John was born in Scotland in 1947. Later, his family moved to Canada, and then to the U.S. He graduated from Hopedale High School in 1966. John and his two brothers served with the Army in Vietnam, where he was killed in 1970. Click here to read more about him.
Last month’s page had a picture of the Grafton Congregational Church with an interesting steeple. Here’s another – the Mendon Unitarian Church. The steeple in Grafton has a clock. The one in Mendon has a bell. The bell was originally in Hopedale. Click here for the story on that.
Gravestone for Ebenezer and Anna Thwing Draper. Click on the picture to read about them.
Pistol and skeet shooting were once very popular in Hopedale. The Pistol and Rifle Club is still active, but skeet is long gone. Click on the skeet article to go to a page about shooting sports in Hopedale/
Thanks to Debbie Glazer for this. For more on Aerosmith, click above.
Click on the picture above to see recent information about the West Street land situation, and about the proposal to increase the Select Board from three members to five. It’s in the second textbox on the page.
A fuzzy picture of the fire station I took while walking to the November 18 town meeting.
Hopedale Pond – November 22
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