“Tootsie” grew up in Milford, but lived for all her adult life in Hopedale. She worked at the Hopedale Pharmacy, at the Larches, and at the Hopedale Senior Center. Click on her picture to see her many memories of life in the old days.
Trolley bridge over Hopedale Pond. “Enthusiasm Everywhere.” Click on the picture for the story of the first trip of the Milford and Uxbridge Street Railway.
Paddling the Charles on June 1. Click photo to see more.
Clipping from the Milford News. Nice to see that the “famous official executioner” entertained the orphans (as the saying goes, you can’t make this stuff up), but the story is here because the execution that he was in Massachusetts for has a Hopedale connection. Norma Brighton Millen had lived in Hopedale for a year, when her father was a minister here. The case was a very big deal, and the trial was held at the Dedham courthouse. Not the last time for that. Click here to see the Norma Millen story. It’s halfway down the page.
Thanks to Jane Lowell for this little item. A button hook, maybe? I remember Bowker’s as a clothng store in Milford, but long before my time it was in Hopedale. The ad below comes from the 1918 Milford-Hopedale directory
Another Hopedale High School. Hopedale, Illinois. Click on the picture to go to a page about other Hopedales.
The recently opened 3,000-foot floating boardwalk on Lake Williams in Marlboro. Click here to read about it.
Osprey by the Taunton River in Berkley – June 15.
Band concerts will start next week. Tonight (June 19) it was DJ Mike entertaining. Lots of little bubbles in the picture above, and a few big ones below.
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