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FROM BARNSTABLE PATRIOT. MAR. 13. 1986
TEN CENTURY CLUB- Barnstable grad Dan Still (left) poses with Eastern Conn.
State University coach Dan Switchenko. Still recently scored his 1,000th point
at ECSU.
1836
A rumor has reached us, that
within the past week, there has
been perpetrated in this town a
most inhuman and bloody trans-
action, whereby a whole family
consisting of no less than six in-
dividuals,have been cut off inthe
veryprimeoftheir life! Weforbear
at present to mention the name
of the person inculpated who has
held arespectable rankinsociety;
and shall merely state the simple
fact in relation to his murderous
catastrophe, that a lad residing
near the fatal scene accidentally
discovered the unhappy victims,
weltering in their blood and yet
scarcely dead -in the shape of
three pairs of fat ducks.
1866
The richest individual in Mas-
sachusetts is a boy, the son of
the late Joshua Sears, a Boston
merchant who died leaving this
son as his sole heir.His property
wasappraised at about $1,800,000.
The trustees under his will in-
vested the most ofit inreal estate
in Franklin street, the dwelling
houses of.
whichthey demolished
almost entirely, to make room
for the finest blocks of stores in
the city. The investment proved
highlyjudicious:the property has
morethan doubled ontheirhands
and now reaches an aggregate of
over $4,000,000. The lad is being
brought up in the family of Al-
pheas Hardy of Cape Cod.
1896
A mate of the Pollock Rip
Lightship,inspeakingof the four-
master Jonathon Bourne, sunk
at Pollock Rip, says they saw the
ill-fated four-masted schooner,as
she was driven down near them
on Wednesday, on the reefs. It
was only for a moment, but they
saw one terrible wave strike her
bow, and as soon as she was clear
of that she was struck by another
monster wave and at the same
time apparently struck bottom
and seemedto collapse.For amo-
ment they sawsome dark objects,
probably human beings, running
up the mainriggingand then that
too, went down out of sight.So it
seems that all hands must have
perished quickly.
1906
Resemblances,Fogg:Itold Bass
what you said -that he reminded
you of a giraffe because he held
his head so high. Fenderson:
And what did he say? Fogg: He
said you reminded him of an ass.
Fenderson: Because why? Fogg:
Because you are one, he said.
1916
The commandant of the United
States navy yard in Boston, has
given notice of the installation of
a Bellini Tosi Direction Finder at
the United States, Naval Radio
station, North Truro, alongside
Cape Cod Lighthouse. The pur-
pose of the finder is to ascertain
by radio the true bearingof aship
from the station, as well as the
direction of the station from the
ship. The apparatus is still in the
experimental stage and too not
much confidence must not be in
place in the bearings given.
1926
This morning work started on
rebuilding the Purity Restaurant
whichwasdestroyedbyfire aweek
ago. The new building is on land
leased from James Murphy for a
long term of years. Both the new
restaurant and lunch counter will
be fitted with the most sanitary
and modern manner, with white
enamelcounters and whiteporce-
lain stools. Mr. Laviviere started
inbusiness in Hyannis four years
ago with a lunch cart. Last sum-
mer he opened the first Chinese
Restaurant on the Cape and did
a flourishing business. He hopes
to be serving mealsin less than a
month in the new'building.
1936
That President Roosevelt likes
Cape Cod delicacies, made ac-
cordingto Miles Standishrecipes,
is shown by the big order re-
ceived thisweek by the Cape Cod
Farms, Inc., of West Barnstable,
from Mrs. Henrietta Murphy,the
housekeeper at the White House,
for clamcocktails and olives.The
cocktails are -made from fresh
tender clams and the olives are
put in rum and jellies. Each is a
pretty tasty article and among
the best sellers of this concern.
At the present,thelocalcompany
is working both day and night to
fill an order from Boston for the
Jordan Marsh Company of 500
cases of its varied products.
1946
Cape Cod men are not lacking
in appreciation of a well-turned
ankle, and are willing to imple-
ment that appreciation byhelping
the ladies to get into that first
post-war pair of Nylons. At least,
Mrs. Frances Abbott of Buttners
in Hyannis, reports that a sub-
stantial number of inquiries she
receives as to the arrival date of
Nylonsarefrom men.Andthe ages
of the inquirers vary from three to
eighty,judging from appearances.
Our returning GIswhohave been
fighting for AmericanWomanhood
apparently want to see what they
have been fighting for.
1956
Being snowbound Monday was
an adventure of sorts -different
and rather nice. Isolated with
the family - alone in the world,
except for GaryMoore,Peter Lind
Hayes, substituting for Arthur
Godfrey, and some weird char-
acters on soap operas we don't
normally watch at 10 o'clock in
the morning.Watchingthe televi-
sionforecasters trace nation-wide
weather conditionsonthosemaps
gave you the feeling that Mother
Nature had sighted Cape Cod
and Barnstable in particular for
its final (we hope) assault of a
devastatingwinter campaignand
was loosening all weapons in its
arsenal.
1966
Robert Rusher, of Hyannis,
speaking in opposition to a study
plan for Kalmus Park being pre-
sented at the annual Barnstable
Town Meeting this week, warned
that if the people accepted this
first step and took the others in-
volved inthe proposal,Barnstable
would be catering to a hamburg,
black leather jacket and motor-
cycle class instead of permanent
residents.
1976
In policejargon they are known
as B & Es, and to the people in
the town of Barnstable, they are
a growing problem. In 1974 there
were 975 ofthem,andin 1975 1047.
The crime of breaking and enter-
ing in 1976 will probably increase
yet again amongthe town's14,000
dwelling units.Barnstable Police
ChiefNeilNightingaleanddepart-
ment statisticianpatrolman Jerry
Dowling say that most B&Es are
committed by young people in
their teens and twenties. Most
leave valuable non-cash items
alone. They seem to be very
interested in stealing cash, and
this suggeststhat they are mostly
amateurs.
1986
Cape Cod Jazz Society will
present its Third Annual Spring
Concert inthe Cape Cod Commu-
nity college auditorium. Appear-
ing will be the Buddy Tate-Scott
HamiltonAllStarsfeaturing Dave
McKenna and Marie Marcus and
her Dixieland Band.
CONTINUED ON PAGE A:11
EDITORIALSZ
Barnstable figures in
No surprises: Barnstable 's
housingmarketistoughfor those
looking to make ends meet. Two
recent compilations of national
statistics bear that out.
It is Barnstable's status as a
Metropolitan Statistical Area
that gets its name attached to
such things. While the boundar-
ies are the Town of Barnstable,
for number-crunchingexercises,
what happens here is reflective
of at least the entire mid-Cape.
The MSA started life as the
Barnstable YarmouthMSA after
the 1990FederalCensus wastab-
ulated. In recent years,changein
how statisticswere compiled led
to the Barnstable-only view.
With that little piece of history,
news that Barnstable'sproperty
values appeared in two national
price comparisons should be
more than interesting to those
who make their living from real
estate or real estate-related
fields. In the recent edition of
AARPTheMagazine,Barnstable
wasnoted asa"bubble"commu-
nity, with properties overvalued
by some 48 percent.
If that's true, then perhaps
there's hope Barnstable's other
mention will be short-lived, al-
though the ramifications of that
could be frightening.
Moody's, the financial house
whose opinion of a community
determinesitsbond rating,ranks
Barnstablejustoutside itstop 10
least affordable housingmarkets.
This comes as "affordability"
nationally hit a 14-year low.
The merging signals of these
two reports points to some
toughertimesfor thelanded,but
perhaps easier times for those
looking to join that club.
DS II
editor@barnstablepatriot.com
Book a trip for the libraries
Each of Barnstable'sseven village
libraries aretrulythat,villagelibrar-
ies.While they receive support from
an annual grantfrom the town, each
isanindependent non-profit withits
own board of trustees, collections
and budgets.
The libraries have always worked
cooperatively, but as a 2005 report
on the town'slibrarysystempointed
out, an opportunity for joint fund-
raising was being missed. Looking
around for a fun, and hopefully
profitable, foray into cooperative
fund-raising, a trip on Norwegian
Cruise lines out of Boston to Ber-
muda was selected.
While the Sept. 24-Oct. 1 cruise
seems far away,there is an urgency
for this inaugural event. March
15 is the deadline for registration.
The long lead time on tickets is
necessary to secure the cruise at an
affordable price and to provide the
desired benefit for the participat-
ing libraries: $300 per ticket to the
"home" library.
To make the trip a go, 10 cabins
must be reserved. There is no upper
limit on passengers, but the hope of
the organizer was to see 60 or so for
thisfirst outing.Asofthiswriting,the
minimumhadn't been secured.
Kathy Swetish at the Whelden
LibraryinWestBarnstablewillbe go-
ing on the trip, and she's convinced
some of her long-time friends from
farther-flung localestojoin her.She
suggests that as a model for people
to consider.
Beth Butler at the Centerville
Public Library said that the cruise
was seen as a "great way to open
this up."
For those of you contemplating a
fall trip, perhaps this is an oppor-
tunity to quickly and easily tie off
those arrangements, and there may
even be sometax benefits (we're not
accountants,but there'sacharitable
contribution involved).
DS II
editor@barnstablepatriot.corp
Details of the cruise can be found on any of the
village library Web sites.
THE T f VIEW FROM
A STANCE
*• •*- * BY PAUL DUFFY A
Thank your
lucky stars
Of course we want to thank
the Academy, but first we
want to thank all the other
people who made the awards
ceremony the thrilling and
uplifting spectacle we have
come to expect. There are
so many to thank. So many,
many to thank.
Where to start? Shall we
begin by thanking Philip
Seymour Hoffman's mother
for lettinghimwatchN.C.A.A.
basketball games on TV,
or with John Stewart, the
charming master of ceremo-
nies? Let's start with John
Stewart. We want to thank
you, John, for your steadfast
refusal to draw undue at-
tention to yourself by being
funny, showinggood taste,or
appearing to be intelligent.
By looking so bad, you made
the stars look even better.
Thank you,John. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
And yes, we do thank you,
Mrs. Hoffman , for letting
Philip Seymour watch all
those basketbaD games on
TV. Watching hundreds of
college basketball games
undoubtedly made him the
accomplished actor he is
today. At least, that's what
he said when he accepted his
Oscar. So, thank you, Mrs.
Hoffman. Thank you. Thank
you. Thank you.
Thanks to Larry McMurtry
for accepting the award for
best screenplay adapted from
previously published mate-
rial while wearing blue jeans
with a dinner jacket. That
doesn 't mean he adapted
the screenplay while wearing
jeans with a dinner jacket; it
meanshe accepted the award
while wearing jeans with a
dinner jacket. If there is a
point to this, it may be that
even the most successful
of writers can look just as
dumb asthe dumbest among
us. Thanks for looking like
a moron, Larry. Thank you.
Thank you.
Isthere any way to express
our gratitude to the rap art-
istswhogaveusthe unforget-
table "It'sHard Out Here for
a Pimp?" That may or may
not have been the title of this
hip-hop soon-to-be classic,
but it doesn't matter: it got
the Oscar for best movie song
of the year even if nobody
knows what movie it was in
or whether it could really be
called a song. What it was,
for sure, was in your face. So
far,the dudes whoperformed
the song at the awards cer-
emony have not been killed
in a shootout with rival rap-
pers. We thank the would-be
shooters for that. Thank you
so much for not shooting up
the awardsceremony.Thank
you. Thank you.
Thanks also to the song-
writer/singer who performed
her own nominated song
for the movie Crash while a
wrecked car burned on stage
just behind her.It'snot every
day you get to hear a good-
looking and talented woman
sing a song at the scene of
what appeared to be a ter-
rible automobile accident.
Thanks so much for a stun-
ning performance under the
most tryingcircumstances.It
was both brave and refresh-
ing, and we thank you,thank
you, thank you.
Thanks to the ordinarily
funny Ben Stillerfor not being
funny while making the pre-
sentation for visual effects.
Owing to his restraint, we
were able to concentrate our
attention on the winners in
thiscategory,whowere...well,
you know who they were.
But thebiggestthanksgoto
the producers,designers and
directors ofthisyear'sawards
ceremony for keeping us on
the edge of our seats waiting
for things to get interesting.
That they never did is a trib-
ute to how truly well-crafted
an evening it was. In past
years, the Academy Awards
show has always suffered
from dead spots and lapses
in the pacing. Not this year.
No more ups and downs. No
more suspense. No surprises.
No unexpected delights and
funny moments. This time,
it was one long dead spot.
Three and a half hours of
total flatness. So thanks,
Academy, for a show that
never once threatened our
equanimity, that left us free
to doze intermittently and
dream of glamour,beauty and
accomplishment. Thanks,
Academy.Thank you. Thank
you. Thank you.
Intheend,whatwearemost
grateful for is that we have
reached anagewherememory
doesn't hold. In a month or
two we won't remember how
flat, tiresome and cheesy the
whole self-serving Academy
Awardsceremonywas.And by
the time it rolls around again
next year,wewillhave forgot-
ten entirely that it might be
more interesting to watch
ping pong ballsmate.
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Cape Cod in the last three months. We'll look for the
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