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By Patriot Staff TJI(g>barnstablepatriot To all of our regular cross- wordpuzzle addicts,we apol- ogizefor last week'somission. On page B:5 you willfind two puzzles this week, which we hope will take the edge off. We also included the correct answer for the puzzle of three weeks ago. Our apologies.... Get a degree in international relations Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Cape Cod CommunityCollegeduringits sixthannualMulticulturalFes- tivalof Cape Cod.Flags,food, and festive footwork celebrate the rainbowof cultures on the Cape -and it'sallfree.... Last week's story on energy con- servation efforts mentioned plans to create a citizens advisory board to work with the town's Green Team, but did not stress that members fromthe businesscommunity are being sought specifically along with other residents. If you're interested, send an e-mail to Susan Buchan at sagearchitect@msn.com.... Congratulations to Patricia McArdle, winner of our Sand- wichTownBookcontest....We hear that former BHS choral director Ned Rosenblatt is now music department chair at Booker (Performing Arts) HighSchool in Sarasota,Fla., where he's continuing the winning ways he displayed here. Rosenblatt's vocal jazz ensemblethere wonfirst place in the annual Berklee jazz festival this year and last.... More music:Youcan hear the powerful new organ at West Parish in Barnstable during a Lenten series of concerts the next five Wednesday s from noon to noon to 12:30 p.m. Admission is free, but you can make a donation if you'd like.... The "callout" paragraph in the local daily seemed to offer a challenge. "Readout goeshere,"it began, followed by "Do do doleniam ex esequis nos dunt alisi.Ore dit am ilit et voloborem dig- nim."Wasthis another secret leak to the press, perhaps from the Vatican? We asked our resident Latin scholar, who told us it was not Latin, just a bunch of letters strung together to help estimate spaceinlayingout the page.... Weknowit'sinMay,but don't delay: Wellfleet author Marge Piercy will read and sign her booksMay4at 7:30p.m.atthe Cotuit Center for the Arts on Route 28.Tickets are$20 ($25 at the door) . The poet laure- ate of the U.S., Ted Kooser, will give a reading Aug. 1at 7 p.m. in the Tilden Arts Cen- ter of Cape Cod Community College. For tickets, call 508- 420-0200....JohnnyMathishas broken the 60-bucks barrier at Cape Cod Melody Tent. The old smoothie will be in Hyannis Aug. 6 with an or- chestra, commanding a top price of $62.75. Other shows announced recently include an appearance by show-tune supremos Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder (July 27).... Usually, it's the directors who conduct auditions, but the Barnstable Comedy club is turning the tables. The theater group wants to hear from directors who have a show they're dying to direct. Grabyourmegaphone and get in touch with Kerry Sullivan, chairmanof the play selection committee, at 508-833-4334or kerrysul@hotmail.com.... [fvvj 1/4*44 \i\*** S Rectrix liens from contractor dispute, not lack of cash Clarification Last week's story about Rectrix Aerodrome's issues with the Town of Barnstable referenced morethan$400,000 liens placed against the com- pany. According to Rectrix presi- dent and CEORichardCawley those aretheresult ofanongo- ingdisputeregardingthequal- ity of work performed by Lohr Constructioninthe buildingof the $6.5millionfacility.Cawley said that all of the money in question has been placed in an escrow account and will be released when the dispute is resolved. A closer look at the liens on file withtheBarnstableCounty Registry of Deeds shows Rec- trix to be the main defendant in only the $252,000 lien filed by Lohr Construction. The remaining liens are against Lohr byits subcontractors on the project , with Rectrix as a secondary party. CawleysaidthattheHyannis facility, as well as other facili- ties developed by Rectrix,was built with zero debt. 'Old wreck' now seen as a wreck Photos from Hyannis woman tell the tale By David Still II dstill@barnstablepatriot.com PHOTO COURTESY PRISCILLA STONE HOUSTON IT'S A SHIP- A picture isworth a thousandwords, especiallywhen no words previouslyexisted. This photograph of "the oldwreck" provided by Priscilla Stone Houston of Hyannis shows conclusively that the timbers found in December on Craigville Beach were from a ship. The man and woman in the foreground are Houston's parents, circa 1910, and the man atop is her uncle. When Priscilla Stone Houston first saw photo- graphs of large timbers on Craigville Beach in the Pa- triot's Dec. 23 edition, she knew immediately what it was: the old wreck. She also knew that she had photographs of her parents, then "an engaged couple,"sitting atop the wreck from about 1910. But she also figured that no one would be inter- ested. When she read a fol- low-up story relating Centerville native Lau- rence Bearse's recollec- tions of "the old wreck," Houston understood that her photographs could be helpful and wrote to the paper. Her two photographs of the wreck proved quite helpful. Victor Mastone, director of the state's Board of Underwater ArchaeologicalResources, believes the structure is the wreck of a four-mast- ed downeaster. He had been previously unsure whether the remains were that of a ship or a ship- turned wharf. The photos say ship. A great portion of the wreck was dynamited and removed in late 1930. "What we're finding on the beach is probably the awash sections in the pic- tures -my guess is some sort of bilge keelsons or ceiling. All fairly heavy built stuff," Mastone wrote in an e-mail this week. How'd It Get There? But Houston, now 89, and her older brother, Rear Admiral Frank Bradford Stone (retired), matched recollections of what they'd been told and theirs is a different story than the one told to Bearse. According to Houston, the wreck was perhaps a barge or scow that broke free and came ashore during a storm. The Stones summered in Craigville, owning prop- erty in the cottage colony, according to Houston. Her brother worked as a lifeguard on that same beach. Although they were told as children not to go near the wreck, her brother 's leg still bears a scar from it, Houston said. The story related to Bearse by his parents was that the Centerville beach was not the first location for the wreck. It was his understanding that the ship had wrecked else- where, Martha's Vineyard perhaps, and was relo- cated to Centerville after another large storm. Possibilities With a little more work, the Patriot came up with a possible ship for the wreck, but this remains speculative. After the massive 1938 hurricane, the Patriot talked with some "old timers" of the day who recalled a similarly severe storm in August 1879. As recalled then, five large schooners and many smaller craft were beached on the rocks at Hyannisport. With the help of Patriot contributor and Cape his- torian Jim Coogan, wrecks from the large hurricane that swept the eastern United States on Aug. 18, 1879 were researched. The Patriot from Sept. 9, 1879 told of an auction of one of those ships, the George W. Whistler , likely named after the American engineer who helped build Russia's rail system. He was also the husband of "Whistler's Mother" and father of artist James MacNeil Whistler. Four of the boats were pulled off the beach, but the George W. Whistler was so badly damaged that it was auctioned for $300, stripped of all that was valuable, and left to decay on the beach. 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