High Roads and Low Roads (Tours)- Route 9 Notes about Travel: It took me 113 minutes to get there, passing through the French River Valley, which was beautiful. I also passed through Thompson, which was definitely an old mill town. . The total distance was 53.8 miles. I left my house in Maynard, snaked around …
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When trying to figure out what to do next with my box of letters, my original thought was to travel to some of the spots in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut via the train. But when I started to do some research some of the spots, I found that they were rather large cities, …
In my job, I am in charge of the science and social studies curriculum for the Weston Public Schools. The state puts out a series of curriculum “frameworks” that describes what students should be learning in particular grades. In both the science and social studies framework, there are also “practices”, which are the skills that …
For the past almost nine years, I have lived in Maynard, a little town on the banks of the Assabet. After living in colonial Concord for almost a quarter of a century, the nearest we get to any Revolutionary topics is on the morning of Patriots day when the Stow Minutemen march by my house …
In the box of letters that I “inherited”, there was one crucial piece of evidence that provided me with some information about where my Grandfather worked. It was a green piece of paper, called “Route List” Under the title, it explained “I will call for mail and telegrams at the following addresses on the dates …
On Friday, February 7th, I took a different kind of trip – not involving Sage, my car, but rather an airplane, to Richmond, Virginia, to visit by dear friend Nancy. I was excited to see her, and due to a small green piece of paper that I had found amongst my Grandfather’s letter, I knew …
1929 was a turning point in my Grandparents’ lives. It was the year they met. It was the year that they spent a lot of time apart. It was the year that they fell in love. But the curious thing is that in 1929, the largest financial crisis ever hit the United States. Yet, in …
Tobacco This was to be a different type of trip – it didn’t involve a letter and it didn’t involve a hotel. Rather, it was more based off a memory of my Mother’s – that she had visited a tobacco field with her Father when she was a little girl. She thought it was in …
June 6, 1929: I have worked quite hard today for I put in three large displays, one of those took me over three hours, the others a little over two, besides making a few calls on several customers. On a partially foggy mid-September morning, I set off to officially end my 1929 Journey. Finally, the …
“But as any good historian would do, I still have questions. First, the letterhead had it in New Bedford. Why wouldn’t it be Westport? Second, I would think with this type of view, my Grandfather would had written something about the scenery, but there was nothing about the scenery. So, while dipping my feet in …
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