Kingdom Hall on Plain Street. It was erected in three days in 1991. Click on the picture for the story.
Hester lived at 54 Freedom Street from the age of 15 to shortly before her death at the age of 100. She was probably the last person living who could remember attending the dedication of the General Draper statue in 1912. The first tv in the area was seen at her house. Click on Hester’s picture for more of her memories.
“Many people had boats and canoes, and on weekends they might be seen paddling or rowing about the pond.” Charles Merrill, Hopedale As I Found It.
The picture below was painted by Janice Rodriguez, based on what you can see by the right side of the one above.
Thanks to Ken Wood of Upton for this picture. The George Draper Lodge was the Hopedale lodge of the Knights of Pythias. On the Knights’ website I found that they had established camps. “…where disadvantaged children can retreat from often improvised cities and experience first-hand the awe and wonder of nature.” Evidently the Hopedale lodge had helped to support the one shown here. I have no idea where it was. As for the term “improvised cities,” what??? Impoverished, maybe they meant to say.
Not long after this parade was held, contruction of the Draper Gym began on the lot on the left side of this picture. Click here to read about it.
Doves in a pear tree. I took the pictures through my living room window on April 13. The house design is for robins, but only doves have used it. Last year they first appeared on May 8, and the hatchlings arrived on May 28. This year they were here on the morning of April 14, but were gone by noon.
If you’d like to make a shuttle lamp like this, I have three shuttles, and a base that I’d give you. You can contact me using the email address near the bottom of the homepage. Click the picture to see directions on how to make it.
For an easier project, they can be used to make candle sconces.
Deer are a fairly common sight at Hopedale Village Cemetery. Here is one of two that I saw there on April 19.
Last graduation of Mendon High School – June 1960, Mendon Unitarian Church. Nipmuc Regional High School opened in September of that year. The picture is one of a large number taken from Milford News negatives given to me recently by Jane Lowell. I’ve converted 70 to positives, and put most of them on three pages on this site. Click here to see photos of Nipmuc Regional in the early ’60s, here for miscellaneous pictures of Mendon in the 1960s, and here for pictures from very old glass negatives taken who knows where.
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Hopedale in April 2024
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