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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<br>
October 11,
2017
Teresa Izzo<br>
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508-896-3867 ext. 137<br>
tizzo@ccmnh.org<br>
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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents<br>
<i>Digging Into the Past<br>
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BREWSTER, MA Digging Into the Past, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History’s archaeology and history series presents <i>Brewster’s Twentieth
Century: A Retrospect</i> with Brewster native and author Jim
Coogan, <b>Thursday,</b> <b>November 9, 2017 at 1pm.<br>
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</b>Jim will take a look-back at a Cape Cod town during a century of
transition. From a small community dominated by a handful of
long-established families, Brewster saw little change during the first
decades of the 1900s. Through the traditional days of subsistence farming
and fishing, and into the hard years of the Depression, the town’s
population gradually declined as young people left to find better
opportunities off-Cape. After World War II veterans returned home
to a place that was much the same as they had left it. However, by the
1960s, the population began to grow as people from nearby metropolitan
areas moved to Brewster to raise families and to take advantage of the
construction jobs that would dominate Cape Cod in the last quarter of the
century. Somewhat reluctantly, Brewster accepted the new reality of
social, political, and economic change as it tried to hold on to its
history while at the same time adapting to modern times. As the
twenty-first century dawned, the town had become transformed to a modern
suburban community with a solid year-round economy and a population that
was ten times larger than it had been in 1900.<br>
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Brewster native Jim Coogan was a high school teacher at Dennis –Yarmouth
Regional High School for 27 years. Upon retirement, he went into
partnership with Dennis author Jack Sheedy and formed Harvest Home Books.
Together they have co-written 11 books about Cape Cod. Jim’s latest book,
<i>Sears Point: A Cape Cod Novel,</i> is a study of Brewster in the
twentieth century as the town moved from the kind of place that inspired
the novels of Brewster author Joseph C. Lincoln, to the up-to-date
suburban community that it is today. Jim lives and writes in
Sandwich and will be signing his books at the presentation<br>
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Free with Museum Admission<br>
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<b> </b>For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867
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Teresa Izzo<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
869 Main St./Rte. 6A<br>
Brewster, MA 02631<br>
508-896-3867 x137<br>
508-896-8844 - fax</body>
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