• creator: Keith, Hastings, 1915-2005 Plymouth-Provincetown Celebration Commission
  • contributor: Plymouth-Provincetown Celebration Commission.
  • Keyword: Keith, Hastings, 1915-2005. Keith family. Joseph, Stanley. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. Nickerson, Joshua A (Joshua Atkins), 1901-1990. Alvin(Submarine) History. United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Civil Works Directorate Massachusetts. United States. Congress. Committee on Armed Services. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Committee Massachusetts. Conservation of natural resources Massachusetts Cape Cod. Conservation of natural resources Massachusetts Nantucket Sound. Library of Congress Oral History Project. Oral history Archival resources. Otis Air National Guard Base (Mass.) Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Anniversaries, etc. United States. Coast Guard. Wildlife conservation Massachusetts. Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.) Massachusetts Genealogy. Monomoy Wilderness (Mass.) Naushon Island (Mass.)
  • pages: 1 carton.
  • description: Biographical and position papers of Massachusetts State Senator and U.S. Congressman Hastings Keith. Includes 10 folders on the Cape Cod National Seashore, including bills H.R. 5786, H.R. 989, introduced by Hasting Keith promoting the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Also included is an oral history transcript from the Library of Congress recording the major bills and achievements of this former congressman. Position Papers include the Tanker Disaster Act of 1967 and papers and correspondence concerning the controversial creation of a wildlife refuge on Monomoy Island the the debated Phase Down of the Otis Air Force Base. Other issues covered in Keith's papers include: Nantucket Sound Island Trust, Naushon Trust, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Penn Central Rail freight service shutdown and the Plymouth-Provincetown Celebration Committee. Included in this collection are photographs (38 items) dated 1967 related to Congressman Keith.
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