Hi folks-  wanted to create a family text chain to keep everyone in loop RE: JG’s release from CCH. Please share with spouses/kids will expand the list later but just wanted to be able to respond to all your inquiries/well wishes as a group

Firstly, JG is very happy to be home at 404 and getting her “out” and RE-established with her nursing/PT/OT team from KindredCare/CenterWell is far better than having her rehab facility (which is what hospitalist/case mgrs at CCH were promoting).  Her release home contingent on having oxygen and a hospital bed – all of which are now installed.  Her oxygen levels still haven’t stabilized so she’ll be “making oxygen” (as she calls it!

) for the foreseeable future. Just concluded a very good PT evaluation session with “Firm Handshake Dean” who she likes very much along with the rest of her CenterWell team. Dean also helped us learn how better to manage the in/out of bed routine. For now it’s been a two-person effort and JG confined to her B/R and “resting” a lot -particularly after getting up out of bed and to the commode… 15 minutes of conversation/TV/photo viewing at most is about all she can handle before resting. This morning she again announced she’s not ready to receive visitors.  Aunt Nancy next door is 102 today and JG passed along Happy Birthday message to her sis but not ready for a visit. Marla, Andrea and I are all here now. I left Saturday and returned Monday in time for mom’s 404 arrival.  We have relayed all your loving inquiries to JG who repeatedly expresses gratitude for all the love and support (“I’m very fortunate” she says).  While a near-term visit would exhaust her, she can handle periodic calls/FaceTimes – albeit they may only last 3-5 minutes and she’ll hand the phone back to one of us (she’s not using her phone at all just yet)…

Another thing she might enjoy is/are photos! Have recently updated her Pix-Star photo “frame”. If you send a photo of home or family members etc it’ll pop up on the “slide show” which she loves!  Here’s where to send pics: danayker@mypixstar.com
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She just “perked up” following post-PT rest session and propped her up to watch the birds feeding off the deck feeders overlooking upper mill pond. 

. That’s all for now!

Love to all!
Rab

History tells us that all lands East of Bass River belonged to the Nauset Tribe, but most of present-day Brewster was home to the Sauquatucket people and was called Sauquatucket.

The northeast section of town was home to the Namskaket tribe. It was customary for both the Namskaket and Sauquatucket to camp inland in winter and move along the estuaries (Paine’s Creek and Namskaket) toward shore in summer. For the Sauquatucket, the migration of the herring from Cape Cod Bay to the Mill Pond was their signal to begin their own migration.

In 1619 Thomas Dermer, who was a navigator employed by Sir Ferdinando Gorges, visited Sauquatucket. He brought with him Squanto of Patuxet (now Plymouth) to explore for fertile ground, but apparently, they did not find what they were looking for, as they did not stay long. But soon enough the English established a colony at Plymouth and migrated down to the Cape penninsula to stay.

The Native Peoples, who were acutely aware of the landscape and how to use it to survive, taught the English much about this land. Corn became the colonists’ staple. In fact, it is unlikely that any of the Plymouth Colony would have survived if they hadn’t stolen a cache of Native corn when they first arrived and later been taught how to plant it.

The whales that stranded along this shore were a source of food for the Native Peoples, but became a valuable source of oil for the colonists. Present day Route 6A follows an ancient Native foot path that was well established before the arrival of the colonists. Present day Millstone Road was a well-traveled North-South corridor. Long Pond (called Mashpa) and Sheep Pond were also food sources.

On June 24, 1653, most of present-day Brewster from Cobbs Pond to Namskaket Creek was purchased for the sum of fifty-eight pounds sterling from sachems Wono and his son Sachemas by Thomas Prence and William Bradford on behalf of Plymouth and its partners. The area not yet incorporated as its own township, the western section fell under the jurisdiction of Yarmouth and the eastern section under Eastham. (Dennis and Orleans were not yet incorporated as separate towns).

Around 1663 Governor Thomas Prence constructed the grist mill on what was known as the Satucket River (now Stony Brook), which ground corn for Native and English alike from towns as far away as Eastham. In 1694 “The Satucket Lands” as they were then called were incorporated as the Town of Harwich. (See map below – North is at bottom). The lands ran from Namskaket Marsh (then the bound for Eastham) to Quivet Creek (then the bound for Yarmouth) and from “sea to sea” (Nantucket Sound to Cape Cod Bay). In 1803 the North Precinct of Harwich petitioned for separation and became the Town of Brewster.

As less and less of the land was available to the Native Peoples for hunting and gathering, they sold more and more in order to get by, and the tribes got pushed onto smaller and smaller parcels. The last full-blooded Sauquatucket Indian, Rebecca or “Beck” Crook, died in 1818 at age 91 in the home of Phillip Ellis, Jr., her children having pre-deceased her. The last of her lands was taken by the Town to pay for her care during her long decline.

With special thanks to Brewster Historical Society Board member Chris Dudzik. For more from Chris about the Sauquatuckets. (And Marcy for sending around).

When: Dec 26, 2022  11 AM
Where: Meet on Ker’s 404 deck

Event will start as soon as we review the course and event completion requirements.

Course details and map will provided at later date. Course and length will be considered based on interest. So far the race administrators have mapped out a 1.6 mile loop.

Hot Chocolate and donuts will be provided at  the 404 deck side finish line.

Indoor fireside viewing is available for spectators)

Please contact race administrators with question and please note that volunteer opportunities  are available

Avery (240 731 7291) avecoh7@aol.com
Marla (301 742 1032) marla.ker@icloud.com
Greer (301 787 5446) greerdoble@icloud.com

Or 

Ker  404 landline: 508 896 5027

Hello—

Instead of hosting a party, which would be too much for him, I am asking those who would be interested to consider sending him a card.  Tony always sent cards for any and all occasions—and sometimes for no “occasion” at all, so a lasting gift of a display of cards in his apartment would mean a lot to him.

If you would like to do this, here is his address:

Anthony L Correia

10 Golf Avenue, Apartment 218

Plymouth MA 02360

I know he’d love to hear from you!

Wendela