(And what I have come to learn.)
History lives and breathes around us, history lives and breathes through us, history invents us and stories us. -Leslie Bartlett
This is a haunting photograph, photographer unknown. Study it for awhile and you see Rockport for what it was – an alluring seaside village.
[Photo by Charles Cleaves, courtesy of SBHS]
All Ye Irish Sea Moss Gatherers
(in the latter 1880s, the Rockport beaches were dominated by the Irish Sea Moss Gatherers.)
The RAA & Museum Auction is today!
Dear, Read to me of Rockport Past, when its history was alive.
Do turn my head away from what it now portends.
The unprotected Rockport on Cape Cod.
I grieve for what was once ‘The Other Cape,’
Now Stop Signed , it speeds its way and becomes just another cape.
-Leslie Bartlett, May 4, 2016
Rockport History 