1950s

Big Shot: A Memoir and Brief History of The Life and Times of Joseph L. Marcionette

Jun 1, 2025   My fond recollections of Joseph Marcionette, who always insisted being called Joe, go back to 1952 when I was just about 5 years of age. Joe and my grandmother, Marguerite lived up on Farm Street in Medfield very close to the town of Dover. He was actually my step-grandfather, my father’s step-father. […]

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Cold Weather Revives Rocky Woods Memories

Feb 1, 2025   For long-time Medfield residents who came of age during the 40-year span of the Rocky Woods skating program, the sadness that resulted from its closure in the winter of 1982-83 still reverberates around town – especially given the recent stretch of freezing weather that prompted a posting of memories on social media.

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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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