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1836
DEER SHOOTING - Is getting
to be quite fashionable in the
forests of the Capel Don't laugh
readers -you at a distance that
think our soil can't bear a tree
or shrub -for we have a stately
forest notwithstanding - and
quite genteel sport is had daily
in it hereabouts, by those fond
of the chase and the hunt. Half
a dozen fine Deer were killed,
to our knowledge , last week in
this town - and a plenty are
left yet.
1866
The Ladies of West Barnstable
will hold a Festival on the Eve-
nings of Dec. 25th and 26th, at the
Vestry of the West Barnstable
Meeting House. There will be
a table for Fancy Articles, and
Clam Chowder and Oyster Stew
will be served up each evening.
1896
A real, live Western blizzard
was experienced in this section
last Wednesday and Thursday,
blowing great guns and piling
snow in huge drifts , completely
obstructing street and railway
travel, and doing great damage
on both land and sea. No rail-
road trains put in an appearance
during or immediately after the
storm, and telegraph poles all
along the line beingblown down,
the wiresnowhere were working,
and we were for a time as com-
pletely isolated from the rest of
mankind as were the denizens of
Nantucket... The afternoon train
from Provincetown Wednesday
passed here two hours late, got
stalled at West Barnstable , and
remained in the drifts with its
passengers all night. Conductor
Cushman's evening train from
Boston got stalled at Bourne,
as did the later train from Bos-
ton... A snow train which left
Hyannis at noon Wednesday ran
off the track at West Barnstable ,
where it remained until Thurs-
day forenoon. Brakeman Hallett
of the derailed extra left West
Barnstable at 2 p.m. and after a
hard walk arrived at Barnstable
station at 5.
1916
(Advt) A truthful statement
of a Barnstable citizen, given in
his own words, should convince
the most skeptical about the
merits of Doan's Kidney Pills
... Simeon Robinson , Camp St.,
Hyannis, says: "I had kidney
trouble and constant exposure to
bad weather while fishing made
my condition worse. I had pains
across my back and I passed the
kidney secretions every little
while.... Doan'sKidney Pillssoon
gave me relief and in less than a
week my kidneys were once more
in good shape."
1926
The questionnow comes:Where
canthe public bathe at Craigville?
The town beach is available but
there are no bath houses. The
privileges formerly accorded the
public by the Craigville Associa-
tion will not be continued.
BARSTABLE PARTIOT ARCHIVES DECEMBER 18. 1986
SUPERMAN AND SUPER-SANTA - Jordan Strong, 5, of Hyannis, is Superman
and "Sarge" Tannone of Hyannis is Super-Santa at the Hyannis Library's annual
Santa visit. Jordan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Strong.
1936
Soon one will be able to drive
from Cape Cod to California, or
vice versa, on U.S. Route Six.
This highway, the main Cape
highway down the northshore ,
until now extended to Denver,
Col. Last week the American
Association of Highway Officials
voted to extend the Route Six
designation from Denver to Long
Beach, Cal.
1946
The employees and
the residents in the
Quonset area at Hyannis Airport
were surprised last Wednesday
by the arrival of Santa Claus in
a Helicopter... Santa Claus, Ed-
ward R. Snow, was on his yearly
visit to all the lighthouses on
the Coast for their Christmas
present.
1956
The oldest cranberry grower in
the nation, Wallis S. Harlow, of
Main Street, Santuit , celebrated
his 100th
birthday today in the
house that he and his father
built 65 years ago. A broken hip
seven years ago forced Mr. Har-
low to retire from active work
on the bogs... He attributes his
longevity to "hard outdoor work
and never acquiring the smoking
habit."
1966
Clifford Dow and Rene Poy-
ant of Rencliff Realty Trust met
recently with Barnstable Super-
intendent of Schools Harvard
H. Broadbent to donate to the
local high school for an athletic
field house the florist shop on
the former Elliott property be-
tween Falmouth Rd., Route 28,
and West Main St., Hyannis. Also
donated was the old windmill on
the land to be used at the high
school field for a lookout point.
1976
The highest priority for the
town is redevelopment of the
Hyannis waterfront as a com-
mercial fishing port , a project
(Selectmen Chairman William)
Eshbaugh believed should be
done in conjunction with down-
town Hyannis , Main Street
redevelopment... Harbor Mas-
ter Richard Sturges said that
Hyannis "is the only deep water
port between Chatham and
Woods Hole."
1986 '
Santa Claus arrived Saturday
with a catchy tune on his lips
and candy canes for the children
who packed the West Barnstable
Community Building to greet
him. The tunes were provided
by the Bean Family, Jim, John
and Cindy, a group of folk singers
who grew up on the Cape... Fire
Chief John Jenkins supervised
the serving of coffee provided by
his department and punch and
cookies. He was heard humming
"Watermelon ,"aBean song which
was a favorite with the children
because it involved spitting out
the pits.
1996
After spending months and a
barrel of money to relocate the
Dockside Restaurant up the
hill from its previous location
immediately on Hyannis Inner
Harbor two years ago, the build-
ing is planned for the demolition
pile in favor of 25 condominium
units... Hyannis real estate giant
Stuart Bornstein wants the land
on which the restaurant sits for a
new complex of high-end town-
houses to be called Dockside
Condominiums.
EARLYFILES:
The Conservatory'sworth conserving
A new team is rolling in to take
another crack at keeping the Cape
Cod Conservatory afloat.
Doreen Bilezikian, who served on
the Conservatory's board of direc-
tors many years ago, has returned
as its president. She says she's
already looking to develop another
person on the board who can take
over her job.
The ChristmasTreeShopsfounder
says her short-term and long-term
objectives are one and the same:
financial stability.
"Weneed to go out and ask for do-
nations," she said in an interview.
Bilezikian believes she has some-
thing worth selling.
"It is our music school and it is
the only one we have," she said.
"It's the only place where children
as well as adults can go for musical
instruction that will enhance their
abilities. I believe this community
deserves to have a school that will
offer excellence."
"Community" in that sentence
refers to the Cape, but there are
two particular communities that
have sometimes been at odds over
the Conservatory. Two campuses
exist,oneinFalmouthwithanearby
theater and one in West Barnstable
opposite Cape Cod Community
College without a large performing
space.
"It's like two different worlds,"
Bilezikiansaid ofthe towns. "People
from the Falmouth area don't want
to come to Hyannis, and people
from Hyannis don't want to go to
Falmouth. It's the longest 22 miles
in the world."
Bilezikian didn't say so, but the
separate venues may play a role in
plansto create adowntownperform-
ing arts center in Hyannis, possibly
intheformer NationalGuardarmory
on South Street behind town hall.
Backers ofthe Boch Centerfor the
Performing Arts planned for many
yearsto buildinMashpee,but some
decided eventuallytolook intojoin-
ing with the Conservatory to build
a space on the West Barnstable
campus.
That got the attention of Barnsta-
ble's administration, whichopened
a line of communication quickly in
an attempt to persuade the Con-
servatory to "come on down"to the
Main Street area for its performing
center.
"It really is the town that wants
to create the performing arts center
andreallyhasbeeninthe conceptual
stage," Bilezikian said, "so I really
haven'tbeeninvolved.Therehasnot
been a need until we move beyond
that. The site has definitely to be
selected."
For now, her focus will be on at-
tracting support for the Conserva-
toryandhiringanexecutivedirector.
She'll have a good product to sell:
the school has been increasing the
quality of its artistic programming
and the frequency of public perfor-
mances.
With astronggroupof"instrumen-
tal"civicleaders behindit,weexpect
the Conservatory to makebeautiful
music for some time to come.
EFM
editor@barnstablepatriot.com
Progress report
Elements of the forthcoming report
from town council-appointed charter
review committee 's are taking shape
and they aren't looking much like what
may have been anticipated.
When the committee was created in
pretty quick fashion in of October, the
charge was for the group to review the
section of the town charter that dealt
with the town council , paying particu-
lar attention to size, composition and
mode of election. It was in that spirit
that the 11-member board started
its work , and began going line by line
through the document. Last week's
revelation that little can be done about
the council's size short of all at-large
members or special legislation has
refocused members.
The report, due to the council in
February, is likely to serve more as a
road map than set of directions. It will
address the limitations the council,or
charter commission for that matter,
will face, most emanating from how
the town's precincts are created after
the 2010 census.
There'sstillwork to be done,but the
focus is there and the product to be
expected will be a benefit to those in-
terested in revamping how Barnstable
governs itself.
DS II
editor@barnstablepatnot.com
EDITORIALS:
Why he didn 't
read the report
From the Dubya Diaries -
JimBaker finallyunwrapped
his so-called I-Rack Study
Group report after weeks of
hyping it to the media like it
was going to be the second
coming. I had to say out loud
I read it but of course I didn't.
Tony Blair was here the day
the thing came out and he
said he read it . too. We had
a good laugh about that and
went back to playing video
games in my office.
And like I said at the time,
now Jim Bakpr can go back to
his day job.
Am I the only one who no-
ticed how long that thingwas?
Just ninety-six pages, that's
all. What was Baker thinking?
I've got one on my desk and I
swear it hardly leaves room for
my video game stuff. I don't
know how many copies of the
fool thingthey printed but Ido
know this: ain't nobody says
they're reading it is actually
reading it. McCain, Hillary,
Teddy Kennedy. Whatshis-
name Levin - all those people
talking about the I-Rack
Study Group Report are not
fooling me. They didn't read
it any more than I did. Know
why? Because it's too long,
that's why. Know what else?
It's borrring.
Ole Baker went on every TV
and radio show in creation
and kept saying there 's sev-
enty-nine points inthe report ,
seventy-nine points, seventy-
nine points , seventy-nine
points. And every one of 'em
agood point. Every single one.
He even said, I hope people
(meaningme, of course) don't
think of the report as some
kind of fruit salad where you
take alittle of thisand a little
of that. I think (hell. I know)
he was saying, George H.W.'s
boy George W. better swaller
thisthangwhole, else it won't
amount to two cents worth of
spit and George Two's goin'
down as the worst president
ever drew adoodle onthe oval
desk. On the desk in the Oval
Office is what I mean.I mean
I didn't doodle on the walls
of the Oval Office, I doodled
on the desk. Follow? Never
mind, doesn't matter, I know
what I mean.
I guess Jim Baker thinks
because he was dad's secre-
tary of state he can pull some
kind of rank onme. Well,here's
the thing, Mr. James Addi-
son Baker the Third, in case
you hadn't noticed , I am the
President of the United States
and ain't no hotshot oil lawyer
out of Houston gonna tell me
what I should read and what
I should do.
Seventy-nine points! I get
reports all the time from
people just as smart as James
A. Baker the Third that can't
even make one point, never
mind seventy-nine. Give me
a break, seventy-nine points!
Even if I pulled an all-nighter
and reaf.the whole thing,
how in the world am I go-
ing to be able to remember
seventy-nine points? Even if
I wanted to.
Besides , I already know
about a couple of the sev-
enty-nine and I don't agree
with them. For one, James
A. Baker the Third has me
cozying up to the I-Ranians
so'sI can get ahead in I-Rack.
Does that make any sense?
The I-Ranians hate me and
I hate them. Same with the
Syrians. They hate me, I hate
them. No point in talking to
'em. Course, there's some I-
RaniansI don't hate and some
Syrianstoo,I guess,but that's
another story.
Note to myself: Notice who
else was on this study group?
Note to myself: Are you on
a study group or in a study
group? Note to myself: Who
cares? Seems to me most of
the study group were what
you might call old-timers
including James A Baker
the Third and Sandra Day
O'Connor, who's so old she
looks like my mother, and Ed-
die Meese, who'ssoold he was
middle-aged when he worked
for Reagan. They al^ went to
Baghdad and, according to a
story I did read, they hid in
the Green Zone, except for
Chuck Robb, Lynda Bird's
wayward hubby-bubs. He
went out on the town. You
ask me, they're all a bunch of
surrender monkeys.
Anyway, I'm ignoring the
study group report .The only
reading I got time for these
days is the Constitution. I
figured I ought to know alittle
somethingabout it,but Igotta
say this: that Constitution is
a thing of surpassing weird-
ness. Some ideas in there
that could make you crazy.
Especially if you happened to
be President.
THE TF VIEW FROM
AStoCE
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