#edwardrowesnow

“From Water-Tower Hill to the brick prison......” - #PointShirley . . . The Winthrop Water Tower atop Great Head as seen from the sea wall on #YirrellBeach. Quick facts I found about the water tower: it was built in 1910, it’s empty (is that true?), it didn’t used to have a cover, originally gray- it was painted red, white & blue for the Bicentennial , #EdwardRoweSnow once lived on Water Tower Hill (he later lived in Marshfield, his books about Boston Harbor are great). . . The prison in the poem would be Deer Island Prison which closed in 1991, replaced by the giant egg shaped “digesters” of the current water treatment plant. Esther Greenwood visits Deer Island Prison in Plath’s #TheBellJar. Deer Island was an island until the 1938 Hurricane connected it to Shirley Gut. #lookingforsylviaplath #igersboston #igersmass #deerisland (at Winthrop, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtM_dsYA29s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yss3xgech62u

#EdwardRoweSnow a top the #JennyLindTower in Truro, sometime in the 1930’s/40’s. It has to be old because he still had some type of staircase to climb inside. We had hoped to get back to the tower for our #CapeCodRoadtrip2020 but the access to the Highland Center is closed due to Covid. Hit the hashtag for #JennyLind and we should have an older story up from a past visit . The Cliff Notes are: the Tower used to be in Boston, and PT Barnum had oversold a concert, and Jenny Lind saved the day by climbing the tower and performing to the crowd outside. It lives abandoned in the woods in Truro these days but it’s not usually to hard to get to. . . Got up early to get a sunrise picture at Highland (Cape Cod) Light, but that’s all under scaffolding for construction..... but what can you do? We’ve had a great weekend on the Cape despite the restrictions: lobster rolls, ice cream for lunch, three other lighthouses and an excellent day at the Wellfleet Audubon this afternoon. There’s less people than a normal summer but all the hotels seemed booked- so people everyone is adapting. Stay safe out there, and wear a mask til things get better! #CovidTravel #CapeCodTravel #Travel2020 (at Jenny Lind Tower) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHpejUl7RZ/?igshid=1qy1ffiiv4l1h

My growing collection of #EdwardRoweSnow books, a few signed with drawings by the author even! Local writer Snow wrote many books about the nautical history of #NewEngland including a great history of lighthouses, the Boston Harbor Islands and legends such as the Gloucester Sea Serpent. Doing some #CapeCod research at the moment #igersnewengland #books #bookstagram #newenglandhistory (at Atlantic Ocean) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDC3Y43leyy/?igshid=q2wvu4hqh3mk

#FlyingSanta making a pass over Boston Light. . . . #WilliamWincapaw operated a sea plane that helped supply and transport between the lighthouses and islands off the coast of Maine. On December 25, 1929 he loaded his plane with small gifts and dropped them to families on these isolated outposts. His “Flying Santa” proved so popular it would expand to include drops all along the New England coast, and he’d enroll his son as well as author #EdwardRoweSnow to help out. . . Mr Snow, a noted chronicler of New England maritime history, took up the role of Flying a Santa from 1936-1980 and you’ll find a plaque honoring his work on George’s Island in Boston #talesofnewengland #igersnewengland #igersboston #igboston617 (at Boston Light) https://www.instagram.com/p/BryDYV4gafk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dwmk2o1nmay2