New Englanders are all familiar with cold weather and skating on frozen ponds, and in particular on Cape Cod, skating on frozen cranberry bogs. Margot Fitsch recalls in her oral history on our YouTube channel, “parents preferred the bogs as you couldn’t fall through very deep.”
Read moreIn the Attic - Chinese Skull Cap
Vintage Chinese silk cap is in very good condition with some very fine embroidery work on the black panels. The circular, gold symbol is believed to be “Luck.” A top knot with a tassel completes the design. Most likely purchased in a Chinese port as an early souvenir by a Brewster family member while abroad.
Read moreIn the Attic - Camphor Campaign Secretaire Chest
The Chinese camphor chest sprang up in 18th or 19th-century China as a highly-functional and decorative art piece. While it is possible to find chests from the 18th century, most available ones were produced in the 19th century.
Read moreIn the Attic - Snappit Point
Brewster Namskaket Arrowhead known as a Snappit Point. These points date from the Middle Archaic to Late Archaic period, between 6,000 - 8,000 years old.
Read moreIn the Attic - Ouija Board
What better way to have fun on a dark solstice evening than lighting a few candles and playing the Ouija Board?
Read moreIn the Attic - Portrait of Captain Freeman H. Bangs
Portrait of Captain Freeman H. Bangs. Born in Brewster, November 1, 1809, Bangs commenced going to sea as a boy. In 1836, he had command of the brig Roxanna in the Mediterranean trade.
Read moreIn the Attic - Satucket Map 1795
In 1694 “The Satucket Lands” as they were then called were incorporated as the Town of Harwich. They ran from Namskaket Marsh (then the bound for Eastham) to Quivet Creek (then the bound for Yarmouth) and from “sea to sea” (Nantucket Sound to Cape Cod Bay). This 1795 map shows Harwich before the 1803 divide separating Brewster from Harwich.
Read moreIn the Attic - Shellwork Bouquet
This is a Shellwork bouquet (coquillage) c. 1850. Its medium is shells (coquillage), blown glass, walnut.
Read moreIn the Attic - Portrait Jewelry
Susan Griffith Bangs 1809-1850
Close up images of jewelry pieces from the Sea Captains oil portraits currently on display at the Captain Cobb House Museum.
Read moreIn the Attic - Milk Bottle
Where I grew up in Brewster in the 1950s, there was a dairy farm in our neighborhood. Ollie Lund ran a herd of maybe 15-20 cows, mostly Holsteins and Guernseys just off Main Street…
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