Medfield

Coyotes in Medfield: If You Can’t Beat Them… Then Feed Them?

May 1, 2021   Farmers from Dedham first settled Medfield in 1949, only 29 years after the Mayflower landed. The colony had grown rapidly through immigration and reproduction after 1630, and in William S. Tilden’s History of Medfield, the population was reported as 18,000 in 1643. The influx forced settlers to look west for grazing land

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Discovering Medfield’s Connection to Hinsdale, Massachusetts

April 1, 2021   Serendipity is a curious thing. While setting final plans to visit the Berkshires, I received an email telling me of “talk” on Facebook about one Israel Bissell, an American patriot who, like Paul Revere, was a post rider during the American Revolution, but performed a much more impressive, yet lesser known, ride

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Happy Birthday! How Spanish Culture Celebrates Sweet 16 and Going Back to the Classroom in Autumn of 2020

Jan 4, 2021   Who can deny the appeal and tradition of a big, beautiful Spanish piñata? They come in mostly all bright colors and sizes, the most popular being a colorful donkey. The idea behind the fun of the piñata is to fill it with chocolate and other candies and popcorn balls made with butter

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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Medfield and Millis – Part IV

Sept 1, 2020   Linda Morse, formerly of Medfield, teaches history at the Foxboro Regional Charter School. This history of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, focusing on its impact in Medfield and Millis, will be serialized in The Portal. Her complete article is being published in the New England Journal of History. There are striking parallels

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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Medfield and Millis – Part III

August 1, 2020   Linda Morse, formerly of Medfield, teaches history at the Foxboro Regional Charter School. This history of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, focusing on its impact in Medfield and Millis, will be serialized in The Portal. Her complete article is being published in the New England Journal of History. There are striking parallels

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