This is where the church circus was in 1912. Looks rather different now, though. Click here to see what it looked like back then. |
Click here to read about the tragic addident. |
The Legion Home was bought by the Mallard family, and as stated in the article, moved and attached to their house, behind the post office. Click here to read and see more on that. |
Click here for more on The Lookout, where the cabins were. |
Click here for more on the Dutcher Street School. |
Some of the changes, mentioned in the August 1912 article above, can be seen by comparing the drawing from 1904 with the one from 1913, including the removal of the old office building. That was done after the building of the new main office, now Atria Draper Place. |
Looks like a TruGreen convention on Tammie Road. |
I hadn't seen that locomotive before today. (August 1) Actually I've been hearing the trains, but not seeing them as much as I used to. They seem to come and leave, not spending as much time here as they once did. |
Our daily visitor staying behind St. Francis for protection. When pears fall to the ground, as they have been for a couple of weeks, if he gets to them before I do, he has a pretty good lunch. |
Hopedale in August 2016 More photos will be added during the month. Hopedale in July 2016 Hopedale history ezine for August 1 - Field Day, 1922 Ezine for mid-August - Park and Pond, 1940s Ezine Menu HOME . |
Yes, there he is, finishing off a pear. |
Since this showed up on ebay just a few weeks after the Gannett auction, it seems likely that's where it came from. |
But if old ID cards aren't your thing, maybe this ebay item is. |
The Autobiography of Adin Ballou, Annotated Edition, was published this week. This edition is the result of 25 years of research by Lynn Gordon Hughes, the foremost authority on Adin Ballou and the Hopedale Community. Here is part of a description of the book from Amazon.
illuminate the people, places, relationships, literary allusions, religious movements, and popular culture that made up Ballou’s world - A complete bibliography of Ballou’s writings, including a guide to online editions - Two articles by Ballou, written 40 years apart, describing his role in the formation of the Restorationist denomination - The full text of the correspondence between Ballou and Leo Tolstoy, newly compiled from the two published sources.
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If you're living in New England and you like lobster, you can be happy that you can get it cheaper than Richard Bodreau. Richard, who grew up in the Water Cure House on Hopedale Street, is now living in Oregon. He put the picture above on Facebook this week. I asked if it would be okay to put it here, along with what he wrote about his annual lobster from New England meal. Here's his reply. Dear Friend Dan Malloy, Thanks for all you do to keep our memories of growing up in Hopedale alive my friend. Sure, go ahead and share my Facebook post with the folks in Hopedale and surrounding. At age 66 and retired I must get my Maine Lobster and Oliva's Market Italian cold cuts need quenched every year. I must have my annual token fix of good ole fresh Maine Lobster and Italian cold cuts quenched once or some times twice a year. You just can't get it here in the Northwest. I place an overnight shipment order at Patriot Lobster in Salem, Ma and one at Oliva's Market in Milford, Ma. Every year. As I said above , You just can't get good quality Italian cold cuts, or fresh Maine Lobster here in the Northwest. After living 28 years in Hopedale and Boston I have been spoiled and need to get my fix. Lol Thanks to Fedex and the Internet I can get it these days. I might add that it's very expensive but very much worth it to this old Hopedale raised fellow. Overnight Shipping is about $50 for each order as it must be shipped Fedex overnight priority. I have attached the links for Oliva's Market and Patriot Lobster & Seafood Richard also included the following links, in case you want to get lobster or an Oliva's meal the way he does. http://www.patriotlobster.com/home http://olivasmarket.com/ |
Yes, that's where it was. Click here to go to a Milford News article on the old oak tree. |
From Milford Daily News |
Click here for a review of Trattoria 89 Central – 89 Main Street, Milford, by the Grumpy Gourmet. Grumpy grew up in Milford and Hopedale, and now lives in Connecticut. |
The Blackstone Valley Paddle Club gathers at a different location each Tuesday during the summer. The pictures above show members gathering and setting out on August 9th, when they paddled on Hopedale Pond. Here's a link to the club's site. |
You can dine at Liz's Diamond, down by the airport, but as you see here, there are some who are happy to eat at the Town Park Diamond. |
From the Milford Daily News |
I met Mike Danello at the Milford History Museum recently. When he told me that he was a stamp collector and dealer, I told him of the Hopedale Community postal stamp. He had never heard of it, so when he got home, he looked it up in a catalog. What you see above is what he found. Catalog prices are based on sales, but Mike said since they are so rare it's been a long time since one sold, and so the price has shown as $800 in the catalogs for many years. He found one being offered for $1200, but until and unless it sells, the price in the catalog will remain at $800. Click here to go to a page on the postal system of the Hopedale Community. |
Thanks to Peter Metzke of Melbourne, Australia for sending yet another Hopedale find. The picture above of the Draper assembly line is from a 1965 publication titled Massachusetts Industry: Progress Through Enterprise. |
G&U yard, August 19. What big ears you have. |
This is just part of a large area along Route 140 in Franklin that has been cleared in the last month. I looked online to see if I could find what was going on there. According to this paragraph from the minutes of the October 2015 meeting of the Bellingham Planning Board, it's a 40B development. JSK is James S. Kupfer, the Bellingham town planner. |
