Cuttyhunk Historical Society

Fish Tales, Hooks, and Chums: Fishing the Elizabeth Islands
Special Exhibition 2009-2010

A celebration of fishing!  Photographs—old and new, skin-stuffed fish—including a world record-holder, fish (in) art, island fishing guide history, trophies, tackle, bass boat information, real fish, plugs, lures, and jigs and much more.

Fish Tales, Hooks, and Chums - Plugs display

Shifting Sands, Rising Seas - Barges Beach

The exhibit chronicles the changing faces of Cuttyhunk’s ‘barges’ beach over the years.  With the inventive use, fifty years ago, of recycled wooden railroad barges or ‘car floats’, the storm damaged beach was rebuilt.  Now, after years of exposure, the barges are almost a memory, a casualty of the dynamic forces of erosion.

Shifting Sands, Rising Seas - Barges Beach

The Museum is open in 2009 from Friday, June 26 to Labor Day, September 7th.
Admission is free, donations appreciated.

Please note that arrangement to visit the Museum during unscheduled hours can be made by contacting Kathryn Balistrieri:  508 984 4611

Fish Tales Preview Reception (Kathryn Balistrieri, June 25, 2009)

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Banner photo on this site courtesy of Dana Morris, early 1970s, showing Bell 6 and the windmill.