Our planned speaker for tonight’s program on Emerson Hospital is unable to be here tonight due to an unforeseen personal matter. We hope to reschedule Kenton for a future meeting. We will be offering an alternative program.
On Monday, June 17th, the Maynard Historical Society will present a program on the history of the Maynard Public Schools. Starting at 7pm, the program will take place in the Maynard High School Library and will be one of, if not the last, public event to take place in the High School, which is slated…
For our February 27th meeting the Maynard Historical Society will have David Mark read from his recently published book “MAYNARD: History and Life Outdoors.” The book is available in local stores, and will also be for sale at the meeting. Mark brought his years of experience as a writer and scientist to create this fact-populated…
Here are the slides from Roy Helander’s presentation on Maynard’s Finnish Temperance Society, “Alku”. The slides include the timeline Roy talked about and the numerous photographs from source materials. The slides are in PDF format which requires the Adobe PDF reader. Click here to download the slides (16MB, PDF).
After a short update on the Society’s collection, Roy Helander will recount the chronology of Alku, Maynard’s Finnish Temperance Society. Before the rise of mass media, groups like the temperance societies formed the base of social life with meetings, activities, sports events, talks, drama groups, music. We hope you can join us at the Library…
We had our November meeting yesterday. David Mark and Peg Brown teamed up to present the history of the Marble Farm and the families that called it home (Marble, Whitney, and Parmenter). The Marble Farm is the oldest surviving house foundation in Maynard (the building burned to the ground in 1924). Earlier this year an…
Happy New Year. Our first meeting of 2011 is scheduled for Monday, January 24th at 7pm in the lower level of Maynard Town Hall (195 Main Street). Our program this month will be about banking in Maynard. Patty Chambers from Middlesex Savings Bank and a representative from Digital Federal Credit Union will review the…