🎣 A quiet day of fishing—with a national story behind it
This fishing creel connects Sandwich to one of the most recognizable figures in 19th-century American culture.
🪡Stitched at age 14
This sampler reflects how a young nation taught its children—one alphabet, verse, and family record at a time.
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🕰️Keeping Time in Early Sandwich
This tall case clock may no longer be running, but it remains a powerful timekeeper of Sandwich’s past.
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Dorcas Armstrong
A bit of town history preserved in our archives: this old photo depicts Dorcas Armstrong nearly 100 years ago. Dorcas’s family ran the Meadow Spring Farm for over a century. The Farm is now managed by the Sandwich Conservation Trust.
What is this thing?
Today on "what is that thing", we present a quirky historical artifact from our collection.
The Hyper-specific Cup Plate
So many cup plates! They seem to have been so popular in the mid 1800s that everyone was coming up with their own custom designs.
Fall 2018
By Ann Shea
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
Alice Ware Armstrong
Fall 2017
Teatime
For Whom the Bells Toll: Tea Bells Personalized
By Dorothy G. Hogan-Schofield and Joan E. Kaiser
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
Fall 2016
Lacy Pressed Glass
Connected by a Thread
By Rocky Korr and Joan E. Kaiser
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
Fall 2015
Sandwich Glass Bears
Pomades and Perfumes
By Joan E. Kaiser
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
Spring 2014
Wish You Were Here: Postcards From Sandwich
By Dorothy Hogan Schofield
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
Spring 2013
Portraits of Sandwich – Denizens of Cape Cod’s Oldest Town
By Dorothy Hogan Schofield
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
Spring 2012
The Boston Glass Manufactory
By Joan E. Kaiser
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
Fall 2011
Sandwich and the Civil War
By William F. Daley and Dorothy G. Hogan-Schofield
The ACORN Journal of The Sandwich Glass Museum
