Special Meeting in lieu of this year’s Annual meeting

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/