Senior of the Year - 2018

Carol was born at home, 4 Winslow Street in Provincetown, in 1942, and she laughs when she says ‘there were no complications but they still had my mother stay in bed for a week!”

Her mother, Emily Ramey, was the school secretary, and her father, Alton Ramey, was school superintendent. The family spent summers at Kalmar Village on Beach Point- which they owned. “It was magical,” Carol says. “I was free to roam, I could swim all the way out to the bars, and practically from the time I could walk, I had jobs, which I loved. I helped put the flag up every morning. Then I graduated to the laundry. I babysat. I had postage stamps in a little box. I graduated to the Coke machine, counting the money and loading the machine. Sometimes in the evening I would take care of the office, when my parents went over to Highland House for dinner.”

Carol went to Truro Central School for fifth and sixth grades, then Provincetown High School, and Bridgewater State Teachers College, after which she taught elementary school. Her family had moved  to Highland Road in Truro, “and the rest is history,” she says, again laughing with delight.

Her older sister Janet had met George Malcolm Mooney- who was part of a large Truro family- and they married in 1967. His older brother, Denis, stood up at the wedding.  Carol met Denis. Then Carol and Denis got married. And so the two brothers married the two sisters.

 In 1972 Carol and Denis moved to a house off Union Field Road, where Carol still lives. Carol was a full-time mother with full-time involvement in the family life of Truro. On Halloween her kids, Ann, Karen, and Kevin, sometimes changed costumes so they could go to Abby Tinkham’s house twice, because he had the best candy.

 Her daughter Karen is directly responsible for Carol’s dedication to Truro COA. Karen was helping Norman Rose with the ‘bread run’- going to P’Town twice a week to pick up the donated bread- but as Norman’s health declined and Karen took on more responsibilities, Carol began to help, and soon found herself doing the bread run, managing the monthly log, and a hundred other things.

 Her good friend Steve Roderick is indirectly responsible for Carol’s dedication to the Truro Library. She had gone to the library to hear a talk he was giving, sat next to Cathy van Stratum, whom she did not know, and by the end of the evening Cathy invited her to be on the Board. “I’d never been on a Board before, but suddenly – there I was! And it’s been eight or nine years now.” As corresponding secretary, she is meticulous about thanking people who donate items, money and /or time. In the summer, you might see her at the Library table at the Farmers Market, loving to watch young fathers sitting cross-legged on the Library blanket, reading story books to their children.

              Carol promotes the library and COA “big time” she says, because of their great staffs and the fine things they do for Truro. She is well-known for her kindness, her generosity, and her gracious, courteous nature.

 “I love Truro. I feel so fortunate to be here, to have grown up here, and raised my family here. “   It is citizens like Carol Mooney who help make Truro the place we all love.