blizzard of ‘78; no snow in near minot beach in scituate

February 7, 2008 at 4:24 pm | In 78, barnstable town council, blizzard, janet joakim, janet swain joakim, minot, scituate, surfside rd | 1 Comment
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I grew up in the Minot section of Scituate; our house was across the street from the Minot Fire Station and three blocks from Minot Beach. I was a teenager in 1978.

Back then there were very few people living in my immediate neighborhood year-round. We lived on a road that ran perpendicular to Surfside Road. Surfside is a street that ran along a strip of land between Minot Beach and Musquashicut Pond. The end of Surfside Rd. was the beginning of a long stretch of barrier beach that was like small mountains of smooth beach rocks leading to Egypt Beach and Mann Hill Beach.

Before sunset that February evening we had watched the waves doing that dramatic dance against the seawalls creating Continue reading blizzard of ‘78; no snow in near minot beach in scituate…

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