I just saw a documentary on NOW on PBS. It featured something called the Woods Hole Oceangraphic institue. Is this institute run by the same people that ran the Woods Hole hostel on the AT?

You're the one watching the documentary, you tell us. I highly doubt it.

Woods Hole Institute is located on Cape Cod in Ma., on the ocean, about 100 mi. From the A.T.

Different Woods Hole.

I just saw a documentary on NOW on PBS. Is this institute run by the same people that ran the Woods Hole hostel on the AT?

no.

Woods Hole Hostel VA was run by/Owned by one of Carters Administrations political appointments. He and his wife,Tilly, were very active with the Georgia ATC (hence Woods Hole Shelter) and lived in Giorgia in the winter and ran the hostel during hiking season in VA. In 06 Tilly and her granddaughter were there and I heard a rumor that the grandaughter was going/had taken over the hostell.

The Hostel land is tucked into the National forest land and if not for his connections immanent domain would have ceased them so I am not sure how things went after Tilley's death.

This is all from memory so if I missed something please post corrections. I dought any connection to the Oceangraphic institute.

The Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Institute has been around since 1930 and as far as I know, it has no connection to the Georgia shelter or the Virginia hostel.

Here is a clue that a direct connection is unlikely...
http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=5757&c=583

Still, I'll bet there is still a remote connection of some kind. Their often is.

Let me set the record straight. I know people who work at the oceanigraghic institute, there is no connection between the two!

Well I got that. I just think there is always some connection, probably many, just wondering what the shortest one might be, however remote. The Wood family that the shelter is named after was donated my a family from Maine. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is in Maine. That's a bit of a connection.

Here is a question. Why is it called the Woods Hole Shelter, and not just the Woods Shelter, or the Woods Family Shelter, or the Woods Gap Shelter, or something like that?

Sorry, the Bowdens probably aren't from Maine. I don't know why I thought that. There is a Dick Bowden that is connected to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute though. There you go. I think he's a cousin of a friend of Kevin Bacon. Also, people have eaten bacon in the Wood's Hole Shelter.

I can't find any link between the two.

Hostel

http://woodsholehostel.com/Legend_of_Woods_Hole.html

Oceanographic Institute

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7016

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is in Maine.


No, it's in Woods Hole, MA
(part of Falmouth if I'm not mistaken)

Whoops. Sorry about that.
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=8956

We have a mini Wood's Hole in St.Andrews New Brunswick, the St.Andrews Biological Station,
and something a little more comparable at the Bedford Institute of Oceanograhy in Halifax/Dartmouth Nova Scotia.

So why is it the Woods Hole Shelter, if its named after a family and not a place?

Anyone?

So why is it the Woods Hole Shelter, if its named after a family and not a place?

Anyone?

It's Tilly Wood from the Woods Hole Hostel. She was from GA. :rolleyes:

I met Tillie when I stayed in that hostel.. She said that her family had a place at Martha's vinyard up north.. Her husband had some kind of environmental position back in the seventies.. He lived in the cabin, the hostel to study elk, which are now extinct in the region, I was wondering if maybe they founded the the Wood's hole institute up north as sort of another environmental thing....

That this is the Straight Forward forum...... The OP wanted to know if there is any connection between WHOI and the Woods Hole Shelter.....

I met Tillie when I stayed in that hostel.. She said that her family had a place at Martha's vinyard up north.. Her husband had some kind of environmental position back in the seventies.. He lived in the cabin, the hostel to study elk, which are now extinct in the region, I was wondering if maybe they founded the the Wood's hole institute up north as sort of another environmental thing....

Well, there could be a connection. You get to the Vineyard from Woods Hole. Perhaps they they liked it and named the hostel after Woods Hole, MA.

More info on Woods Hole, MA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_Hole,_Massachusetts

The "scientific community" was started in 1871

OK, since it's Woods Hole Hostel, not Wood's Hole Hostel and it's Woods Hole, MA and not Wood's Hole, MA. I say they, Tilly and her husband(if they frequented Martha's Vineyard), borrowed the name, especially since it's similar. WHOI just happens to be in Woods Hole, same as Woods Hole Research Center. I doubt the Wood's had anything to do with founding the research institutes.

I think its actually Wood's Hole Hostel, as it is Wood's Hole Shelter.
It is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

I think the trick would be to find out why the Wood family named their Hostel the Wood's Hole Hostel, rather than the Wood's Hostel. It could be that they got the name from Wood's Hole MA, and found it fitting because Hole is also used often for place names in woods, is it is place names in oceans. It could also be that there was already such a place name in Georgia, named after the family, before they even built the hostel or the shelter.

p.s. Sorry to Sly and everyone else about my posts yesterday.

Actually, it might be Woods Hole Hostel and Wood's Hole Shelter.

According to this plaque, its Wood's Hole Shelter, and the family name is Wood, nor Woods.
http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=5757&c=583

However, even plaques can be wrong, and its not uncommon for the apostrophe to be added or dropped from place names from time to time. From searching the internet, most people do seem to say Woods Hole Hostel and Woods Hole Shelter, but the plaque does say it differently.

Actually, it might be Woods Hole Hostel and Wood's Hole Shelter.

According to this plaque, its Wood's Hole Shelter, and the family name is Wood, nor Woods.
http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=5757&c=583

However, even plaques can be wrong, and its not uncommon for the apostrophe to be added or dropped from place names from time to time. From searching the internet, most people do seem to say Woods Hole Hostel and Woods Hole Shelter, but the plaque does say it differently.

LOL... Yeah, it seems GA has a way of screwing up signs. ;) Even the Wood's name their hostel Woods Hole, most likely meaning hole in the woods. :D

http://woodsholehostel.com/Home_Page.html.

Ok..
Seems i should set everyone straight.. even though this is a long lost post.. and no one will get the answer. Wood's Hole Hostel has absolutely NO correlation with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. When my grandparents discovered Wood's Hole in 1940.. it was called Shawnee's Hole.. after a family. We are surrounded on 3 sides by mountains and it feels like we are in a hole. Because my grandparents last name is Wood.. it became Wood's Hole.. a funny coincidence. I too think it ironic that my uncle has land next to Woods Hole, Mass.. but still no connection. Wood's Hole Shelter was built round about 1997. Minnie and Jerry Bowden had the shelter built. They wanted to donate the shelter in remembrance of my grandparents.. but shelters are No longer allowed to be named after PEOPLE.. so they decided to name it after the hostel... hence Woods Hole Shelter.
I hope i answered everyone's questions..
neville
p.s. I am continuing my grandmothers tradition of running Wood's Hole
and you can check us out at
www.woodsholehostel.com

I think I'm going to come to your hostel with only a set amount of money. Otherwise I'll blow my entire thru by spending a whole week of zeros in your sauna and getting massage therapy and smoothies and gourmet coffee!!!! (I'm so psyched right now...)