The Puritan, by Augustus Saint-Gaudins, at the Community House. Click here to read about it at the Met Museum site, and here for the site the paragraph below comes from. |
Hopedale HIgh Class of 1986 30-year reunion. Click here for names. |
Hopedale in December 2016 Hopedale History Ezine for December 1 - The Draper Companies, 1878-1892 Ezine for December 15 - The Albee Corn Mill Hopedale in November Recent Pictures Menu HOME . |
To be fair to Rev. Ballou,I'll point out that he said a number of times that the Hopedale Community wasn't a communist organization. The reason for that was that the members didn't have equal ownership. They could buy as many shares as they wanted or could afford, which resulted in the two Draper brothers owning a majority. |
Click here to see photos of it. |
Click here to see the history of the Harrison Block. |
Freedom Street, December 2. Click here to see more photos of the bridge project. |
Above - These Hopedale Pressed Metal ash trays turn up on eBay now and then. Below - The former Hopedale Pressed Metal building is now occupied by several different businesses. |
Soward Street, December 2 |
Sumac moon, from the Milford Trail near Dilla Street. |
Click here to read about the Rosenfeld family and business. |
Above and below - The first snow of this winter. About an inch fell on December 5. |
Dr. Sgalia's Christmas party at the Community House. |
front pages and other articles in the week following the Pearl Harbor attack. |
The Freedom Street bridge project nearing completion. Click here to see more. |
Hopedale Pond, December 8. It has a skim of ice, which has come and gone a few times over the past several days. |
The bridge was opened to traffic on December 9. |
I just ran across these while looking at a patent site. A great tool. Everybody should have at least one. Petersen's earliest locking pliers patent was granted in 1921. |
The six photos above are just a small sample of what you can find on the Massachusetts section of the onlyinyourstate.com website. You might recognized the picture in the lower left, which is on Church Street in Whitinsville. Click here to go to the site. |
December 15 - Ice looks nice, but weather prediction for the weekend looks like it won't last. For now it's good enough for a couple of guys to get out there. |
Again, as I've done a couple of times in the past, I'm posting this for the enjoyment of those of you looking at this from warmer places. Note however, that while the temperature was 3.8, it actually felt like a more comfortable 4. Probably just because of rounding though. |
Inman street. A few inches of snow, followed by a bit of rain fell on December 17 |
Unitarian Church, Mendon. Photo by John Trainor. |
The Parklands |
Hopedale's most momentous celebration was Christmas, held in December to commemorate not so much Christ's birth - which was supposed to have been in the spring - as his example. It was a conscious defiance of New England's religious past, when Puritans had spurned Christmas as a heathen holiday. Edward K. Spann, Hopedale: Commune to Company Town. Click here to read more about Christmas in early Hopedale. |
Site of Billy Draper's Store - December 21 |
Senior Center at the Community House. Knitted items will be donated. |
Community House Christmas tree. |
No skaters on the pond when I've passed by during the last couple of days, but the fishermen are out there. The pictures look like the pond is covered with snow, but actually it's ice, and it looks pretty good. |
I noticed a hit on the James Northrop page showing up as coming from Moscow, so I thought I'd take a look for a bit more on where it came from. Can't say that it means anything to me, other than the hope1842 URL in a couple of places near the bottom. |
Hopedale Pond last Christmas. It's a little cooler this year. About 40 today, with enough ice on the pond for a few kids to be out there skating this morning. |
Extended family gathered for Christmas dinner at town park. |