Tim Flaherty

Midcentury Medfield Memories: Party Like It’s 1959

Mar 17, 2018  Editor’s note: Do YOU have stories and memories to share?  Send us an email!  Can you imagine a litter of kittens being born under a swirling and noisy washing machine? That’s what happened underneath the Kenmore washing machine in Mama Flaherty’s kitchen back in 1959. She could hear from the squealing that […]

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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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Midcentury Medfield Memories: Redemption and Legacy for the 1961 Medfield High Football Team

Oct 30, 2017      The Medfield Warriors were just coming off their second dramatic win over the Apponequet High School football team in Lakeville, Mass. in the November of 1961. Trailing at the half, Coach Ed Keyes entered the locker room and stood in the middle of us and spoke firmly. With anger in

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Midcentury Medfield Memories: Route 109, Medfield — Main Street, USA

Aug 29, 2017  Main Street was the first street in Medfield, long before it was Route 109. It’s gone from being an unpaved pathway to a partially paved road with tracks (the street railway operated 1899-1924) to the one of the most heavily-traveled roads in Massachusetts, partially resurfaced this month. The first automobile in Medfield,

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Midcentury Memories: The Times of Our Lives

Jan 31, 2017   Good morning, yesterdayYou wake up and time has slipped awayAnd suddenly it’s hard to findThe memories you left behindRemember, do you remember?~ Paul Anka It used to be that Medfield was sometimes referred to by Bostonians and surrounding towns as out in the country, a bedroom town where the working people only

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