Jim ‘Butch’ Ellis is best known as our village blacksmith, but he is also a seasoned fisherman with years of experience working in and out of Barnstable harbor. Starting in the late 1940’s when he was 9 years old, Jim …
Edward Otis Handy, Jr., aka Ned Handy… My father, Ned Handy, loved Barnstable Harbor. His was a long and active affection – from the time he was a boy, he fished and hunted, walked the flats and clammed, watched birds, …
George was always the insider/outsider. He knew everybody but behaved differently than anybody. He often spoke the unspeakable and contradicted the acceptable. No doubt, this one of the reasons that I always sought his company at Barnstable parties, that and …
The large stretch of sand dunes on the harbor side of Sandy Neck, between trails 4 and 5, is known as “Braley’s”. They once belonged to Braley Jenkins, a West Barnstable farmer who grew pears and cultivated cranberry bogs. The …
In the 1820’s, Asa and Daniel Scudder built a sail repair shop at the end of Scudder’s Lane, just at the edge of the harbor. The brothers and their families also ran a variety store in the barn on the …
Mill Way Miscellany by David Loring Crocker (1909-1983) I was born on November 22, 1909 in the little red Cape Cod cottage on Mill Way at the junction of what was once a private way which became Freezer Road after …