One of the truly rewarding aspects of our work here at the Historical Society, and in particular for the team that is working to catalog and put our collection online, is the connections that we are helping others make – with families and with people who share interests in things historical. One of those came…
We were so happy with how the automatic text recognition worked on the 1971 history book I went back and did a pass over the 1921 Gutteridge book. It, also, worked pretty well and I have uploaded the book with the text. For those who don’t know what I’m yabbering about, the documents we are…
We’ve just completed the digitization of nearly 40 video tapes in our collection. The majority of these are recordings of various Society programs, but some document interesting events from our town’s history. If you have a videotape of historically significant event / subject / person related to Maynard, please let us know about it…
If any of our readers had visited the Society in the past 10 years or so while we were still in the lower level of Maynard Town Hall you might have noticed some fairly large wooden structures tucked in the corner collecting dust. These were pieces of a loom that came from a Fairfield Street…
Peg Brown has kindly supplied the slides she used for her January 2009 presentation on maps of Maynard. We had a number of people ask for them at our February meeting, so here they are! Download a PDF version of the Mapping Maynard Slides (16MB)
Through a odd twist of fate, the Maynard Historical Society (and, for the most part, I) managed to become a highly cited resource for the Boston Post Cane – a tradition that started in 1909 as part of a publicity stunt for the now defunct newspaper. We published Ralph Sheridan’s article about losing and finding…
In this podcast Dave Griffin discusses one of the more significant historical books in the collection: a 1930 appraisal of the properties held by the American Woolen Company. Maynard Historical Society Podcast #9 While the Mill and the town were founded by Amory Maynard, as Amory grew older and infirm a new management scheme for…
Cindy Mello is writing a research paper and would like some help. She writes: I’m doing a research paper for a business college class that’s due in two weeks and I could use your assistance. The paper is entitiled “The Evolution of the Maynard Mill and It’s Impact on the Town”. In addition to the…