Hastings Keith papers
Contributors: Plymouth-Provincetown Celebration Commission
Published: 1959
Language: eng
Subjects: United States. Congress. Committee on Armed Services; Alvin(Submarine); Genealogy; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife; Wildlife conservation; Oral history; Anniversaries; Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Committee; Archival resources; United States; Library of Congress; Conservation of natural resources; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Civil Works Directorate; Otis Air National Guard Base (Mass.); Oral History Project; Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
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.
Notes: No restrictions.

This collection is open for research.

These materials were deposited by Hasting Keith in 1973.

The Honorable Hastings Keith, A Representative from Massachusetts, was born in Brockton, Mass., November 22, 1915.  He was elected as a Republican to the 86th Congress and six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959 -  January 3, 1973).  Congressman Keith retired to his summer property in Bourne, Mass.  During his time in Congress, Congressman Keith worked on Fisheries projects and was a co-sponsor of the Cape Cod National Seashore legislation.

Materials entirely in English.

Finding aid is available on the Nickerson Archive website.

List of Nickerson Room finding aids is available on the Internet. http://www.capecod.edu/web/nickerson/finding-aids.

This collection is part of the Individual Manuscript Collection series of the W. B. Nickerson Cape Cod History Archives, Wilkens Library, Cape Cod Community College.