About The Project

This web site has three goals:

1. To preserve some of the pictorial history of the Orleans area.

2. To have some fun remembering people or antecedents.

3. To ask you, if you have enjoyed this site, to demonstrate your appreciation by donating a sum of money to the Lower Cape Outreach Council, a non-profit organization where neighbors help out neighbors (19 Brewster Cross Road, Orleans, 02653, tel.: 508-240-0694). To visit their website, click on this link: The Lower Cape Outreach Council. 

In addition to this website, I put together two sets of actual photos, typical scrapbook style, which contain many more entries than the website.  This because many of the older photos were not of good enough quality to be copied, and changed into an electronic format, with any degree of clarity.  These actual scrapbooks, measuring 12" x 15", will be available to the public for short periods of time in the following locations and times:

The hard copies of this scrapbook will be available to the public in the following places and times:

• At the Orleans Council on aging – the week of June 22nd.
• At the office of the Lower Cape Outreach Council, Brewster Crossroad, Orleans – the week of June 29th.
• After July 4th, one set of volumes will be available to the public at Snow Library and another at the Orleans Historical Society.

Though I realize that some of the photos are not very clear here, on the website, I decided to include them so that you might get an impression of what the hard copies contain, usually of much better clarity.

I thought that this project would take me a few months to complete, but it has taken as many years!  It started out with my talking to a few people and gathering up a few photos.  But then it took on a life of its own, and I found myself visiting more than eighty people, copying their photos, and, the hard part, finding out the names of the people in the photos.

This is  a living project, as it isn't yet complete, because there are those among you who have local photos from the 1950's and earlier that would fit very well into this "Scrapbook" and who would be willing to let me copy them and make them part of the site.  Please contact me at shermgsjr@live.com, or by phone 508-255-3123.  I'll do all the work.

A special thanks to Mike Kemp, PMP, Project Manager, whose depth of knowledge of the computer and his patience with me, without which this project would never have been completed. I highly recommend him for a project you may have, but need some expert assistance. He’s in Brewster, 508-896-6803, or to visit his website, click on this link Kemp Resources.

Here are the names of people who have contributed to this project. I've tried to be careful to include everyone and apologize if someone has been left out - it wasn't intentional. If you are aware of a name that's missing, please let me know.