Wareham is gearing up to celebrate its history this summer, and the Summer of Celebration 2014 Committee has put together a souvenir calendar with photos from Wareham's past.

The pictures include cranberry bog workers from long ago, the first Armistice Day parade on Main Street and the Wickets Island of the past where a "spiritual healing hospital", built in the 1880s, was located until it burned down in 1981.

"We wanted to have a good representation of the town and some buildings that people will recognize that are still there, and some of the buildings that are historically important but no longer there," or have drastically altered exteriors, Deb McGonnell, co-chair of the subcommittee tasked with producing the calendars, explained.

Photos of some local landmarks, such as an undated photo of a tiny Onset Pier, are so starkly different from their current incarnations they're unrecognizable. Others, like the Tremont Nail Company and the Onset wigwam, look much the same today as they did years ago.

Photos were donated by the Wareham Free Library, the Falmouth Historical Society, Claire Smith,  and Wareham residents Marie Strawn and Winna Dean.

According to committee member Claire Smith, the larger committee delegates tasks to subcommittees, and Nora Bicki and McGonnell took the lead on the calendar project.

"They did all the running around, but everybody pitched in," says Smith. "They sat down, they put it together, [then] they brought it back to the committee."

"We had help with the historical captions from Lynda Ames and Barbara Bailey,” McGonnell noted. "We ran our captions by them and they helped flesh the captions out and give us a little more detail."

The calendar is one more piece of the very large summer of celebration.

"Everyone plays a role, no one person can take it all on,” Smith says. "It's massive."

Volunteers will be needed for everything from directing cars to changing trash cans when the festivities begin in the summer of 2014.

"We're going to have six weekends of fun things to do," says McGonnell.

There are 1,000 calendars for sale and they will be available at the town clerk's office, located in the town hall, beginning Tuesday, November 19.