ver succinct matt.

Sandwich Mass is still "home" - while I was growing up permanent population around 2500, summer population around 20,000 PLUS tourists. Much larger now, they actually have more then one stop light!

"Quaint" New England village, over 300 years old; settled by the "10 men from Saugus"; home in its heydey (late 1800's)to the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, famous for its pressed glass and golden ruby glass, "dolphin" candlesticks and cup plates.

Also home to the (now defunt) Yesteryears doll museam that had the largest collection of Japanese Imperial dolls outside of Japan, The Hoxie House (oldest existing house on cape cod) the Dexter Grist Mill (likewise restored - but only 2nd oldest) and Heritage Plantation, itself home of an antique car collection and the Dexter Rhodendrons hybrids,plus a restored windmill, a restored carousel, an art museum, and a craft museum.

Had the distinction while I was growing up of having one of the largest libraries in Massachusetts when figured books per capita; and (suppossedly) the second purest municipal water supply in the country. (I never did learn where it was that was suppossed to have had the purest)