Other treasures available at the Gift Shop

The Scituate Historical Society has a variety of merchandise available. Specially commissioned Pairpoint Company suncatchers of Lawson Tower and Scituate Light, note cards, postcards, tote bags and mugs are but a few of the items in stock. Gicleé and poster reproductions of Thomas Lawson's "Minot Poem" can be ordered.

• Boston's South Shore - a Photographic Portrait ($24.95 plus $5.00 S&H) This exquisite full color photographic record covers Boston's South Shore communities of Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, Norwell, Marshfield, Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth. These 164 color images have been selected from over 600 photographic entries. They portray the diverse settings, activities, ocean and landscapes that have made the South Shore so enticing for over four centuries
  
  The captions written by well known South Shore reporter Molly Hochkeppel deliver a word picture of what you are looking at, important historical and human aspects of why the look and feel of the South Shore is beloved
  
  
• Early Planters of Scituate by Harvey Hunter-Pratt ($19.95 plus $5.00 S&H). A history of the Town of Scituate, Massachusetts from its establishment to the end of the Revolutionary War.
  
  
• The Glades by Mary B. Hunnewell ($7.00 plus $5.00 S&H). Being an historical account of the land and activities associated with that portion of North Scituate now known as the Glades, and of the institution known as The Glades Club
  
  
• History of Scituate, Massachusetts by Samuel Deane ($29.95 plus $5.00 S&H). Called "the definitive history of Scituate." Published in 1831. From the preface "The reason for a more thorough and copious history than had hitherto emerged may be found in the facts, that it was one of the earliest settlements in New England, that it took the lead in population, and bore an important part in the civil and military affairs of Plymouth Colony, that it has produced eminent characters, and furnished colonists for peopling more recent settlements in many States of the Union."
  
  
• Irish Mossers of Scituate, Massachusetts by Barbara Murphy ($7.00 plus $5.00 S&H). From the introduction "While much has been written about the beginnings of Scituate, little has been published about the town during the 1800's...the Irish immagrant group which evolved here found a unique way in which to establish themselves as a part of the community."
  
  
• Old Scituate ($18.00 plus $5.00 S&H). First published by the Chief Justice Cushing Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution in 1921. The fourth edition published in 2000 by the DAR Chapter and the Scituate Historical Society. From the foreword - "The contents of this volume represent, in part, the historical papers collected by the Chief Justice Chapter of the DAR...to make use of the more historical facts which mark the milestones among the wars of the town's history."