#mattapoisett

[camera-worker]

Arabella Launch, Mattapoisett, 2023 #10-094-07

[scenicworlds]

June 5, 2023

Helping Luc sail his new boat, Holiday, to Maine for the next couple days. Mattapoisett, MA.

[harveyspictures]

Shaw Farm Trail, Mattapoisett MA, August 12, 2023

[unknownbirds]

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[focsle]

Since I've spent the entirety of my day with whaler Marshall Keith, here's what I've learned about him across records, newspapers, and his own diary. I like learning the backgrounds of the fellows whose journals I end up reading. - Marshall was a career whaleman from Mattapoisett Massachusetts. He first went to sea at the age of 15 on the whaleship Sun, 1853-55. He seemed to take to the work well, jumping rank to become an 18-year-old boatsteerer on the Afton 1856-59. 1859-62 he set sail again on the Ocean Rover, likely again as a boatsteerer. - In the last leg of its journey, the Ocean Rover was captured and burned by Confederate raider CSS Alabama. As a POW Marshall was paroled by the captain of the Alabama--meaning that he would be able to return home under the condition that takes an oath not to take up arms in the war. When the draft is instated for the American Civil War in the summer of 1863, as such, Marshall is exempted from it. - Over that summer he either makes the acquaintance of or deepens an existing relationship with a woman named Sarah Pope Taber, four years his junior. They spend 4 months in each other's company in Mattapoisett, and then by 1863-65 he's off again on the Brewster as 3rd mate. He seems to think of her often during the voyage however, documenting his dreams of which she is the object of many. They range from the erotic to the joyful to the anxious, often filled with concerns of some harm befalling her, her snubbing him at a social event ashore, or someone else marrying her or getting her pregnant. She's also the recipient of most of his letters. His writing is marked with the particular social self consciousness so many whalemen seemed to have, doubting his worthiness to her, but also carrying the hope that if they both survive the years of the voyage he'll return home to her. There's a curious relationship to gender that seems to be implied throughout his writing as well, as he refers to her in both his dreams and letters not only as Sarah but as James and Jimmy in equal measure. He expresses clear physical attraction to her as a woman, while also having dreams in which she cuts off all her hair and tries to hide it from him beneath a handkerchief, which he removes and remarks that he never saw her look so well. - Whatever anxiety he has about worthiness is for naught, because come 1866, Sarah marries him at the beginning of the year. By May, however, as a whaler does, he's gone to sea again, this time as first mate on the Cape Horn Pigeon, 66-69. While he's gone, Sarah gives birth to a daughter, Susy, in 1867. - Marshall returns home in May of 1869. Unfortunately he dies next May, 1870, of heart disease at the age of 32. In 1863, in one letter Marshall wrote to his 'angel mother' while he was sick with some ailment, he expressed great distress about dying at sea far from loved ones between the rotting decks of a ship where his body would be tossed into the ocean. He contrasted it with what he imagined Sarah's shore death would be, peaceful and surrounded by the affection of people who cared for her. I like to think that, while he died terribly young, he got a little bit of what he hoped for, being surrounded by family at home rather than saltwater and casks of oil and having a marked grave beneath the grass. - After his death Sarah and her daughter move in with Sarah's mother, and Sarah takes up work as a dressmaker. Sarah unfortunately also dies a mere 2 years later at age 30 of a bowel hemorrhage. Her daughter, then 5, is adopted by one of Sarah's sisters. I always like getting parts of the histories of these folks, as it helps build out the personal world of their diaries. Marshall was a bit of a watercolorist as well. Here are two paintings he made of his ship, in his journal.

[ltwilliammowett]

Razor with ivory handle, it once belonged to Captain Hammond of Mattapoisett, New Bedford, late 19th century 

[whilereadingandwalking]

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy is elite feminist science fiction that digs into biopolitics and the 1970s as dystopia. Connie is a fat Chicana on welfare who is institutionalized after defending her niece from an abusive partner. While struggling to regain her freedom and autonomy, she establishes contact with a person named Luciente and a possible future world, the utopia of 2137 Mattapoisett, a world hard-earned from years of revolution that's based in sexual freedom, true community and emotional catharsis, found family, sustainability, and non-violence.

Piercy is a genius digging into what utopia could look like. I'd be fascinated to know what Mattapoisett could look like now—I suspect more disturbance of the gender binary would be in order—but her world is utterly revolutionary: anti-capitalist, people use "per" pronouns, children are "comothered" and raised to have autonomy and "inknowing" from an early age. Meanwhile Connie struggles in her present, as a new set of doctors with an experimental surgery appear on the scene, reflecting that the true battle of revolution, of where our future will end up, comes down to the most vulnerable of us. The novel is compelling, suspenseful, and asks us many questions of ourselves. I recommend the edition with a new introduction by Piercy which highlights a couple of things she imagines she could change if given the chance.

"The point of creating futures," Piercy writes, "is to get people to imagine what they want and don't want to happen down the road and maybe do something about it." Connie is skeptical and sometimes resentful of Mattapoisett, but ultimately seeing a /possible/ future helps her to understand what is fundamentally wrong about her present. That's what Woman on the Edge of Time has been for me, since I first read it in college in a class about 1970s feminist sci fi: a book that made me reflect on my present, imagine futures, and think about what we need to do to get to the good ones.

Content warnings:

Major: institutionalization, domestic abuse/abuse, medical trauma, sterilization, ableism.

Also: mention of sexual assault, suicidal ideation, substance abuse, grief, n-word use, homophobia

[allureofcrimemurdermystery]

Michelle Carter & Conrad Roy.

It's clear that  Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy III had an intense relationship, made even more so by the fact that it existed primarily through text messages and social media. That unusual arrangement would ultimately end with Carter being tried in court for encouraging Roy to commit suicide over the phone. 

Carter, now 26, was sentenced to serve 15 months for her role in Roy's 2014 death, after being convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter. A judge determined that Carter, who was 17 at the time, was culpable in 18-year-old Roy's suicide after she encouraged him to die by suicide in text messages. She also told him over the phone to get back into his truck, which was filling up with carbon monoxide. Carter was released from prison in January of 2020 on good behavior and has appealed her conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

So, while the majority of their interactions took place from afar, they did meet one another in person. Hulu’s miniseries “The Girl From Plainville” depicts how the teens met and began dating.

Carter and Roy met in 2012, while they were both visiting relatives in Naples, Florida, according to a 2019 Esquire story, and discovered they were both from Massachusetts. Later, Carter told Roy that she fell for him when the two took a bike ride together to the beach, according the HBO documentary, "I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter." The miniseries depicts this fateful moment in Florida between the two teenagers.

Back in Massachusetts, the two towns where they lived were about an hour apart. Roy lived in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, a small harbor town with a population of about six thousand. Carter lived in the suburban Massachusetts town of Plainville, located an hour north.

Even though they lived relatively close to one another, Carter and Roy only met up about five times in person during the two years they dated. They would regularly make plans to meet up but those plans would often fall through. However, the relationship they shared was an intensely personal one. They exchanged thousands of texts, in which they explored their deepest thoughts, including Roy's suicidal ideation and Carter's eating disorder.

Within the hundreds of pages of text messages gathered by investigators, it's clear the teens cared for one another and recognized they needed help.When Conrad went to a psychological facility to help treat her eating disorder, she asked Roy to admit himself as well texting, "would be so good for you and we would get thru our issues together. Think about it. You aren't gonna get better on your own, you know it no matter how many times you tell yourself you are. You need professional help like me, people who know how to treat it and fix it." 

Unfortunately the nature of the intimate texts would evolve. As Roy and Carter began dissecting the best methods of suicide, Carter became frustrated with him and texted, "You better not be bullshitting me and saying you're gonna do this and then purposely get caught."

Roy took his own life just days later.

[bristolcountycyclist]

Yesterday it was minus five and today it was nearly 50 degrees. Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.

[supersonicgf99]

we took a bike ride to mattapoisett and i had two margaritas and a steak sandwich with boursin and now i am reading on the deck and my hair is in two braids and i am the luckiest girl i know

[camera-worker]

Father's Day, Mattapoisett, 2023 #10-095-32

[checkcharm]

Things to Do in Mattapoisett Massachusetts

[harveyspictures]

Phoenix Rail Trail, Mattapoisett MA, August 12, 2023

[capejohn]

Fairhaven/Mattapoisett Bicycle Ride

Date and Time Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 11:00AM – 3:00PM Location Fairhaven/Mattapoiset, MA,Massachusetts, Southeast,MA Registration Registration is required for this activity. Overview This will be a casual 15 mile ride on the Phoenix (Fairhaven) Bike Path and the Mattapoisett Bike Path. There will be some road travel as we visit Fort Phoenix State Park, some pastoral side roads and a…

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