The Golden Age of Hull: Old Home Week, Neighbors, and Gala Days

The seaside town of Hull, Massachusetts, has long been a place for summer relaxation, where outdoor band concerts and the lingering scent of clambakes enticed children of all ages to visit and patronize the grand hotels of Nantasket Beach: the Rockland House, the Atlantic House, the Hotel Nantasket and more. Elegant side-wheel steamboats plied the waters from Hull to Boston and back, carrying their passengers in a style that became synonymous with summer on Boston’s South Shore.

The Golden Age of Hull, by lifelong resident and columnist John Galluzzo, recalls those days of splendor on the Nantasket shore as well as some of the forgotten episodes of local history that took place in many of Hull’s proud neighborhoods, from Waveland to Allerton to the Village and beyond. Transient faces both famous and infamous have left their mark on the community, all the while respecting the presence of prominent families that have claimed Hull as their own since the early 1600s.