Medfield

74 Harding Street: Underground Railroad Stop For Sale

Nov 1, 2022   Editor’s note; At this writing, this house is actively on the market, but some prospective buyers are in serious negotiation, according to realtor Dennis J. Folan. As the house that is bursting with history, it literally can’t stop talking. Today it sits majestically on the knoll at 74 Harding Street, nestled behind […]

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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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His Great Granddaughter Writes About E.V. Mitchell, Medfield’s Hatter

June 1, 2022   Edwin Vinald (E.V.) Mitchell (1850-1917) was the grandfather of my mother, Suzanne Mitchell Bryce, better known by everyone as “Sue.”  No Mrs. anything, just “Sue.”  In her youth, she was also known as “Sue the Swimmer” for her trophies; once she received a congratulatory note addressed simply to “Sue the Swimmer, Hyannis,

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