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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Medfield and Millis – Part II

July 1, 2020   Linda Morse, formerly of Medfield, teaches history at the Foxboro Regional Charter School. This history of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, focusing on its impact in Medfield and Millis, will be serialized in The Portal. Her complete article is being published in the New England Journal of History. There are striking parallels […]

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Aftermath: Memories of the Way Things Came to Be

May 30, 2020   The Coronavirus pandemic is far from the only deadly phenomenon that the town of Medfield has had to deal with throughout the years. Many longtime residents remember Hurricane Carol that hit New England back in the late summer of 1954, some 16 years after the sneak attack Hurricane of 1938 (Category 5!)

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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Medfield and Millis – Part I

May 30, 2020   Linda Morse, formerly of Medfield, teaches history at the Foxboro Regional Charter School. This history of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, focusing on its impact in Medfield and Millis, will be serialized in The Portal. Her complete article is being published in the New England Journal of History. There are striking parallels

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Unlikely Heroes in a Strange Land: How Medfield is Fast Tracking the Coronavirus

Mar 31, 2020   “What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening?” It feels as if these lines from the musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, apply to the deadly corona virus. We don’t know the origin of this virus. Some have suggested a zoonic process, where the virus may have jumped from an animal to human. Did it

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Midcentury Medfield Memories: The Collegiates vs. The Greasers II

Feb 24, 2020  Fast Times at Medfield High School – Part II   In 1963 at Medfield High School two distinctive groups of teens showed their separate ideas of our culture as related to education, music, fashion, and legacy – the college-bound Collegiates versus the blue-collar trade-bound Greasers. Some of the culture was shaped by rebellious

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DeSorgher Spoke to Packed House on King Philip’s Attack

Feb 24, 2020  Town Historian Richard DeSorgher addressed a packed house Feb. 3 as he explained the causes and events of the deadliest war in New England and Medfield history. The core issues were land disputes resulting in loss of native lands due to what the natives saw as the colonists’ land theft, the population

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Midcentury Medfield Memories: The Collegiates vs. The Greasers I

Jan 20, 2020  Fast Times at Medfield High School – Part I   In 1963 at Medfield High School two distinctive groups of teens showed their separate ideas of our culture as related to education, music, fashion, and legacy – the college-bound Collegiates versus the blue-collar trade-bound Greasers. A somewhat similar split between the Mods and

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