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Osterville Historian Paul Chesbro

Paul Chesbro’s roots are firmly planted in Osterville. He remembers Charles Jones and Albert “Allie” Colman driving their horse-drawn wagons in Osterville Center when he was a boy in the early 1940s. Just a few years later, Studebaker cars were parked along the side of the street – a subtle indicator that times were changing. But what had come before? What was it like when his ancestors walked the streets of Osterville? Who were their neighbors? What was their life like way back when?
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