Hopedale Pond - January 2. Click here to see what the pond looked like during the first week of 2011. |
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The Parklands forestry project got underway off of Overdale Parkway on January 2. Click here to see more pictures of the work. |
That's frost on my window. Nine degrees and the furnace wasn't working when we got up this morning. Fortunately it was taken care of by 10 and the house hadn't cooled much. |
That's Adin Ballou's desk. He did an amazing amount of writing there. It's in the trustees' room at the Bancroft Library. It was donated to the library in 1918 by Mrs. George H. Davis. |
Neighboring town photo for January - This is a cranberry bog, under construction. There was an article about it in the Milford News a while ago, which I'd link to but I haven't been able to find it. The bog is on Milford Street/Route 16, across from Taylor Rental. An 1885 report on agriculture in Mendon says that there were 71 acres of cranberry bogs in town at that time. |
The Hersey stone in Hopedale Village Cemetery. Heman Hersey, an employee of Henry Patrick's Store, was said to be the last person in Hopedale to have smallpox. That was in 1901. The stone shows that he survived the smallpox, not dying until 1963 at the age of 87. Click here to read about Heman and the Pest House. |
Collecting deposit containers for Little League baseball - January 7. |
Accident scene - Dutcher Street between Elm and Lower Jones - Saturday evening - January 7. Click here for the Milford News story on the accident. |
Hey, that's me at the library, going through a pile of town reports. Thanks for the picture, Sara. |
Nice ice, but not safe yet - January 16. |
The 17th. - seems like this always happens. Above - morning. To the right - afternoon. By the 18th the snow was gone and the ice looked as good as it did on the 16th. A little more snow on the night of 19-20. |
Setting sun shines on snowy shingles. |
Dutcher Street - A few inches of snow on the 21st. |
Hopedale Pond on January 22. |
Hopedale Pond on January 24, when the temperature reached 57 degrees. |
Friday, January 27, warm and heavy rain. |
Spindleville Pond, January 29 - a little ice, but mostly open water. |
Adin Ballou's desk, New England Magazine, April 1891. |