1950s

Mrs. Jack – Art Collector, Muse, Mentor, and Mascot: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Boston Red Sox

Nov 1, 2024     On a Saturday evening in December of 1912, Dr. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, awaited the arrival of a most important patron.  He had learned during his tenure that he could not commence the evening’s program until Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner occupied her customary seat.  Even Dr. Muck, […]

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There Was Once a Place Called Lord’s

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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Midcentury Medfield Memories – Fishing, etc. at Kingsbury’s Pond

Oct 1, 2022   There was fear in the 1950s – of communist infiltrators, of the H-bomb, of mutations caused by radiation and of science.   On the humanistic level of how people treated others, there was sometimes the loss of dignity and sensitivity. More precisely, there was a fair amount of bullying taking place either

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Celebrating and Remembering Some of the Fads from 1950s and 60s — Part II

Feb 1, 2022     Continuing from last month, here’s some nostalgia for some of the great fads from the 1950s and 60s. Clothes, hairstyles, toys, and television shows all have their fifteen minutes of fame. The faddish 1960s turned out to be very productive years for the clothing and fashion industry. At Medfield High School

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