Nov 1, 2024 In 1962, there was a lot of optimism in Medfield over the high school football team’s prospects. Practically the whole team from the 1961 squad was back and ready to play. The freshmen of last season were now about to enter our sophomore year, but before classes began the Medfield Warriors were […]
Oct 1, 2024 It was the summer of 1961, and I was sitting comfortably at the top of the huge apple tree that was in the back yard of my family’s home on Pleasant Street. I even put a small cushion at the top where several branches converged. It was summertime, and the living was
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Mar 1, 2024 It was December 1963, and the most listened to song on AM radio was I Want to Hold Your Hand by the Beatles, a not-yet-famous British rock group. That recording had a lasting effect on American music history. Everyone has their favorite Beatles song, but I Want to Hold Your Hand got
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Oct 1, 2023 While most Americans today can’t fathom the thought of hitchhiking, many people at an earlier time would routinely stick out their thumbs on the side of the road. There were many different reasons that led people to hitchhike and why hitchhiking became acceptable. Hitchhiking was once a common form of getting
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Jul 31, 2023 Once cosmopolitans who thought themselves sophisticated, might have asked, “Medfield? Where’s that? What’s that?” And many of the young people living in Medfield were chagrined by the frequent snide remarks about Medfield being Deadfield or Mudfield. Times change. Gradually the transplanted city people came to recognize a bustling community after driving down
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Jun 2, 2023 The Memorial Day parade in Medfield has always been a festive occasion. Historically speaking, the holiday celebration would start with Clifford Gerald Doucette. Gerry was Medfield’s veterans’ agent, past American Legion commander, key member of the Medfield Memorial Day Committee and Committee to Study Memorials, and a prime mover in getting the
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May 2, 2023 Who could ever forget the Horgan twins, Jimmy and Joey, who grew up in an antique Greek Revival house at the corner of North and Cottage Streets, now the site of Rockland Trust bank? Jimmy passed away from a long illness on August 22, 2015. Joey passed away December 21, 2019. Their
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Feb 1, 2023 From February 5 to 7, 1978, the Blizzard of ‘78 hit New England. It started later and was much more powerful than most local meteorologists had anticipated. In the preceding days, weather centers knew something was coming, but they just couldn’t make up their minds about how much. Meteorologist Harvey Leonard from
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Jan 1, 2023 My grandfather, Joe Marcionette (1901-1991) gave us memories of the way things used to be! He was an incredible man and larger than life figure. Joe was a town selectman in the 50s and 60s, and he enjoyed the office and position immensely. He also owned the Jenny gas station, now the
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Nov 1, 2022 [Editor’s note: Tim Flaherty wrote about Medfield’s extended Palumbo family in the July/August Portal. This addendum about Bruno Palumbo contains information about his World War II service which was not available when the original story was written.] My uncle Bruno Palumbo was the third from the youngest of the 10 children of
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