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Westerly’s Gold …...Her People

 

The Westerly Historical Society is delighted to introduce this work by Thomas A. O’Connell. Mr. O’Connell has unearthed the lives and achievements of our hidden treasures—some of our most talented predecessors—in Westerly’s Gold.

 

After a career teaching English, Mr. O’Connell, as Editor of our Society Newsletter, turned to history. Combining these strengths, he has produced a most interesting collection of stories about Westerly’s finest citizens.

 

Our own Admiral Dunn appears, not just as a famous inventor, but as one of our neighbors. We see Westerly’s Elizabeth Fitz Pendleton, who became the president of prestigious Wellesley College. We meet Westerly’d first high school principal, Osceola Holcomb Kile. We learn about some of our other institutions, such as the original armory, the origins of the police department, and Town budget machinations during the Depression. We find that change is less than it seems over the past one hundred years.

$12.95

A Collection of Post Card Memories

 

The Westerly Historical Society has compiled more than 100 images from its extensive post card collection onto a compact disk for easy viewing. These beautiful images recapture historic views of Misquamicut, Watch Hill, Avondale, and Westerly.

$19.95

Leaves of My Journal—A. Whaler’s Writings

Compiled and Edited by Dwight C. Brown, Jr.

 

The compilation of this series of articles were extracted from the Narragansett Weekly of 1861, in various issues. The Narragansett Weekly was a newspaper being published on Thursdays of each week and was under the guidance of the Utter family, who were members of the Seventh-day Baptists in Westerly.

 

This series of articles were written by a person who wished only to have his name known as ‘A. Whaler.’ The name of the ship, the Indus, which he mentions at the beginning of the series, evidently is a fictitious name as no reference could be found by the compiler for a vessel of this name. Neither could a vessel of this name be found as sailing from the port of New Bedford anytime in the 1840’s.

$19.95

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A lovely grouping of post card images of Watch Hill mounted on foam core and arranged in an off white matt, windowpane format.  Overall dimensions are 12” high X 22” wide.

 

The images are crisp and colorful.

 

This would make an ideal gift.

 

Price……………$50.00

The Watch Hill Grouping

The Westerly Grouping depicts a trio of popular Westerly views: Dixon Square, looking toward the library; Wilcox Park and pond; High Street with post office on right.  Images are mounted on foam core and matted in off white.  Overall dimensions are 15” high X 9” wide.

 

Price……………….$36.00

Nostalgic Post Card Keepsakes Collections

The Westerly Grouping