The Gift Shop is located in the Maritime and Mossing Museum

There are many interesting and attractive items available. At this time the featured specials are:

The Scituate Light guidebook (pp 24, $5.95 plus $5.00 S&H) tells the story of one of the country's most storied beacons, Scituate Lighthouse on Cedar Point in Scituate, Massachusetts. In the telling it weaves in many of the high points in Scituate's history:

• The famous tale of Scituate's "Army of Two," the teenage daughters of first light keeper Simeon Bates, who scared off a British invasion.
• The wreck of the freighter Etrusco and the origins of Scituate's Etrusco Associates
• The story of many famous storms, including the tradgedy of the lighthouse on Minot's Ledge
• and many, many other incidents in the 190 years of the Scituate Lighthouse

(Cover cut illust. by Donna Elias, used with permission,(c) Resort Graphics, Atlantic City, NJ)

Images of America: Scituate (pp128 $18.99 plus $5.00 S&H) was the best selling book in Acadia's line in 2000. Every page is a pictorial display of scenes of old Scituate, scenes now mostly long gone.

The eight chapters are entitled: Villages; Personalities; Lighthouses and Lifesaving; Storms, Shipwrecks, and Disasters; Schools; Churches and Public Buildings; Thomas Lawson's Dreamwold; and Landmarks and Legends.

Images takes us on a tour of Dreamwold, "Copper King" Thomas W. Lawson's beautiful country estate, and through the villages to meet the endless list of interesting people who lived there...Along the way we patrol the beaches with the surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service under the shining beacons of Scituate and Minot's lights...

Beauty, Strength, Speed: Celebrating 100 Years of Thomas W. Lawson's Dreamwold ($19.95 plus $5.00 S&H) a new book published by the Scituate Historical Society and the Donning Company on the 100th anniversary of Lawson's Scituate estate.

There is still time to join Yankee Magazine and the Scituate Historical Society in a special fund-raising effort to promote and preserve the history of this town. Each $20 subscription includes a full year subscription to Yankee and an $8.00 contribution to the Scituate Historical Society

All the above items may be ordered by postal mail addressed to: Scituate Historical Society, P.O. Box 276, Scituate MA 02066. Include your check for the listed amount, including S&H. Massachusetts residents add 5% sales tax.