The DHAS Board of Directors, after its most recent meeting (Thursday, November 4, 2021) decided to schedule a “Special Meeting in lieu of this year’s Annual meeting” for Sunday, December 12, at 2:00 PM at the schoolhouse headquarters. A brief business meeting (about 30 minutes) will be followed by a presentation which the board is happy to announce will be “Henry M. Plummer: His Houses, His Adventures” brought to us by Judy Lund, local author and historian.

A member of a well-known New Bedford family, Henry Plummer grew up in a large house onHawthorn Street. He led a charmed childhood, but from an early age, found exploits around the city more exciting than school. Dutifully the boys in the family attended Harvard College. One older brother, a well-recognized artist in the city, remained at the Hawthorn Street house with his family. Henry and his family settled into the family farm at Potomska in Dartmouth. Ever restless, with his son and their cat, Henry embarked in the fall of 1912 on a lengthy voyage down the intracoastal waterway
in his 24-foot catboat named Mascot. When he returned, he published the story printed on a mimeograph machine and sewn together with string. It sold out immediately, and was later published in hard copy. In 2001 The Catboat Association again published the diary with Plummer’s photographs that had been discovered by the CBA (The Catboat Association) founder.

Historian Judy Lund, a member of The Catboat Association and a former catboat sailor, will retell this story, using material pulled together by descendant Thomas Plummer and The Catboat Association, adding pieces of Dartmouth history to the mix. Ms. Lund is the long term Chair of the Dartmouth Historical Commission, author or co-author of numerous books, one about catboats, The Catboat Era in Newport Rhode Island, indefatigable researcher, and a major contributor to the Quaker Records Transcription Project of the Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society.

Why don’t you come and join us at our 2021 Annual Meeting, learn about this significant local family story and about travel and visit with fellow historically minded members and friends of DHAS?

​Light refreshments will be served and a $5.00 donation is recommended.

A Facebook Event is available here:  
https://www.facebook.com/events/210115407941742/

We were recently featured in an article by Sandy Quarles Bowles in DartmouthWeek. Here is a link to the article:

https://dartmouth.theweektoday.com/article/%E2%80%98bee-fever%E2%80%99-keeps-him-buzzing-good-health/55658​

Joseph Tardif has been keeping bees since approximately 1963.

Invited to a talk by a student in a biology class, inspired because he needed a hobby, he started by purchasing a newly captured swarm from a fellow beekeeper for $25 and grew the hobby into a small pollinating business of 350 hives. Later the hives were all distributed free to new beekeepers some of whom went on to start their own small honey productions.

The talk will consist of his initial experiences with the "girls", "bee fever", discovering the financial potential of his hives, finding customers for his pollination service, expansion of the number of hives, various races of bees that were chosen to occupy the hives, and many other incidental apiary topics as they come to mind.

ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14 , 2021 AT 2:30PM AT THE RUSSELLS MILLS SCHOOLHOUSE
1205 RUSSELLS MILLS RD, DARTMOUTH, MA

Visit our website at: DartmouthHAS.org and our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/DartmouthHistoricalandArtsSociety

$5.00 DONATION SUGGESTED. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED