While cleaning out my mother's apartment I came across an autographed book called South Shore Town by Elizabeth Coatsworth, wife of author Henry Beston (of Outer Most House fame).   Elizabeth lived at 31 Ship Street, Hingham for two decades I think.  Bill [Quinn] and Joe [Daly]probably played hopscotch on her front lawn.   Written in 1948, it's full of great Hingham anecdotes and stories.  Did you know that gypsies arrived during WWII, lived on Crow Point and some worked at the ship yard.

 Did you know that the islands Ragged, Sarah and Langley were named after, you guessed it, ragged Sarah Langley.  Sarah was a poor fisherman's beautiful  daughter who lived on one of the islands.  She was often seen selling fish at Broad Cove.  A Dr. Ezekiel  Hersey found her, taught her manners and educated her.  He also married Sarah.  Sarah was widowed but managed to remarry the wealthy and prominent Mr. Derby.  Widowed again Sarah lived to be a wealthy old lady and left a bequest to found Derby Academy.  Of course I could do a Google search to 

Ms. Coatsworth refers to various town highlights, especially steamships (Steamboat Lane), clamming, sailing and fishing.  There was a time a whale swam into the harbor but locals jumped into their dories and forced the whale to turn and swim out to sea.

Did you ever hear of the Kickaboo section of town?  It was a little enclave of fishermen on Green Street and Green Street Court.  The author devotes a chapter to it and she rented "the smallest house", as she calls it on a Green St. Court to do some of her writing.  I checked Zillow and found a one bedroom house with 600 square feet.

Several references are made to skating on Bucket Mill (Cushing)  and Triphammer ponds.  Coatsworth  describes some boys playing a game on ice with sticks.  She calls the endeavor ice polo.  I think that's what happened to Peter [McGuirk] -- he played ice polo while the rest of us played hockey.

Oh hell, get the book and read it yourself!