional previously-unprinted photographs.
Cape Cod Shore Whaling America’s First Whale men John Braginton-Smith and Duncan Oliver
	$4.00	This 286 page book is the second collaboration for Jack Braginton Smith and Duncan Oliver. Shore whaling kept appearing in their research for their first book, “Port on the Bay” but the authors found that no one had ever thoroughly researched shore whaling on Cape Cod. In fact, there were many authors who overlooked it entirely, or were factually incorrect in what they described. This book is the first to look at the subject in depth. The book is interesting reading as well as an irrefutable new source of genealogical and archaeological authentication for dedicated societies, libraries, clubs and people. Dramatic descriptions are drawn of whalemen and Indians, rowing out to sea, six men in a whaleboat, during the cruelest weather of the year; November until March. During peak times, more than 200 shore whalers were living on Sandy Neck, another 150 at Black Earth (now called Chapin and Mayflower beaches), and another 100 or so at Great Island in Wellfleet. Between1620 and 1750, shore whaling was the major winter industry for men on Cape Cod.

Port on the Bay: Yarmouth’s Maritime History on the “North Sea” 1638 to the Present Duncan Oliver and Jack Braginton-Smith
	$3.00	“Port on the Bay: Yarmouth’s Maritime History on the “North Sea” 1638 to the present.” This book was researched and written by HSOY Trustee Duncan Oliver and popular local historian Jack Braginton-Smith and promises to be a great addition to your local history bookshelf! Was there a wharf at the end of Wharf Lane? Did Homer’s Dock Road lead to Homer’s Dock? Is Gray’s Beach really where it is supposed to be? Where are Cuckold’s Cove and Lone Tree Creek? Find out the answers to these questions and much more fascinating information about Yarmouth’s “Port” in this exciting new book!
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Yarmouth’s Proud Packets Haynes Mahoney
	$3.00 (New 2004 reprint)	Author Haynes Mahoney outlines the origins of packet service, early maritime life in the local community and the coming of packets to Yarmouth. With an eloquent yet casual writing style, Mahoney provides interesting and amusing stories and anecdotes about the captains, the ships, and the social life of the Yarmouth packets operating in the 19th century.
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Riding Around with Father Caroline Siebens
	$1.00 Pamphlet, 42 pages, 1985 Printing. Written c. 1957.	A compilation of three stories: Riding Around with Father, Camp Meeting and Going Cranberry. Author Caroline Siebens, founder of the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth, recounts some of her childhood memories growing up in Yarmouth. Her stories include visiting the sick with her father, who was the local doctor, attending weekly summer services at the Yarmouth Methodist Camp Meeting, and harvesting cranberries, along with many others in the community, in one of the cranberry bogs owned by her father. A warm, personal glimpse of Yarmouth social life during the last days of the 19th century. These three stories are also available as individual pamphlets.
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