Posted on July 24, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
One June afternoon at the age of seven in 1955, my mother and I were picking daffodils at the end of our east laneway. Our house was located at 47 Howland Road across from the Acoaxet Chapel. In the distance we heard a tractor coming up the Cross road and turning onto Howland Road. As […]
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Posted on July 9, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
Posted on July 9, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
By Lois Bradley Small Rev 5/10/2025 […]
Continue ReadingPosted on July 8, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
Harry Bryan 2025 I worked at Bojuma Farm in the summers of 1961 and 1962. We lived about a mile from the farm and my Raleigh bicycle was my commuting vehicle. My first job in the morning was to shift an electric fence to make a new part of a field available to the […]
Continue ReadingPosted on June 30, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
WHS 2012.024.001 This painting by noted artist and author Clifford W. Ashley captures a Westport farming scene in the 1930’s. The farm, owned by the Benoit family, was located on Gifford Road, north of the Ferry farm. According to Vivian Benoit Coutinho, Clifford Ashley discovered the farm by chance: “he would come every morning, same […]
Continue ReadingPosted on June 25, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
New Horseneck Road Will Destroy Farms, Westport Dairymen Fear Going out of business? Westport dairyman Arthur Tripp of Fair Home farm on Main Road wonders if he might not be going out of business shortly. The Commonwealth’s new access road linking uneconomical for him to continue operating his 75 acre farm. Other Westport farmers similarly […]
Continue ReadingPosted on June 11, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
By Jane Dufault In 1980, we purchased land, one half mile from the Head of Westport off Drift Road, and had our home built by Dick Wertz. This land and road eventually became known as Sisson Farm Lane. It was named this as the first settler; Richard Sisson had built the first home in Westport […]
Continue ReadingPosted on June 2, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
The Southeastern Massachusetts Hay Cap These images show a special method for safely storing hay, a moveable roof supported by four posts, historically called a Dutch roof, dutch cap, hay barrack, or hay cap. Building the stack was a skilled task, as it needed to be made waterproof during construction. The haystack would compress […]
Continue ReadingPosted on May 30, 2025 by Jenny ONeill
Elvira Smith grew up on a Westport farm in the 1930s. “We were very frugal. For example we would use the cotton from the flour sacks to make our aprons. I remember that instead of throwing our old sweaters away, we would unravel the yarn, then wash and clean it to take out the […]
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