Hopedale in June 2019

We milked twelve or fourteen cows. There was the mean mother cow and

mean Julia and gentle

Daisy and Cleopatra to name a few. Dad sold the

milk to Coffin’s Dairy in Mendon. We stored the

milk in twenty-quart cans in

the spring house, a small outbuilding with a sunken soapstone well

cooled

by cold spring water until it went to Coffin’s to be bottled and delivered.

We also had a workhorse called Dick. When Dick was tired he would just head to the barn and if

you were riding him you had to jump off or duck to keep from bumping your head on the barn door

lintel.

Where was this farm, and whose memories are these?

to find out.

Real estate site with interior photos of 1 Northrop Street.

Real estate page with photos of 56 Mendon Street.

Separation from Milford

From the Hopedale Centennial cookbook.

Hopedale in June 2019

Hopedale in June 2018

Hopedale in May 2019

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This is an item for sale on Ebay. Why Hopedale pillow covers? I have

no idea, but also on Ebay you can find Hopedale as part of the name for

bookcases, storage cabinets, pendant lights, vanity lights, table lamps,

curtain panels, beds, shirts, pants and boots. Of course there are many

other items with obvious connections to

the various Hopedales

, but for

these goods I can't figure where the name comes from.

Thanks to my son, DJ, for sending

video of a ferry

that goes to Hopedale, Labrador.

for more on the other Hopedales.

Click for Sailor Jerri - Hallelujah Veterans Version

Thanks to Sheila Thayer for sending it.

Anyone who was there that night want to write their memories

of it for me to add here? Anyone? Anyone??? I'm sure we must

be beyond the statute of limitations.

Alcohol in Hopedale

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June 1972

Click to read about Rico's and Patrick's.

It could be yours.

Managed by the elastic fabric man, William Lapworth.

Here are a few pictures I took on June 1 when DJ

and

I

paddled a few miles

up the Charles in Waltham.

For my birthday this year, (78) my

brother Ted took me to

Portsmouth, Rhode Island for a six-mile

trip pedaling the little rail

car you see us on here. They're run by a

company called

. After that

,

we

walk

ed around

Newport for a while and

then had a nice dinner.

Thanks for a

memorable day, Ted.

No, that's not us.

D-Day landing, June 6, 1944. Click here for video.

I took these pictures of lady slippers in the

(west

side) on June 4. It's a short season for them. They flower for

about two weeks. You might find one or two on the east side,

but many more on the west. I saw more this time than I've

ever seen in the past. I don't know if there really are more, or

maybe I was just paying better attention.

to see

many more lady slipper photos from the same day.

for the Wildflowers in Hopedale menu.

Today, June 4, is the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 1

9

th amendment

by the Senate. It had passed the House in May. Fourteen months later it

became law when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it. (Eventually all

states passed it, with Mississippi jumping on the bandwagon in 1984.)

As you can see in the Milford News article, when the National League of

Women Voters unveiled a tablet honoring those who had made the passage

possible,

of Hopedale was one of six Massachusetts women

whose name was on it.

I haven't been able to find a better photo of the tablet

than the one you see here.

for more on the campaign for women's

suffrage in Hopedale.

to see the rest of the story of a murder-suicide

in June 1969 involving one of the Hopedale Drapers.

Thanks to Ann Lamontagne at the Milford History Museum,

Memorial Hall, for this photo of a Draper baseball team.

Fairy walk in the Parklands - June 8.

to see many more photos.

I think they were happy that I let my lawn get longer than

usual. The rabbit, especially, spent a lot of time eating.

Worcester Tornado - June 9, 1953

June 1752 - the Franklin kite in a thunderstorm

experiment.

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for the story in detail.

Here's a hit from 1965, Barry McGuire - Eve of Destructio n.

The sign is down. Goodby Rite Aid, hello Walgreens.

There's been some recent work on the

roadbed going toward

. This picture was taken on June 23 from near the

parking lot, looking toward

over

Hopedale Street

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75 Dutcher Street for sale.

to see inside on realtor.com.

DJ told me that Acorn Street on Beacon Hill, shown

here in a photo he took on

June 24, is said to be

one of the most photographed streets in the country.

Below - two more photos he sent. (taken on the 26th) The Wayfair walkout in

front of Trinity Church, and the Harriet Tubman statue titled Step on Board at

Harriet Tubman Park in the South End.

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Band concert - June 26.

To read the notice,

go to the G&U site

where there's a link to it.

Evidently not. i wrote that at
the beginning of the month,
but now it's gone.