Tripping on Travel: Webster Lake vol 4, Webster, MA

1 year ago
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This footage begins with my entrance from Rt 193 onto Birch Island Rd on Webster Lake. I follow the road all the way to the end, a loop that I followed when I took a right onto Cedar Dr and it brought me back to Birch Island Rd heading in the direction I came from. The rest of the footage is of the same road, but as I drive back to where I began my route. Viewers should take note of what appeared as a large dirt parking lot on the right side of Birch Island Rd, where I slowed down to a crawl due to the driver in front of me pulling into that lot. Viewers will see it again as I go back the other way and it's now on my left. Unfortunately, what the camera angles missed was the property across the road from the parking lot, Waterfront Mary's. The restaurant and bar has a history that goes back to the early 1960s when Mary Dow opened it, investing 20 years of experience she gained in waitressing and the resort industry, into her own place on Webster Lake. There was also a companion named Charles Russell McGeary who ran the establishment with Mary for 40 years. When I ran an internet search about this specific Waterfront Mary's, I didn't find much, but I also didn't expect to find the history that I did in what little I found. The links to the sources are below this description. As well as a website link. You may visit the website and see some photos of the place, but it's clear the place is either in transition or operations there have diminished. I followed the Facebook page link on the website and it wasn't found. And so, it was a Boston Globe obituary from 2003 that basically gave me most of this information about Waterfront Mary's history. And it was when Mary Dow (84) and Charles R McGeary (81) both died in the same month of December, 2003. Other than that, I found a SOLD Zillow listing for a property on Birch Island Rd that spoke to the price of waterfront properties in New England. And an article from 2007 published by the Telegram & Gazette reporting on a legal battle between the owner/partners of Waterfront Mary's at the time, a story that expressed concern about the future of the establishment.

References:
Boston Globe obituary, 2003: Mary Dow, Charles McGeary; owners of Waterfront Mary's
http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/12/29/mary_dow_charles_mcgeary_owners_of_waterfront_marys/

Telegram & Gazette, 2007: Stormy sailing for Waterfront Mary’s owners
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/south-west/2007/09/28/stormy-sailing-for-waterfront-mary/52783797007/

Waterfront Mary's
http://waterfrontmarysbrickovenpizzaandpub.com/

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