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.

For our April 25th meeting the Maynard Historical Society will present the history of Emerson Hospital, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.  Our guest speaker is Kenton Blagbrough.

The hospital was founded in 1911 when Charles Emerson (a nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson) donated $20,000 and a site along the Sudbury River in Concord for a 14-bed cottage hospital. Formerly known as Deaconess Hospital, in 1924 the hospital was deeded to the community and renamed in honor of Charles Emerson. Today Emerson Hospital is a 179-bed acute care medical center providing advanced medical services to over 300,000 individuals in 25 towns.

Kenton Blagbrough is an employee and volunteer at Emerson Hospital. He holds masters degrees in History and Information Studies. He recently researched a property history which is included on the National Register for Historic Places, and the two hundred year status of an old New Hampshire road used in a civil proceeding.

Mr. Blagbrough, under the direction of the Medical Library and Office of Development, is researching the history of Emerson Hospital to prepare a written account for the hospital’s centennial in November 2011.

The Maynard Historical Society meets in the lower level of Maynard Town Hall, 195 Main Street.  The meeting starts at 7pm and are open to the public.  A social hour with Light refreshments follows the meeting.   There is no charge for the meeting.

The Maynard Historical Society will be meeting on Monday, March 28th at 7pm in the lower level of Maynard Town Hall (195 Main Street).

March is our annual meeting which means we will have a slightly longer than normal business meeting with some short reports and election of the trustees.  (15-20 minutes tops)

After the business meeting we will screen a video which deals with how a mill town in Vermont dealt with the Civil War.  There are a number of parallels to Maynard in the program and we thought it would be an interesting program for our members.

Next month: We are pleased to host a program celebrating the 100th anniversary of Emerson Hospital.  More details on this will be posted soon.

A quick reminder and invitation to all to join us at our February meeting in Monday the 28th starting at 7pm in the lower level of Maynard Town Hall (195 Main Street).

We will have a short business meeting to update folks on the activities in the Society which will be followed by a program.

This month we are screening a video of some of the earliest motion pictures every made in Massachusetts.

As always the public is invited and is free of charge.  Light refreshments and a social hour will follow the program.

I’m currently preparing for tonight’s Maynard Historical Society meeting (7pm, Town Hall). Tonight’s program is a new version of the popular Maynard Picture Puzzle we debuted a couple of years ago. How well do *you* know Maynard landmarks?   Come and take the test!