SPRITSAIL
Spritsail is the bi-annual journal of the history of Falmouth and vicinity published by the Woods Hole Historical Collection. We have limited numbers of extra copies of individual issues that can be purchased through our Gift Shop for $7 per issue.

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Issues from 2000 - 2007 Issues from 1990 - 1999 (scroll down) Issues from 1987 - 1989
1999
Volume 13, Number 2: Summer 1999

Partial Contents:
The Greeks Add Flavor to Falmouth
   --Barbara Kanellopoulos
Summers in Falmouth
   --Anne Swift Sawyer
Poetry: Four Lullabies
   --Eric Edwards
Vol. 13, Nol. 2
Volume 13, Number 1: Winter 1999

Partial Contents:
Privateering inVineyard Sound In the Revolutionary War
   --William T. Munson
Tarapaulin Cove (poem)
   --Herman Ward
Joseph's Boats
   --Karen Allen
The Woods Hole Time Ball
   --Townsend Horner
Vol. 13, No. 1
1998
Volume 12, Number 2: Summer 1998

Partial Contents:
Falmouth's Historic Pumping Station
   --Matthew A. Kierstead
Running Water
   --Judith G. Stetson
Why Woods Hole?
   --James Watt Mavor, Jr.
Vol. 12, No. 2
Volume 12, Number 1: Winter 1998

Partial Contents:
The Emerald Family of East Falmouth
   --Richard Kendall
Swift Family Whaling
   --E. Kent Swift, Jr.
Vol. 12, No. 1
1997
Volume 11, Number 2: Summer 1997

Tenth Anniversary Issue
Partial Contents:
Before the Mast in the Ketch Atlantis
   --William B. Cooper
Vol. 11, No. 2
Volume 11, Number 1: Winter 1997

Partial Contents:
A Quissett Summer Romance
   --Thomas Cushman Morse
Ring Out in Honor of Brave Paul Revere
   --Karen Allen
Poem Two Centuries
   --Edith Austin Holton
Vol. 11, No. 1
1996
Volume 10, Number 2: Summer 1996

Partial Contents:
The Centennial History of the Woods Hole Yacht Club
   --John Valois
Early Days of Racing in Woods Hole
   --Browne Littell
Two Master Racers in Woods Hole
Prince Crowell and His Imp
   --Judith G. Stetson
Sam Cahoon and His Mae Win
   --John Valois
Vol. 10, No. 2
Volume 10, Number 1: Winter 1996

Partial Contents:
Art and Architecture of the Church of the Messiah
   --Sally Loessel
The Stone Church of The Messiah in Woods Hole
   --William O. Burwell
Reading History in Falmouth's Old Burying Ground
   --Ann Sears
Vol. 10, No. 1
1995
Volume 9, Number 2: Summer 1995

Partial Contents:
Curtain Rising: Theatre in Falmouth Over the Past Seventy Years
   --DeWitt C. Jones III
Hurricane Wedding
   --Marjorie Moore
Kim at Menemsha   Prose/Poem
   --David Bradley
Vol. 9, No. 2
Volume 9, Number 1: Winter 1995

Contents:
The War Years in Falmouth
   --Frederick T. Turkington
Life in Woods Hole Village During World War II
   --SusanFletcher Witzell
Vol. 9, No. 1
1994
Volume 8, Number 2: Summer 1994

Contents:
Sailing Ships, Science and Stonework: The Stuff One Dream Was Made Of
   --Lucy Coan Helfrich
Woods Hole Buys Its Post Office
   --Judith C. Stetson
Vol. 8, No. 2
Volume 8, Number 1: Winter 1994

THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT

Contents:
The American Gardens of Lotawana Nims
   --Judith Lang Day
200 Years of a Quissett Family
   --Susan Fletcher Witzell
Vol. 8, No. 1
1993
Volume 7, Number 2: Summer 1993

Partial Contents:
House Music at the Fuglisters and How It Has
Influenced Music Making in Woods Hole Since 1942
   --William Simmons & Cecelia Bowerman Fuglister
At the Station
   --Patricia Sylvia Burke
Vol. 7, No. 2
Volume 7, Number 1: Winter 1993

Partial Contents:
Fire Fighting in Falmouth Early Times Through 1947
   --Gordon F. Todd
Reconstruction of Wheelwright House Church Street, Woods Hole
   --Dr. Charles U. Lowe
Vol. 7, No. 1
1992
Volume 6, Number 2: Summer 1992

Partial Contents:
The Angelus Bell Tower and Mary Garden in Woods Hole
   --Jane A. McLaughlin
Mary Dodd Craig Showed Falmouth Women the Way
   --Edgar Henry Craig and Mollie Craig Rice
Vol. 6, No. 2
Volume 6, Number 1: Winter 1992

Contents:
The Development of Falmouth as a Summer Resort 1850-1900
   --Candace Jenkins
Vol. 6, No. 1
1991
Volume 5, Number 2: Summer 1991

THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT

Partial Contents:
Generations of Success from a Ten Dollar Bill
   --Kathy Sharp Frisbee
Some of the History and Flavor of the Quissett Harbor House Hotel
   --Virginia Francis
Boyhood Years at the Quissett Harbor House in the 1920's
   --John E. Sawyer
Vol. 5, No. 2
Volume 5, Number 1: Winter 1991

Partial Contents:
"More Dead Than Alive"
Experiences of a Falmouth Boy in Rebel Prisons
   --Frederick T. Turkington
Civil War Poem
   --Warren L. Chadwick
Vol. 5, No. 1
1990
Volume 4, Number 2: Summer 1990

THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT

Partial Contents:
In Memoriam: Sidewheeler Uncatena (poem)
   --Robert Hillyer
From Sail to Steam to Diesel
   --James P. Warbasse, Jr.
Merchant on Main Street
   --Hollis Lovell
Vol. 4, No. 2
Volume 4, Number 1: Winter 1990

THIS ISSUE IS OUT OF PRINT

Partial Contents:
From Portable to Notable
The Story of the Airplane House on Juniper Point
and How it Grew
   --William Gray Purcell
Falmouth's Village Green
   --Bonnie L. Hamilton and Bruce Chalmers
Vol. 4, No. 1
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