[SEMCO] Brewster’s Twentieth Century: A Retrospect with Author Jim Coogan

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
October 11, 
2017 
Teresa Izzo
                                                                        508-896-3867 
ext. 137
                                                            tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging Into the Past
   Brewster’s Twentieth Century: A Retrospect
with
  Author Jim Coogan


BREWSTER, MA ­Digging Into the Past, the Cape Cod 
Museum of Natural History’s archaeology and 
history series presents Brewster’s Twentieth 
Century: A Retrospect with   Brewster native and 
author Jim Coogan, Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 1pm.

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.

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, Sears Point: A Cape Cod Novel, 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

Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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