From 1901, when the building of the Town Park had been completed, until 1931, the Draper Corporation sponsored field days at the park each August. Click here to see pictures of the 1929 field day.
“During the war years the grain often came in printed sacks. The goal was to get enough of the same print. Mom made curtains and a washing machine cover from the blue print ones. There was always the fear that the mice would chew a hole in the middle of the bag and it would only be good for a dish towel instead of a broomstick skirt or curtains, and we looked forward to each grain delivery to see the design and its condition.”
Click on the picture of Peggy in the corn field at the family farm on Hartford Avenue to read what life was like for the Byrne sisters and their brother back in the 1940s.
This event held 120 years ago this month, August 1904, was a very big deal. Click on the Locomobile ad to see what makes of cars were in the parade, and who was in them.
Click here to go to a page of pictures of highway department workers and equipment, starting in 1919.
Photos from the flood of August 1955. To see many more, click on picture 1 for Draper outside, 2 for Draper inside, 3 for Hopedale pond, 4 for Spindleville, and 5 for Mendon.
Thanks to Jane Lowell for an album of many Hopedale postcards that David had saved. This was a particularly interesting one, since it was written and mailed shortly after President William Howard Taft had stayed overnight at the Draper home on Adin Street, (August 18, 1910) with a picture of it on the card. Click on the picture to go to a page about that visit.
Hopedael? Well, close enough, I suppose.
Good to see that the Green Store/Community Bible Chapel isn’t going to be razed. This picture taken on August 6 shows a septic system being installed. The two men on the right, father and son, are the owners.
Steve Wilkinson practicing on the Community House lawn. He says it’s better to do it there than in his apartment.
Above the Quaboag River, West Brookfield, August 31.
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