Of the many items he brought with him to display at the Wareham Historical Society’s Onset Memories, presenter Will Sheehy said he and his cousin had the most fun with the cannonball he found in his mother’s raspberry patch.

“My cousin and I would sit at the top of the hill at my mother’s, and my cousin and I would roll it down to the car,” Sheehy said.

Sheehy gave a short, informal presentation about his memories of living in Onset. He said he was quite the collector and amateur archaeologist, owning more than 10,000 glass bottles when he was younger.

He said he even ventured so far as to dumpster dive for treasures when his family cleaned out his grandmother’s house and threw away most of her older belongings.

“Stamps, arrowheads, coins – I collected everything,” Sheehy said. “I would go into houses. I would go everywhere.”

Sheehy said his family ran the old Glen Cove and the Onset Hotel, which is where he got most of the porcelain items he brought to display.

"That was all family stuff," Sheehy said.

Sheehy said he even got into a bit of a sticky situation, when he went back to the old site of the Onset Hotel, to dig around in the basement for old bottles. He said he ran into a security guard he didn't know was there.

"All of a sudden, the guy goes, 'Freeze! What are you doing, you ... fool?'" Sheehy remembered. "That security guard was so nice. He would lay [the bottles] all out on the lawn for me ... and go, 'Well, here's your bottles.'"