1960s

One Hundred Years of Civil Defense: From Spotting Enemy Aircraft to “Duck and Cover” and Managing Any Kind of Emergency in Medfield

July 1, 2020  A copy of the 50-page 1964 Medfield Civil Defense Operations Plan recently turned up at the historical society. It was prepared by the CD director, Austin Chilson “Buck” Buchanan, Medfield’s CD director from 1958 to 1975 and a Medfield Renaissance man. Much more on the remarkable Buck Buchanan later. The concept of

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Midcentury Medfield Memories: The Collegiates vs. The Greasers II

Feb 24, 2020  Fast Times at Medfield High School – Part II   In 1963 at Medfield High School two distinctive groups of teens showed their separate ideas of our culture as related to education, music, fashion, and legacy – the college-bound Collegiates versus the blue-collar trade-bound Greasers. Some of the culture was shaped by rebellious

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Midcentury Medfield Memories: The Collegiates vs. The Greasers I

Jan 20, 2020  Fast Times at Medfield High School – Part I   In 1963 at Medfield High School two distinctive groups of teens showed their separate ideas of our culture as related to education, music, fashion, and legacy – the college-bound Collegiates versus the blue-collar trade-bound Greasers. A somewhat similar split between the Mods and

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Midcentury Medfield Memories: Faraway Places with Strange-Sounding Names

Mar 27, 2019  How the Vietnam War Changed America We are now nearly 50 years beyond the end of the Vietnam War and continue to celebrate the lives of young soldiers who gave their lives and to those who returned to Medfield. This story calls attention to those brave patriots who served honorably in the

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Remembering Father’s Day: “The Child is the Father of the Man”

May 31, 2018  On June 17th we celebrate Father’s Day. For many men, we will one day become the striking image through our personal qualities of that very man who helped bring us into the world, even if there isn’t a strong physical resemblance. It might be the way fathers hold a steering wheel of

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Midcentury Medfield Memories: A Rite of Passage

Feb 8, 2018  The town of Medfield has undergone a tremendous change from its past. Medfield Day is a relatively recent development. In the early 1960s, the town was undergoing a different kind of celebration, something more attuned to a rite of passage. Boston in the 1960s had a changing population, as people from the

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