WWI-era scrapbook opens a new
A gift to the Fort Devens Museum reveals a unexpected dimension of Devens and Ayer history. The gift from Regina Kim of Devens, a scrapbook of photos, news and clippings...
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WWI-era scrapbook opens new
A gift to the Fort Devens Museum reveals a unexpected dimension of Devens and Ayer history. The gift from Regina Kim of Devens, a scrapbook of photos, news and clippings...
WWI-era scrapbook opens new window
A gift to the Fort Devens Museum reveals a unexpected dimension of Devens and Ayer history. The gift from Regina Kim of Devens, a scrapbook of photos, news and clippings...
Ireland trip part III
The ordinary traveler probably wouldn't think of visiting a city, let alone a nation, just to observe its statues. But on our Elderhostel trip to Ireland last August, my wife,...
Home
Conclusion Not all delivery men brought food or drink to our West Newton home in the 1940s and 1950s. Perhaps as often as twice a month a commercial laundry truck...
Home
Part one of a two-part story Household goods salesmen and delivery men regularly stopped at my parents' home in West Newton when I was growing up in the late 1940s...
Climbing trees, part 2
For six years I was an assistant director at a summer camp for boys in central Vermont. While my wife and I were on the camp staff, our two sons...
Climbing Trees
I've come to cherish my few experiences in trees. A neighbor's backyard, a quick push away through a knee-high hedgerow from my parents' treeless home, brought me to my first...
School bell rings for schoolhouse restoration
Groton Historical Society GROTON -- Sawtell School or Chicopee School No. 7, Groton's only remaining one-room schoolhouse, now being restored, was just the right setting July 8 for a Groton...
Fort Devens Museum bids
Museum vice president DEVENS -- The board of directors and some friends of the Fort Devens Museum gave Ian Meisner, the museum's former executive director, heartfelt thanks and a cordial...