Download or read book Mashpee in Words and Pictures written by Rosemary Burns Love and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip to Ireland in 1978 to visit the birthplace of her ancestors, who emigrated to Stamford, Connecticut in 1850, motivated Rosemary Hickey Burns Love to learn more about her relatives and their lives in Stamford. She spent many hours searching all of the available records, discovering births, deaths and marriages, and the properties bought and sold by her great-great-grandfather and his descendants. That accomplished, she widened her research to discover the identity of the builder of the centuries-old stonewall on the property where she lived in Stamford. The result was a 216-page history: Springdale Remembered - A History of a Section of Stamford, Connecticut 1640-1949, published in 1982. She was a long time member of the Board of Directors of the Stamford Historical Society.A graduate of Katharine Gibbs School in New York City, Rosemary, who was born in Stamford in 1930, and her husband Joe Burns, parents of three daughters, Kelli Young, June Norden and Susan Windle, resided in Stamford until 1985, when they moved to Mashpee, Masssachusetts. Rosemary immediately joined the Mashpee Historical Commission and began a study of Mashpee's past. She has spent thousands of hours researching and correlating all of the records made known to her.To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Mashpee, Rosemary wrote Mashpee 1870-1995, a pictorial history. In 2008 she authored A History of New Seabury by the Sea, about the community where she lives in Mashpee. The Connecticut League of Historical Societies, and nationally known authors Nathaniel Philbrick, William Martin, and Daniel Mandell have acknowledged her contributions to local history.A widow since 1996, Rosemary married Jack Love of New Seabury and North Fort Myers, Florida in 2011. Active golfers and boaters, they reside on Ockway Bay, enjoying all of Mashpee's natural wonders.