My Book
Historic
Hatchville is an
original book-length narrative about a small, centuries-old farming village of
Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod that today has a special sense of place –
specifically, horse and farm country and much serene open space – within this
cosmopolitan tourist town. It is an accurate record of the events, some of them
quite improbable involving big personalities, which has resulted in historic Hatchville retaining its wild character instead of becoming more
residential homes.
It was the
challenge of discovering how historic Hatchville became a semi-rural island
containing over 2,000 acres of conservation land and open space within a
cosmopolitan, seaside resort town with a significant tourist-based economy that
engaged me.
Surely some of the
natural beauty of historic Hatchville would have been lost without successful
battles to restrict inappropriate residential development during the late 20th
Century Cape Cod land boom.
