I have lived on Quaker Meetinghouse Road my entire life. As far as I knew there was nothing much here except for wood lots until the developments of the 1970s and 80s. I didn’t question that understanding until I stumbled across a photograph of a farmhouse with trellised flowers bordering the porch. On the back of that photograph was a note that read simply: “the Hermitage.” I later came across a series of photographs in the Sandwich Town Archives that included the same flowery porch. Notes...

Shortly after I began volunteering at the Sandwich Town Archives, it acquired a collection of photographs and documents relating to a...