Day: May 22, 2012

Got Stuff? Need Stuff? Recyle in Style: Rockport Rotary Mega Yard Sale this Saturday May 26

Got Stuff? Need Stuff? Rockport Rotary Club is hosting a huge yard sale where you can sell or buy – and have some family fun!  YMCA youth will be doing face painting and you can grab a coffee, donut, or hot dog to start your day.  Wow – there are even restrooms! It all goes down at the Rockport School Grounds (24 Jerdens Lane, Rockport) this Saturday May 26 from 8 am to 1 pm (Rain date Sunday May 27, 1 to 5 pm).  Admission is free, and so is parking. Recyle in style, and if you wanna renta space to get rid of your good junque, contact the Club and for just $50 donated clams you get a nice big spot, and they help you market your stuff with lotsa customers and area advertising (you keep all the dough from your sales). Contact Kecia German, ksgerman@verizon.net, 978-283-2924 or, Bill Elwell, 978-423-4855 for details, or seewww.rockportrotary.org

Manchester Beach Club Looking At Its History

Does anyone remember when there were horse shows–yes, horse shows—on Crescent Beach (aka Gray Beach and Magnolia Beach) and the private gallery from which to watch them? Or perhaps the grand hotels prominently situated with spectacular ocean views? Are there any recollections of ladies in knee-length bloomers and swim dresses basking on the sparkling sands of Kettle Cove? Were the fifty cases of “real old Scotch,” jettisoned into Harbor in 1922 just as authorities were about to nab the Prohibition-busting smugglers, ever found?

This is only part of the history of the Magnolia/Manchester seaside, when the beach and its beach club were sought-after summer destinations for the movers and shakers of the early Twentieth Century’s “Golden Era.” From Boston and St. Louis, Philadelphia and Kansas City, politicians, captains of industry and society swells flocked to the sunny sands of “little Newport” to see and be seen.

In 1913, the North Shore Swimming Pool made its debut, with a salt-water swimming pool and a membership roster of the “who’s-who” in families of that era. With changes through the years, it is now known as the Manchester Bath & Tennis Club and will celebrate its 100^th anniversary in 2013, and asks for your help in compiling memories from days long gone and not so long ago.

If you are a present or former member of the B&T, attended events there, or have friends or relatives who did, the Centennial Historical Committee of the Manchester Bath & Tennis Club would appreciate your photos, menus, dance cards and other memorabilia to compile a memory book recounting the past 100 years. All submissions will be catalogued and returned to the owners when the project is finished. Please share your memories and memorabilia with the MB&T Centennial Historical Committee by contacting MBT100th@gmail.com orwww.facebook.com/groups/mbt100th.  Your contributions will be greatly appreciated.