 | Eastham Historical Society |
| | Eastham Historical Society |
| Publications of the society include: |
 | A 2009 Slide and Video Presentation: Eastham History - Eastham Today - Eastham Historical Society Member Joe Manas has designed a very informative DVD containing Powerpoint slide presentations on Eastham's history, Eastham today, and the Eastham Historical Society. Joe graciously put a great deal of time into research and production of this DVD. Eastham historians Don Sparrow, Jim Owens, and Archivist Barbara Sweetser, among others, helped provide wonderful material contained in the presentation. Even those who feel they know Eastham history will benefit from this entertaining show. The DVD will play on your TV DVD player or on your computer's DVD drive. Copies are available at the Swift-Daley House gift shop or at the Schoolhouse Museum, for only $10.00 each. |
EASTHAM, of the Images of America series, co-authored by EHS archivists Marilyn Schofield and Roberta (Bobbie) Cornish, is a pictorial history of Eastham. Published in May, 2003, it includes over 200 photos taken over the last 150 years giving the reader an overview of our town in its earlier years. The book is available at the museums and other locations. To order by mail, write Eastham Historical Society Archives, P.O. Box 8, Eastham, MA 02642. $21.00 postage paid. |  |
 | Nauset on Cape Cod - A History of Eastham. Compiled by Alice A. Lowe. 156 pages. Includes numerous photographs. $15.00 |
Eastham Historical Society Cemetery Inscriptions Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery Evergreen Cemetery Eastham, MA by Margaret Weiler $8.50 October, 1987 |  |
 | Cove Burying Ground 1660 - 1770 Bridge Road Cemetery 1754 - 1886 A survey conducted in the Bi-centennial Year 1976 at Eastham showing the locations and names on all burial markers. $6.00 |
A Map of Historic Eastham containing recommended tour routes and sites of historical interest. $2.00 |  |
| The Eastham Historical Society presents Old Houses and their Residents, a CD compilation by Nate Cook of information on the old houses of Eastham, Massachusetts, and some of their residents. $10.00 |
Above p ublications can be obtained at the museums, Brown's Superette, the National Seashore Visitor Center or by calling (508) 255-2960. |
| Samoset Road-Cape Cod-USA by Stephen J. Grigas. A history of a road in Eastham circa 1850 to 1930 and of two families, the Clarks and the Nickersons, along with some others, both along an unpretentious path to Cape Cod Bay before it was a road. Numerous photos and illustrations of old Eastham. Available at Ace Hardware store in Eastham and the Eastham Superette. $22.95 |
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Eastham native and eleventh generation Cape Codder Donald Sparrow has authored two books about Eastham. In Growing Up On Cape Cod: Four Brothers Learning to Stand Tall (1999) he tells of his youthful years in Eastham. In his publication A Cape Cod Native Returns: You Can Go Home Again (2002), he writes of his town after an absence of 40 years, relating life for him and his neighbors in Eastham prior to WW2 as well as the changes that have occurred.
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| In his latest book, And They Paid Me Too: A Consultant's Journal , Sparrow reflects on a professional career that took him on a fascinating journey to a very different place, the American and overseas business world in the golden postwar era of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Copies of all of Don Sparrow's books may be ordered for $14.95 each, plus $2.00 for shipping, by writing Great Oaks Publishing, Box 1051, Eastham, MA 02642, or by contacting Don by e-mail at d.sparrow@comcast.net. Also available at the Schoolhouse Museum and the Swift-Daley House.
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| The Little Imp of Cape Cod by Marston E. Daley. The author's life story including recollections of his living in Eastham and the restoration of the Swift- Daley House. 76 pages. $15.00. Available at the Swift-Daley House and the Schoolhouse Museum. |  |
| Henry Beston's Cape Cod, a new 106 page book about Henry Beston and his experiences on Cape Cod, has been published by Outermost Web Site provider Don Wilding. The book tells of the legacy of Beston and his literary classic The Outermost House. Included are previously unpublished photographs, many supplied by friends and relatives of Beston. $12.95 |
| turquoise turnips and pink asparagus, a coloring book of olde eastham by jim owens 28 page 350th Anniversary coloring book includes a set of coloring pencils |
