9 20 8497 https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/d68254d012ae24ceae5fa641e3b2ba8d.pdf d59b6a393e83c934c911287086f0c1a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. In minuscule the two-party system that has held sway in America has also remained the political reality in Maynard. Threats to its supremacy have been cipher though efforts nationally and locally have risen to attempt changing the status quo. It has consequently created a stability in political affairs that is conservative and unchanging - a prudence that is commendable to most people. In the quadrennial elections for National office, our town remained firmly Republican until 1928. Slowly through the decades the Democratic Party forces gained strength - possibly for two reasons: (1) the emergence of the foreign born and their off-spring into the political life of the community and (2) the growing Catholic element (particularly the Irish) set against the Yankee Protestant founders of Maynard. The Protestant founders having pre-empted the Republican banner from Civil War days left only the Democratic Party (with some exceptions, of course) to the late-comers. A deeper study of the situation in Maynard we think might illuminate what has happened in Massachusetts as a whole. In 1920: Republican Harding & Coolidge: 1O13 votes Democrat Cox & Roosevelt: 423 votes Social Labor: 2 votes Socialist: 120 votes Close to 2-1/2 to 1 Republican. In 1924: Republican Coolidge-Dawes: 1083 votes Democrat Davis-Bryan: 462 votes Independent Progressive LaFolette-Wheeler: 283 votes Communist: 20 votes Social Labor: 0 votes Close to 2-1/2 to 1 Republican. In 1928 Republican Hoover-Curtis: 1115 votes Democrat Smith-Robinson: 1022 votes Prohibition: 6 votes Socialist: 82 votes Communist: 20 votes Just about even. Remember Al Smith was a Catholic. Remember also it took thirty-two years (1960) for a Catholic to enter the White House - a tribute to both sides for a live and let live atmosphere finally. In 1932: Democrat Roosevelt-Canier: 1237 Republican Hoover-Curtis: 1022 Prohibition: 6 Socialist: 160 Communist: 31 Social Labor: 3 A majority for the Democrats. In 1936: Democrat Roosevelt-Garner: 1712 Rep. Landon-Knox: 1010 Social Labor: 5 Socialist: 19 Communist: 24 Prohibition: 3 Union Party Lemke-O'Brien: 130 This was clearly a Democratic town by then. Notice the supply of small minority parties - five of them - a sign of frustration on the political spectrum from right to left during the Great Depression. In 1940: Democrat Roosevelt-Wallace: 2139 Republican Wilke-McNary: 1131 Prohibition: 1 Social Labor: 1 Socialist: 8 Communist: 13 Nearly two to one Democratic by now. In 1944: Democrat Roosevelt-Truman: 2033 Republican Dewey-Bricker: 1131 Social Labor: 4 Nearly two to one Democratic. The dominance of the local Democratic Party has remained to the present (1968) - though a phenomenon has grown -- the emergence of an Independent vote tied to neither party - voting for individuals only. Apparently neither party has what it needs to attract this large unorganized bloc of voters to its standard. The two parties function through town committees elected by the registered voters of both parties. Party caucuses nominate candidates for the general election - with Independents being able to get on the ballot through nomination papers with a certain minimum amount of signatures. In 1941 the Republican Town Committee requested of its Democratic counter-part that a Citizens Caucus be instituted in place of the two-party caucuses for local elections. This meant one caucus to which all voters could go to vote. This lasted through 1943 but was discontinued as so many of the defeated candidates got on the ballot by securing signatures. [Maynard News - 1941: Jan. 31, Feb. 8, Feb. 14; 1942: Feb. 19; 1943: Feb. 11] This Citizens Caucus, to this writer, seems a ploy by the minority party to get more Republicans voted into town office. Minority parties have never played any role in town government. However, with the increase of the Finnish population in town, a sizable Socialist group emerged concerned with National and International questions and living and working conditions. A Socialist Hall was erected on Parker Street (Parker Street Hall) - plays, athletics, dances were held. Voses Pond was purchased by them for summer use. The Imatra Band had its home at the hall. A Finnish speaking Socialist Party was organized within this grouping and English-speaking locals came and went with regularity organized through the efforts of the Finns. Socialist speakers came regularly to Post Office Square (corner of Main and Walnut Streets). Up to the advent of the second World War - a span of forty years - the Socialist image was vigorously projected in town but passed on with the aging of the foreign-born Finns. A split-off group from these Socialists organized themselves in 1922 as the Workers Party (Communist) as a result of the Russian Revolution. They met in Eagles Hall, purchased the site of the burned-out Maynard House to build a hall, but later built the Waltham Street Hall instead. This hall burned down on May 6, 1932 and they rented the Powder Mill Road Hall (present home of the Elks) for some years. This group nurtured an English-speaking Communist Party in town and during the depression year of 1933 four candidates for local office. The Town Clerk refused to allow them to run as Communists so they ran as Independents. This was the first and last time that a local minority party ran candidates. The vote was not spectacular but indicated frustration during the Great Depression. Selectman: 254 votes Board of Public Welfare: 197 votes Board of Health: 122 votes Tree Warden: 431 votes [Maynard News: Feb. 2, 1933; Feb. 16, 1933] I am indebted to Raymond Sheridan and Ralph Sheridan for Information plus the Maynard News of the following dates: Aug. 26, 1904 - Oct. 29, 19O9 - Oct. 14, 191O - Feb. 21, 1913 - April 11, I913 -Aug. 21, 1914 - April 9, I92O -A pril 30, 1920 - Feb. 18, 1921 - Feb. 25, 1921 -Feb. 3, 1922 -March 24, 1922 - March 31, 1922 - Oct. 5, 1928 - May 6, 1932 - Feb. 2, 1933 - Feb. 16, 1933 - May 18, 1933 -March 24, 1939 - Jan. 31, 1941 - Feb. 7, 1941 - Feb. l4, 1941 - Feb, 19, 1942 - Feb. 11, 1943. Also town reports of the Quadrennial Elections. Read at the October, I968 meeting of the Maynard Historical Society B. R. KOSKI Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Local Political Parties Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.238 Description An account of the resource This paper covers the ebb and flows of various political parties from the Town's incorporation through the mid 20th century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-10 Communist Party Democratic Party election monograph political parties Republican Party socialist Socialist Party vote voters https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/8699f27cf1fcc8b5b17d120c6666287f.pdf c11c182c1e87123cb4d981d1aa11dedf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The original and only form of locomotion for man from one place to another on this globe of ours was by moving one leg after the other forward. Only in recent times - millennia wise -did he learn other ways. We wish to speak in this paper on those less fortunate brethren of ours of by-gone years who tramped or rode the rails into and possibly out of Maynard. Webster defines a tramp as one who travels about on foot. Further, he defines a hobo (this is Americanese by the way) as a professional tramp, We are sure that Maynard was graced by both genre. We must also confess to a certain softness of the heart towards these tramps as differentiated from hobos of the first forty years of the existence of Maynard, for we have dear friends that did exactly this looking for work during the Great Depression of the early 30's. Carl Sandburg in 1927 published his famous "American Song Bag" from which we have taken these following excerpts of hobo songs to illustrate Nineteenth Century America from their viewpoint. In many ways these are similar to the folk songs that came out of the 30's and the protest songs of today's youth against the crass materialism of present-day Society. "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" goes back to the 1890's, heard at the water tanks of railroads: Oh, why don't you work like other men do? How the hell can I work when there's no work to do? Hallelujah, I'm a bum Hallelujah, bum again Hallelujah, give us a handout To revive us again. I went to a house and asked for some bread. A Lady came out, says, the baker is dead. Halleluja (repeat) And so on for many verses. Another song is entitled "Shovellin' Iron Ore" and this is usually sung by quartets in conjunction with "We are Four Bums"" Something happened the other day That never happened before A man tried to got me to shovel iron ore. Says I, Old man now what will you pay? Says he, Two bits a ton! Says I, Old man, go diddle yourself. I'd rather be on the bum' We are four gums, four jolly good chums. We live like royal Turks, We're having good luck, in bumming about. God bless the man that works. The fourth and last one is entitled "Wanderin". We still hear this song today. it has a tremendously haunting quality to the melody: My daddy is an engineer My brother drives a hack My sister takes in washin' An' the baby balls the jack An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my wanderin' I been wanderin' early and late. New York City to the Golden Gate And it looks like I'm never gonna cease my wanderin'. Been a-workin' in the army, Working on a farm All I got to show for it Is the muscle in my arm And it looks like I'm never gonna cease my wanderin'. So now that we are in the proper frame of mind let us read some excerpts from the Maynard Town Reports starting in 1871 - our first year as a corporation: (READ EXCERPTS -SEE ATTACHED) A January 8, 1904 news item in the paper tells us of a large number of complaints about hobos begging for food and scaring women. January 22, 1904 - Officer Connors hurrying hobos out of town. They have to have permit now to stay at poor farm for night. February 5, 1904 - Plan of overseers of the poor forcing hobos to get a permit is working -only twelve last week - up to that time 18 to 25 nightly. William Lord of Stow says they are coming there and Stow may follow Maynard's plan. The January and February dates on these news would indicate that these men were out of work and out of money and searching both. That they were tramps and not hobos. Most of them no doubt traveled on - some no doubt stayed on and became solid citizens of our community. Lest we judge too harshly these wayfaring strangers -remember - they might be our fathers or grandfathers! Most of the dates are from Maynard News and the information prior to the turn of the Century was compiled from Town Reports by a jail-bird of 35 years and tramp who traveled to Concord from Maynard daily to jail - we mean Ralph Sheridan our President! Read at the March, 1968 Meeting of the Maynard Historical Society B. R. KOSKI Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Hobos and Tramps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.239 Description An account of the resource A bit of cultural background of tramps and hobos and then an account of how tramps and hobos were cared for from 1871 through 1905. Tramps, generally speaking, "rode the rails" on the trains that passed through town (apparently Massachusetts was a magnet for tramps because such ad hoc care was available). Supported by Town Report excerpt (see related resource) Relation A related resource <a href="/items/show/7625">2019.232 - Hobos and Tramps Town Report Excerpts</a> hobos monograph tramps https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/2e0baf7c73eedf983b4a99f6a3cd083c.pdf aff5691726834f55c41cb6f9ece32e8e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. This paper is concerned with the old time Husking Bees, but it needs some prefacing remarks, how and why they came into being. Three types of corn were raised: Indian corn for display purposes, (2) yellow and white corn for human consumption and (3) field or cow corn. The third type is what created that institution known as the Husking Bee. Field corn was a large ear, sometimes foot long and smooth kernel even after drying out - not wrinkled as the corn forhuman consumption, if old. Sometime in late September or early October the stalks wore cut in the field and bundled standing up. These bundles were called corn shocks. After drying outside for approximately a month, they were transported into the barn, usually the loft. A farmer with not too large a crop would do the necessary labor with his family, but those with huge crops would either pay additional help or have a Husking Bee. Webster's definition: a neighborly gathering to work for someone, or for some joint concern; as a quilting or a Husking Bee. (U.S. Derivation) The Husking Bee was usually held on a Saturday night to make it a social evening. The ears of corn were ripped off the stalks, the husk stripped off end the ears were then ultimately either brought to a grist mill loose, barreled, or bagged; or, at the farm, the kernel was machined off by a contraption into which the ear was inserted and a crank turned. To make the Bee more interesting ears of Indian colored corn were mixed with the field corn - the finder of such being able to buss a partner of his or her own choice - that was traditional. The kernel that was machined off at the farm was fed to chickens and horses. The corn ground at the grist mill was called cob meal, as cob and all were ground, and was' fed to cattle. The only part discarded in all this process was the cob of the corn that had the kernel machined off. The White Farm by Voses Pond and the Batley Farm on Acton Street had Husking Bees that individuals still living remember. The following is an account of a Bee from the Maynard News of November 3, 1911: October 13, I890, Husking Bee 20 young people responded to an Invitation to participate in a harvest party at the home of Miss Nellie B. Peters on Saturday evening. Festivities opened with corn husking but as in the case of a similar party recently, red ears were conspicuous by their absence. This seems a bad year for red ears. Young ladies chagrined. Then after busking there was a program of vocal and instrumental music, followed by dancing and collation, and all appeared happy despite failure to be hobsonized. November 3, 1911 A barge load of Maynard and Concord people attended a Husking Bee at Mrs. Quinn's Farm in South Sudbury Saturday night. The word hobsonized in the News article must refer to the dictionary definition of Hobson's Choice (17th century) a choice without an alternative - so the last phrase would read ''despite failure to have a choice without an alternative". There were grist mills throughout the area so farmers did not have too far to travel. The Wayside Inn Mill is a grist mill used today for grinding flour for one of the Baking Companies. We in Maynard had a mill on Mill Street which was a combination grist, wood, and cider mill -according to Gutteridge's ''History". The above technical information was supplied to me by William Salo, of the Salo-Simon Farm. Submitted by B.R.Koski - Jan. 1965 Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Husking Bees Description An account of the resource A summary of a farm harvest tradition. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.240 corn farm grist mill monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/44fbe99445a8ca0dc77df5b8200425bb.pdf e7027f6ddfc2f3c99231ecb94e48590f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. This monograph was slated to be prepared by the late James B. Farrell at the time of his death. Having all the articles on the Park from the Maynard News plus his personal recollections of Rev. Crowe, his paper would have done much more justice to the subject and would have been enjoyed much more by you than anything that we can write. As it would have been his monograph, we would like to dedicate this to "the Old Curmudgeon". Rev, John A. Crowe of St. Bridget's Church, the chairman of a committee that approached the Town Fathers in 19OO to see if the town would buy sufficient amount of land for a Town Park. An article at the 19OI Town Meeting appropriated $1,000 to buy 6 acres of land from William H. Eveleth on Great Road for this purpose. Rev. Crowe logically was the first Park Superintendent because of his great interest in youth and sports. He did not hide behind the cloth but participated actively in all sports personally. Many an anecdote you would have heard from Jim Farrell about faux-pax committed by out-of-town baseball teams that did not realize the Maynard team had aReverend on it. The grounds were leveled, a small grandstand was erected, baseball field put in; cricket club field (this club had its building and field also at this park); track events, football games, soccer and cricket, band concerts after the band stand was erected, tennis with the courts erected, all sorts or activities were engaged in. At the 1908 Town Meeting it was voted to name the Park "John A. Crowe Park". A September 3, 1915 article in the papers tells that through the instrumentality of a number of public spirited citizens of Maynard, a stone marker with a bronze tablet inscribed "John A. Crowe Park, purchased by the Town of Maynard, 19O1", is to be erected at the park and will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. The monument is being prepared by the Maynard Granite & Bath(?) Works, Rev. Crowe of Cambridge, will be present. The Committee is ... A.J. Coughlan, P.J. Sullivan, B.J. Coughlin. Oct. 1, 1915 - The dedication exercises took place with A.J. Coughlan as Master of Ceremonies, Selectman Binks spoke on behalf of the Town. Mayor Good and Superintendent of Schools, Michael Fitzgerald of Cambridge eulogized Rev. Crowe. Rev. Crowe spoke at length of the happy years he spent in Maynard and the many friends he left here on moving to Cambridge. Some years ago the Green Meadow School was erected in the rear part of the park. All dates are from the Maynard News. Read at the March, 1969 meeting of The Maynard Historical Society B.R. KOSKI Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: John A. Crowe Park Description An account of the resource A short history of the origins of Crowe Park. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.241 baseball cricket Crowe Crowe Park monograph park https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/08b6c54f65c72cb012e7129e19de8b97.pdf 14c16f31db1c489dc5f454584b2fa36b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Food and shelter are two material demands that man cannot do without if he is to exist. From the beginning of time man and mate endeavored in some way to provide for both. An abode, no matter how humble, gave shelter from the elements -a little land gave of its riches in grains and vegetables, waters gave of their fish, woods gave of their animals for meat - food in short. But what of the wayfaring strangers that have trod this earth of ours - where have they rested their bodies and filled their stomachs? Their home could be thousands of miles away, across seas, over mountains - for everyone has or has had a home somewhere. Provision for these wanderers goes back to ancient times, taverns, inns, or stables. Our story has to do with the trek of people through, and to, Maynard and what accommodations we have had for them. The needs of travelers, passing through what is now Maynard in the early times was filled by Rice Tavern, at Voses Pond on Puffer Road. This was on the stagecoach route from Boston to Lancaster. It was closed in 1815 after being a tavern for a hundred years. With the erection of Ben Smith Bridge, the Great Road was opened to stagecoach travel, and Levi Smith, about 1816, ran the Thompson Place as a tavern and traveller's accommodation. No records that we have as of now tell us when this closed. With the advent of Assabet Manufacturing Co. on the scene in Assabet Village, it wasn't too long that a tavern-hotel was erected right in the village for the accommodation of the local residents. Peter Haley, in 1867, built the Glendale House on Summer Street where the present municipal parking lot is situated...the name coming from a blanket, 'Glendale Mills Blanket' that was manufactured by Assabet Manufacturing Co. We are lacking records in the 19th century except for an article in the Acton Patriot of August 8, 1875, telling us that the Maynard Brass Band serenaded landlord Mullen, of the Glendale House at his hostelry, and he reciprocated by treating the members to a fine repast. John Desmond's name appears by 1899, and the name now is Maynard House (June 9, 1899). It finally burned down January 29, 1921. The Maple House (location of our fire and police station) was built by G. Frank Cutting in the 1880s. It operated for many years under his management. The last proprietor was William Campbell. The building was torn down in the 1920's. The American House on Spring Lane was erected sometime in the 1880's or 1890's. We have an ad for June 9, 1899, telling us that Julius Loewe and Son are the proprietors and also that they are wholesale dealers in liquors for medicinal purposes. This remained in business for many years. It was torn down June 8, 1933. By 1901 there must have been other boarding and rooming houses in the center of town, but the first ad we come across, outside of the above-mentioned places, is dated August 23, 1901. It informs us that "boarders wanted, just renovated rooms, airiest in town, and prepared to cater to the best class in town - comer of Glendale and Summer Streets, Thomas Farrell, Proprietor." The late James B. Farrell told us that the place was called Glendale House and previous to that Pompossiticut House. Jim's father died the following year so it must have closed then. December 27, 1901 -Mrs. William Martin advertises 'table and board, Main Street next to Harriman Laundry'. With the tremendous growth of the American Woolen (Company) during these years it became imperative for the company to find lodging and food for its employees, so it built its own houses. Two boarding houses were built, part of which is now Buscemi's Market, 179 Main Street. This was May 9, 1902. One of these was called the Lakeview House, Mrs. Gibbons in charge; the other was the West End House. The Lakeview later was renamed Minto House, possibly after the Finnish proprietors. At this time also, iinerican Woolen moved the original wool shop to 143-147 Main Street and made it a double rooming and boarding house. They were called the Middlesex and Assabet Houses. In the same issue of the paper it is reported that over 100 applicants desire to be in charge of the boarding houses. July 11, 1902 - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bell are given management of one end of this double house. This building was purchased by the town September 14, 1934, to serve as our town house until the present municipal building was built in the early 60's. Gutteridge's (1921) History tells us of Mrs. Hillis for many years operating the Central House, this originally being a livery stable. November 7, 1902 news note tells us the Central House being converted to a Finnish Boarding House. This building is still standing at I83 Main Street. The Somerset Hotel was built by B. J. Coughlin at the comer of River and Main Street (Jake"˜s Market now) in 1909, for we have an ad in the paper, April 15, 1910, calling our attention to it. His daughter, Mrs. Jeremiah Lynch tells us that her father around this time also bought The Maple House from the Cutting Estate, and later sold that to James Wall. He also allegedly sold the Somerset House to Harry Clarke around this time for a newspaper note of April 30, 1911, tells us that townspeople question the propriety of one man having two licenses. The Powder Mills had a large boarding and rooming house just on the town line on Powder Mill Road. A news article of October 22, 1909 informs us that it is being renovated with a smoking and pool room added. As Iate as September 1927, there were five boarding houses according to the town census figures. With American Woolen falling on hard times and the movement of single people slowing up, and the residents of Maynard in the majority either owning homes or renting tenements, the hotels and rooming houses disappeared. Restaurants and diners took care of the dietary needs of the few that just had rooms. It seems to this writer that Maynard, during the first two decades of this century, must have presented a picture of turmoil with so mary strange faces moving in and out of its environs - no real stability. I am indebted to the following for information on this paper: Gutteridge's History of Maynard, Maynard News (all dates), Ralph Sheridan, Mrs. Jeremiah Lynch, and the late James B. Farrell (the last paper he will ever aid me with). Read at the Maynard Historical Society Meeting of February, 1968 "” B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Room and Boarding Houses, Hotels and Hostelries Description An account of the resource A review of the many boarding houses and hotels that sprang up in Maynard starting in the 1860s and flourished until the 1930s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-02 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.242 American House American Woolen Company Assabet House board boarding house Glendale House hotel Lakeview House Maple House Middlesex House monograph Rice Tavern https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/1e99b802301a913c5f22f6f5ea82808d.pdf 435f1901dcd6df81c55cfeaa725ad5e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The St. Bridget's Cemetery land was bought and laid out in 1869 two years before St. Bridget's Catholic Parish (1871) came into being and while still a mission of the Marlboro Parish. According to Gutteridge's History of Maynard many burials of Assabet Village Catholics took place in Saxonville as part of St. George's Parish. However, there are a few stones in St. Bridget's Cemetery indicating that some Catholics were buried on that land prior to 1869 or interred later; O'Donnell, dated May 28, 1959, Hurley, 1863; Owens, 1865; Doyle, Sept. 12, 1866. This would further indicate that prior to 1857 when Union Hall was built - and which the village Catholics used until 1866 - Catholics walked to Saxonville for services and had at intervals masses in homes - had no formal organization. The first person interred in St. Bridget's Cemetery after it was laid out was James Heffernan, a Civil War veteran - date April 12, 187O. The Town meeting of March 10, 1873 voted to appropriate $300 to fence the Catholic Cemetery - then voted to re-consider the vote granting money to fence the Catholic Cemetery and passed over the article. (Apparently municipal money could not be appropriated for any but a municipal cemetery.) January 19, 1900 - St. Bridget's Parish to improve the cemetery by the erection of a suitable entrance and stone fence. Architects: McGinnis, Walsh and Sullivan (Boston). February 23, 1900 - Plans for gate and entrance nears completion. Fence also to be built provided any funds left. The entrance will be 35 feet wide, masonry of fancy brick with limestone trim and surmounted with hood of antique oak. March 30, 1900 - Bridget's National Festival to take place at Music Hall to raise funds for cemetery funds. Booths of all sorts for sale of goods. July 25, 1902 - John Kelly, Contractor, starts work on new tomb for St. Bridget's Cemetery. May 24, 1938 - Voted at town meeting the sum of $700 to be paid to St. Bridget's Parish for the perpetual care of seven veteran's graves at St. Bridget's cemetery. This appropriation not approved by Commission of Corporations and Taxation for while you may appropriate money for the care of these lots no authorization exists which would allow the town to establish perpetual care funds for such a purpose. 1939 - Voted to rescind the action taken under Article 16 at town meeting of May 24, I938. 1940 - Care of veteran's lots at St. Bridget's. $I6. 1941 - Voted sum of $25 to provide for care of veterans' lots at St. Bridget's, in accordance with Chapter 115, Section 22 G.L. I am indebted to Gutteridge's History of Maynard (1921), all dates from 1900-02, Maynard News, and Ralph Sheridan for research in the Town Meeting records. Read at the March, 1969 Meeting of Maynard Historical Society B.R.KOSKI Storage Location in the archive Maynard Monographs binder (red) SU9-4 2 add'l copies in St. Bridget's Parish Historical Info - (2 of 4) folder VF53 SU20-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Saint Bridget's Cemetery Description An account of the resource The history of St. Bridget's Cemetery, which actually predates the parish in Maynard, from 1869 through the 1940s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.243 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource white paper, typewritten, 8.5 x 11 in. (2 pages) cemetery monograph Saint Bridget Church https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/a6d984573effd3171b22801919ebf341.pdf 9c19b178409fd823d4babd3ea0533f7f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The Lincoln Library of Essential Information has the following on the Knights: A Social Brotherhood founded at Washington, D.C., February 19, 1864, by Justus Henry Rathbone and four others, to promote the principles of Friendship, Charity and Benevolence. The fundamental tenets of the Order are toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government". Accepted candidates are advanced through the three ranks or degrees of Page, Esquire and Knight. Local bodies are known as Lodges; the governing body is the Supreme Lodge". Gutteridge's History of Maynard (1921) informs us that the local Progressive Lodge of the Knights of Pythias was instituted July 25, 1898. Not having access to newspapers of that year we will have to omit mention of the founding officers. However on January 24, I902 we learn tliat the following are officers for the coming year: B.O. Philbrick, William Grannigan, John Wollerschied, Freeman Robbins, George Bradley, Arthur Coughlin, Herbert Moore, George Grannigan, Neil Jacobsen, A.C . Fairbanks and Harry Parmenter. Meetings and entertainments must have been held in Masonic Hall on Main Street for we come across this fact all through the life of the organization. The Lodge many times had out-of-town Lodges as visitors. On October 28, 1910, for example, a supper and entertainment was held at Masonic Lodge and lodges from Worcester, Ayer, Ayer Junction and Hudson disembarked from the electric cars at the car barn on the comer of Great Road and Main Street and, with the Maynard Brass Band leading, marched to Masonic Hall. Edward Cheney the Toastmaster for the occasion. March 17, 1911 news reports that new headquarters have been engaged at Music Hall, but that was short-lived as Music Hall burned down in 1912. February 20, 1914 a Golden Anniversary - literary and musical program celebrating the beginning of the National Order was held at Cooperative Hall. The committee on arrangements composed of A.C. Fairbanks, George Bradley, Tom French, Charles Shearer, E.G. Cheney and W.V. Cameron, At a July 15, 1921 meeting a Temple of Pythian Sisters was instituted. The officers were: Mrs, Jessie Bell, Theresa Fox, Gertrude Tucker, Isabelle Kennedy, Bertha Mason, Grace Spencer, Laura Fletcher, Mary Martin, Ellen Shearer, Marion Butterworth, Olive Richardson and Elizabeth Jamieson. February 20, 1931 we take note of a Military Whist being held at Masonic Hall. February 3, 1939 officers were installed as follows: Thomas Fox, Harry Bumpus, John Mitzcavitch, Charles Shearer, Walter Croft, Ernest Larson and Ben Gruber. April 5, 1940 a Regional or State Convention was held in Masonic Hall with the attendance running into the hundreds, The organization petered out during the 1940's due possibly to the war. All dates are from the Maynard News of those dates indicated. Read at the March, I966 meeting of The Maynard Historical Society BIRGER R. KOSKI Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Knights of Pythias Description An account of the resource A local chapter of a national organization was started in town in 1898 founded on the tenets of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government". The organization faded during the early 1940s, possibly because of World War II. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.246 fraternal organization Knights of Pythias monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/feb895e0e08ba587373b865361b29837.pdf 31a56e4dcc534bd883a755085be461a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The Jewish people began settling in Maynard around the turn of the century, the same period that brought In most of the many ethnic groups that comprised the majority of the population in town. No doubt there were a few families earlier than that but there is no record that is available to us. We are aware of only one family, the Julius Loewe's, who ran a combination rooming house and tavern at Harriman Court. This family must have settled here in the 1880's as Julius was active In town affairs by 1890, being on the town committee to purchase land and build a fire station for the new town fire department that year. Our first news report comes in 1901 concerning a Jewish christening taking place in the West End on July 12, and the second in September, 1903 that the Jewish people with a Rabbi in their midst will celebrate New Year's Eve, September 22, with exercises In Masonic Hall. Rabbi Greenberg, President S. Goldenberg and Vice-president James Shepard were the leaders of the congregation of fifty. Starting the following year the religious holidays were celebrated in Odd Fellows Hall, Nason Street, through 1920. A January 1907 news article gives as the following officers for the Maynard Hebrew Association: President Max Blatt; Vice-president S.L. Bloomberg; Treasurer David Wiseberg; Secretary Julius Goldberg; Board of Directors Sam Goldberg, S. Sperberg, Harris Cohn and David Wineberg. It was decided to remove the Torah to the home of Max Blatt. Officers for 1913 were President Max Blatt; Vice-president I. Liberman; Secretary U. Feldman and Treasurer J. Bressler. March 20, 1914: Rabbl Sherr became the new Rabbi of the congregation. The officers that year were President Samuel Lerer, Vice-president Isaac Liverman, Treasurer Ely Gruber, Financial Secretary Rabbi I. W. Sherr, Recording Secretary Mr. Fineberg, Trustees Max Blatt, Fineberg and Bakka. September 10, 1915: Rosh Hosannah was celebrated by two Jewish congregations, one in Odd Fellows Hall with Rabbi Sherr and the other In Cannon's Hall (Main Street) with Rabbi H. Raymond. This second congregation, it is our understanding, was the ADZ Israel Society, comprised of Acton and Concord residents. Oct 8, 1915: the elections for the Maynard Hebrew Association took place at their own rooms on Summer Street with the following officers: President Ely Gruber, Vice-president Ely Goldman, Recording Secretary H. Fish, Financial Secretary Rabbi I. W. Sherr, Treasurer Mr. Backrach, Trustees Max Blatt, William Licherman and David Bander, and Inside Guard Sam Strousberg. The Jewish New Year in 1920 (Sept. 17) was celebrated by the Maynard Hebrew Association in Odd Fellows Hall with Rabbi Silver of Brookline assisted by Rabbi Sherr and the ADV Israel Society in Eagles Hall with Rabbi Jacob Slavetsky of Boston. The following year 1921 (Jan.28) a Maynard and Hudson Jewish Youth Association was formed at Riverside Hall with officers as follows: President Louis J. Rickels, Vice-president Mrs. Samuel Balkman, Secretary Miss Pearl Lerer, Treasurer Charles Lerer, Entertainment Committee Mrs. Joel Glickman, Misses Dera Sherr, Jennie Feinberg, Marion Sperberg and Benjamin Gruber. This organization known as the Double Triangle (Feb. 4) was an educational and social club. The following meeting (Feb. 4) the entertainment committee was enlarged to include Morris Feinberg, Bessie Bomstein, and Ell Kesler, and the educational committee additions were Miss Sperberg, Martin Gruber, Edith Rives and Annie Siger. Around this period in the early twenties the Hebrew Association purchased a house on Nason Street and removing it to Acton Street renovated it for use as the Rodoff Shalom Synagogue. In the early 1930's( May 13, 1932) the Maynard Jewish Council was organized for athletic and social purposes. In 1933 (Nov. 24) a basketball team was organized at Pastime Hall, on Harriman Court, with the following as candidates; Bachrach Bothers, Seder Brothers, Glickman Brothers, Lerer Brothers, Gruber, Swartz, Liverman, Arkin and Silverman, and with Michael Zapareski as coach. In 1940 (July 5) a Jewish Ladies Aid Society was organized to raise funds for Jewish refugees fleelng Hitler Germany. This paper would be derelict in its duty if it did not mention that the history of the town of Maynard would have a void in it but for the efforts of a Jewish businessman. The reference is to Samuel Lerer, proprietor of the New Idea Clothing Store and operator of the moving picture theatre in Riverside Hall. He had the moving pictures taken of the 50th anniversary celebration of Maynard to show at his theatre. He knew not the significance of that for posterity but the Maynard Historical Society as possessors fifty years later of a 16 mm copy of this film, can be ever grateful to him for being able to show a moving picture of the 50th anniversary at our hundredth anniversary. By B.R. Koski Read at the 1970 meeting of the Maynard Historical Society. All dates from issues of the Maynard News. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The Jewish People in Maynard Description An account of the resource A review of the associations and influence of the Jewish immigrant community on Maynard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.248 Gruber Harriman Court Jewish Lerer monograph New Idea Store Odd Fellows Hall Pastime Hall Riverside Hall Riverside Theater synagogue https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/ceb75cf76bbaa61e0444c92858fb8df5.pdf acc53b17dece8643715f231907f089f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Again the following is from the Lincoln Library of Essential Information: "A Fraternal, Mutual assessment, Beneficiary and Benevolent Society, founded in Boston, June 23, 1877 by Darius Wilson. The object of the organization is to provide its members with safe insurance at minimum cost. Local bodies of the order, known as councils, are under the jurisdiction of a Supreme Council. The motto is: 'Mercy, Virtue and Charity'" Assabet Council 740, Royal Arcanum, was instituted Mar. 13, 1883, six years after the founding of the order, with seven members. An article in the paper for March 20, 1903, the Twentieth Anniversary program indicates that membership was up to eighty-three with two of the charter members still with them, John Joyce and Dr. F.V(U). Rich. Dances (called assemblies), concerts, entertainments were the social outlets of this organization. It must have had clubrooms in one of the halls in town but we have no record where. Larger affairs were held anyway in Masonic Hall or Cooperative Hall. The 20th Anniversary program brought out that $45,000 in death benefits had been paid out in that period; An earlier note for August 4, 1899 makes mention of Mrs. McGrail receiving $3,000 due the policy of the late H.H. McGrail. Names of members active either as officers or on committees at the turn of the century are: Dr. W.B. Currier, M.H. Garfield, Alex Veitch, F.R. Connor, P.J. Sullivan, Regent Dr. Dan Goodenow, James F. Sweeney, O.S. Fowler, George Lawton, Aquilla Reynard, James Carney, George E. Hart, James Goodson. Dec. 22, 1916, the officers were P.J. Sullivan, Fred Axford, Dr. Dan Goodenoy, John Sunderland, Thomas Deane, Emanuel Taylor, George Hart, George Murphy, William Lord, Orrin Fowler, Thomas Sweeney, James Coughlin. By 1920, apparently the society had weakened in membership that discussions were underway to consolidate with South Acton or some other Lodge. In April, 1920 the Assabet Council became part of the Rawson Council of Hudson with Horrace C. Williams, W.L. Kelt and G.A. Richardson present from Maynard. The above material vas gleaned from the Maynard News, Aug. 4, 1899 - Jan. I9, 1900 - Jan. 30, 1903 - March 13 & 20, I903 - June 24, 1904 - Dec. 22, 1916 - Jan. 30, 1920 - April 9, 192O. Read at the Feb. I966 Meeting Maynard Historical Society B.R.KOSKI Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Royal Arcanum Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.252 Description An account of the resource The Royal Arcanum was a fraternal organization whose core purpose, like a number of other similar societies, was to provide its members with safe insurance at minimum cost. It was founded in Boston in 1877 and still operates as of 2020 (but not in Maynard). The Assabet Council was started in 1883. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-02 fraternal organization insurance monograph society https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/87cb5d691c26e8563887b642a5a02738.pdf 18a212a7631f671ca2bf5bb6aefd7911 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Worker's Associations to protect and augment economic benefits and conditions go way back to the eighteenth century in America. However, these until after the Civil War, were individual attempts in single factories and plants to better their plight. The 1870's brought the Knights of Labor into being in the mine-fields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The members of this union wore mostly immigrant Irish. With the old country blood still fresh in their veins, they gave the mine-owners the same medicine that was meted out to them: tar and feathers, assassinations, terror in all its forms. By the mid-eighties the new American Federation of Labor absorbed the remnants of this organization representing the largest labor group until the advent of the Committee for Industrial Organization (C.I.O.) in the mid 1930's. Source material prior to 1900 being missing, we can only conjecture that Maynard and the Assabet Manufacturing Company had its share of labor turmoil. With the advent of the American Woolen Company on the scene in 1899 and the feverish industrial activity ensuing from this giant of the textile industry, the war between the Maynard wage earners and the only industry started in earnest. However, the power of the company was such, that for 80 years it was able to keep at bay the unions that came and went, doling out pittances only. The composition of the labor force in the mill, being of many national strains, freshly immigrated from the old country, speaking only their own language, militated against the unions becoming powerful enough to deal as equals with the employer. The skilled workers were the first to organize. The spinners, according to the newspaper article of Jan. 31, 1902, had been organized under the management of Assabet Mfg. Co., have been reorganized now on a local basis to deal with the new management. The loom-fixers, mule-fixers, mule-spinners, weavers, all organized during the ensuing decade either as independent or part of the A.F.L. The spinners, 60 of them, struck on Jan. 17, 1902 for extra pay for overtime, causing the entire mill (1000 employees) to close. President Wood and Superintendent Hinchcliffe agree to union demands after threatening to move work to the other mills. A year later, Jan. 9, 1903, the spinners (118 of them) leave again complaining the $10.44 they earn a week is not enough. Company agrees to union demands of $12.00 a week after a 5 day strike. Union Committee was composed of G. Morris, John H. Murray, Joseph Sales, Sylvester Sullivan, Thomas Beck, Archie Stoddard. Jan 16, 1903: the spinners and loom-fixers join the Marlboro labor Council and the A. F. of L. Installation of officers on Jan 27, 1905 of the loom-fixers has Jesse Porter, President; Edward Titley, Vice-President; Joshua Edward, Secretary; John H. Maley, Recording-Secretary; John McDonald, Doorkeeper; Henry Connors, Sergeant. Work stoppages occurred sporadically in the unskilled departments during these years but without an organization to back them, were short-lived. April 14, 1911: the Finn operatives hold a meeting at Music Hall with both Finnish and English speakers. The cause for this meeting had to do with the recent strike among strippers, which resulted in the Finns being fired and Poles replacing them. March 9, 1913: a newsnote tells of the loom-fixers and Mule-fixers combining in one union. A little social life enters into the drab life of the spinners for on May 9, 1913, a Concert and Ball is held with Collins Orchestra playing. Dec.19, 1913: the mule-spinners, local 787, have installation of officers at Odd Fellows Hall. Jan. 9, 1914: loom-fixers, local 401, install officers: President, John Webster; Vice-President, Harry Hargreaves; Fin.Secretary, George Waterhouse; Treasurer, Jeremiah Kelley; Recording-Secretary, George Siswick; Conductor, John McDonald; Warden, Joseph Rollinson; Trustees, John Maley, Felix Rainville, George Siswick. Aug, 7, 1914 finds the loom-fixers, spinners and weavers meeting at Parker Street Hall to plan for Labor Day parade to Crowe Park. This was the first labor Day celebration by organized labor in Maynard continuing annually through 1919. Led by the Imatra Band with Marshal Bernard Garrigan and Nicolai Katava as standard bearer, 3OO union members marched. The loom-fixers had the above mentioned officers leading them: The spinners by President Thomas Brock; Vice-President Pat Lanigan; Fin-Secretary, Charles Spence; Recording-Sec, Ernest Thane; Treasurer, Ed Woodridge. The Weavers by President, Oscar Grondahl; Vice-President, Hjalmar Weckstrom; Secretary, Arthur Lindfors; Treasurer, Hannes Lahti, Conductor, Mitti Autio. A ball game, track and field events, speeches against the 54 hour week and music kept the 1000 people occupied. Nov. 13, 1914 the Central Labor Union holds meeting at Parker Strett Hall and Hibernian Hall for the purpose of organizing all textile workers into the A.F.of L. From this flowed the organization of the sewers (Dec. 4, 1914), spoolers and drawing-in-girls (Dec. 18, 1914) and the burlers. The carpenters local No. 1418 hold monthly meetings at Cannons Hall (Aug.13,1915) Aug 18,1916: the fulling dept and the picker room (mostly Polish) refuse to work during noon hour. Although unorganized they struck and Superintendent Drechsler shuts down mill. 600 poles meet and organize into Polish Local of the A.F.L. The english-speaking local is composed of dry-finish, wet-finish, picker room, card-room and shipping room. Dry and wet finish union leaders were Fred Palmer, vice- president; fin-secretary, Pat McGrath; Treasurer, Jesse Billet; Recording-Secretary, C.E .Greenhalge. The A.F.L. organizer gets the men back to work while negotiations are taking place - adjustments are made but no wage increase. The newspaper reports that the second hands made workers bring vegetables to them plus pay them for their jobs. The same reports says the Italian and Polish women being organized. An interesting side-light on inner union strife came out on Sept. 8, 1916 with John Golden, International President of the United Textile Workers, A.F.L. joins the Maynard mule- spinners local 787, as his own local in Fall River has seceded from the union. Oct. 6, 1916: the sewers local officers are Miss Katie Powers, Martha Parker, Margaret Leyden, Eva Tucker, Mary Driscoll and Mrs. Margaret May. Oct.27, 1918: delegates to the National Convention are Thomas Breck, Joseph Parkin, Andy Hautamaki, Mrs. Catherine Lyons and Miss Mary Driscoll. Dec. 8, 1916: officers of the dry finish and shippers are William Brindley, Ed McManus, Ed Ryan, Pat McGrath, Michael Kane and Thomas Fowler. Dec. 8, 1916: officers of drawers, spoolers, dressers local are Thomas Smith, Esther Emanuelson, Mrs. Emily Bamford, Miss Catherine Wilder, Herbert Usher, Alice White and Hazel Callahan. After the first world war, Feb. 7, 1919 the textile union demand was for the 8 hour day, 48 hours a week and time and a half for overtime. The company accepted this but as the company was only on a 4-day week it didn't make to much difference. The union committee was Bernard Garrigan, Thomas Smith and Bert Smith. This was the beginning of a turbulent decade and a half in labor relations: good times, bad times, both reacted on the weakness and strength of the local unions. On top of this, the division between the conservative and radical union members was so deep that American Woolen had no difficulty in keeping both in line. Feb. 11, 1919: several hundred people gather on Glendale Street for a mass meeting to hear speakers talk on labor troubles in Lawrence. $200 was raised for Lawrence strikers. Apr. 18, 1919: another meeting took place on Walnut Street. May 9, 1919: organizers are reported in town to organize a separate union from the United Textile Workers. May 23, 1919: American Woolen gave a 15% raise to mill employees - this was negotiated by the U.T.W. in February of that year when the 8 hour day was negotiated. This belated raise apparently was given then to strengthen the U.T.W. as against the new radical union being organized. The U.T.W. was weak it this period for a news note of Sept. 1919 tells of the Labor Day parade to Crowe Park in which only the spinners union with a platoon of police and the Imatra and National Bands were present - no Polish or Finnish unionists present. Two months later Nov. 21, 1919 seven hundred weavers walk out in protest against working with non-union weavers. President Golden of the U.T.W, comes into town for discussions. Agent Drechsler of the company says U.T.W. wants a closed shop which the U.T.W. denies - it only wants the alleged non-union members (who are members of the new radical Amalgamated Textile Workers Union) to join the U.T.W. The company declares that it cannot do this - that 3000 employees will be out of work consequently. 200 members of the Amalgamated meet in Polish Hall on Parker Street - they are still at work. They insist that the U.T.W. wants to destroy the Amalgamated and the walk-out was for that purpose. The company refused to negotiate with the national officers of the U.T.W. (Nov. 28, 1919) the weavers remain out, but the rest of the U.T.W. locals remain in until laid off. The spinners meet (Nov. 21, 1919) and decide that spare spinners can only get work by reporting every morning to see if a regular spinner is out. Dec. 5, 1919 news note reports that agent Drechsler decides to keep mill open. The article indicates that the company's purpose is to break the union movement by keeping the two unions at each others throats. The weavers committee was composed of Edwin Carleton, Frank Parks, Francis Johnstone and Henry Slyvert. The company by O.C. Drechsler and Edwin Toop. Actually only 45 weavers belong to the Amalgamated Textile Workers and 616 to the United Textile Workers. Arthur Siipola was the local head of the Amalgamated (Dec.19,1919) The Weavers strike ended after six weeks with concessions by both company and the U.T.W. (Dec. 26, 1919) The co-called non-union weavers were segregated onto the first floor of No. 5 mill; the company recognized the U.T.W. national officers; the union did not demand the closed shop. All in all, the company, by having two antagonistic unions, was the winner of that ball game. The Amalgamated continued to organize and meet but on Mar. 5, 1920 a meeting at Polish Hall on Parker Street was broken up by chief of police Binks and union literature was confiscated. The civil liberties union entered this case as it was a flagrant abuse of police power. On May 7, 1920 the Amalgamated demanded a 44 hour week and a 50% raise in wages with the implied threat that if these were not forthcoming it would close the woolen departments and wet finishing departments causing the whole mill to close. The company countered with an offer of 17½% raise. The U.T.W., which controlled at this time other departments, was happy and the anticipated strike did not materialize as the Amalgamated would have needed the support of the U.T.W. membership. Also, hard times were starting again. Starting in 1922 the fortunes of both unions was at a low level until 1931. The Amalgamated disappeared by the end of that year. The U.T.W. held various organizational meetings during those years but remained weak and ineffectual. Feb. 10, 1922: the sewers tried to reorganize. Mar. 24, 1922: U.T.W. holds mass meeting in Coop Hall with Finnish and English speakers. July 31, 1925: seven hundred meet at Crowe Park for a U.T.W. mass meeting with President Francis Johnstone presiding - wage cuts the issue. The spinners and weavers complain they have been on short time for 6 months - 2 days a week. Weekly meetings were held that year with different departments but nothing seemed to have come of it. Feb. 17, 1928: another organizing campaign was started by the U.T.W. Mar. 16, 1928 an audience of 300 at Coop Hall heard Thomas Ragan, organizer, Joe Bozck in Polish and John Hill in Finnish. Spinners union objects to 10 hours day for women. Aug. 3, 1928: the U.T.W. holds field days at Voses Park with the United Concert Band for music. Oct. 19, 1923: Maynard Textile Council holds benefit dance at Waltham St. Hall for New Bedford strikers - an appeal being made for women's and children's clothing - Francis Johnstone to be contacted as receiver. Mar. 1, 1929: Maynard Textile Council was organized with 7 delegates each from three local unions - Thomas Brock, President; Francis Johnston, Vice-President; Mrs. Albert White, Secretary; and Harold Haskell as Treasurer. Oct. 31, 1930: local 771, Maynard Textile. Council held a mass meeting at Parker St. Hall. By Feb. 27, 1931 the situation had deteriorated to such an extent with the U.T.W. wringing its hands for the past 10 years with every wage cut and working condition worsened, that the new National Textile Workers Union, James P. Reid, organizer, was able to call a strike of the weavers. The demands were: return of 12½% wage cut which was taken in Maynard only which the Maynard Textile Council U.T.W. had agreed to; end of the efficiency system whereby stop watches and pencil tapping of employees' movements were recorded; return of the of the 10% bonus for night work. The company disagrees, so by the following week (Mar. 6, 1931) 500 pickets surrounded the mill. The company then confers with the U.T.W., agreeing to its terms of: "efficiency" out; and U.T.W. and company to discuss any changes in conditions and wages. This forces the smaller National Textile Workers Union to call off its strike with only partial demands met. Next, we hear on Nov. 10, 1933 the U.T.W. in the person of Horace Riviera, holds a meeting at Parker St. Hall with 150 present to organize one big industrial union - no more craft unions. Another meeting follows on Dec. 1, 1933 at the same place. By Sept. 7, 1934 a general strike of all textile workers throughout the nation takes place and 1700 Maynard workers are with them. By Sept. 28, 1934; the strike is over and the mill resumes operations. Wages and conditions, union recognition were the points struck for. The officers elected by the industrial union were: President, William Hill; ???? ????; Vice-Presidents, Thomas Maley, Tony Colombo, William Kitowicz; Sec-Treasurer, Charles Spence; Recording-Secretary, John O'Leary; Conductor, John Moynihan. By Oct. 6, 1939 the mill workers voted at a national labor board election, 1095-1004 to organize into the C.I.O. United Textile Workers Union. The Jan 10, 1941 list of officers of local 140 were: Re-elected President, John O'Leary; Vice-President, Lester Cowles; Sec.-Treasurer, Miss Gladys Mikijaniec; Recording-Secretary, Miss Ann White; Trustees, Robert Robblee, Elmer Mattson, Ben Bundalavich. March 7, 1941: the local signed a 2 year no-strike or lock-out agreement, 10% increase in wages, minimum wage 40 cents an hour. July 16, 1942: the union votes to buy a $1000 War Bond and $100 monthly thereafter. Officers at this time: President John O'Leary; Vice-President Everett Sarvela; Sec.- Treasurer Gladys Mikijaniec; Rec.-Secretary Ann L. White; Trustees Elmer Mattson, John Robblee, Barney Bondelevitch; Sergeant Wilfred Riley, This section of the paper concerning the union at American Woolen Mill be concluded after we have done additional research on the post second world war period. American Woolen closed shop in Maynard 1949-50, so the union disappeared at the same time. We think that (in) reading in chronological order the ups and downs of the labor unions in American Woolen, in retrospect, there can be no disagreement with the statement that if the workers for 50 years could have gotten united and not allowed themselves to be divided by mutual hostilities and by the company, that Maynard and its people today would be much wealthier, healthier and happier. If we retrace ourselves now, there were a few news notes concerning other union activity in Maynard: Nov. 8, 1901: Bartenders local holds dance. Mar. 2, 1906: Carpenters union admits 9 members and discusses demands to be made of contractors. Dec. 19, 1913: Edgar Crannel, Secretary local 21, Marlboro, Cigar makers is in town to boost union label. Aug. 13, 1915: Carpenters local 1418 is holding monthly meetings at Masonic Hall. Aug. 11, 1916: Carpenters union elects Sid Laffin, John Comeau, Thomas Tierney, Dan Dwyer, Dan Colbert, Nelson Roeder, Frank Prue, Adile Crook, Nelson Roeder, Walt Whitman. Apr. 18, 1919: Maynard telephone operators strike. Local 12-A, six operators in Maynard out. Demands are: 1st: six months of service $6.50 week, balance of year $10.; 2nd: to fifth year $11, maximum to be $12, asking $6 weekly increase. Every now and then the barbers used to organize, we have been told, but it did not last. Sept. 14, 1934: Lovell Bus Lines unionized but John Lovell refused to bargain with the amalgamated association of street and electrical employees of America, local 1084. All dates from the Maynard News. Read at the November 1967 meeting of the Maynard Historical Society B.R.Koski Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Organized Labor in Maynard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.255 Description An account of the resource With a textile mill as the center of employment (and economic power) for the first 75 years of Maynard's existence, it is not surprising that labor unions were deeply threaded through those years as well. A detailed chronology of labor unions in Maynard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1967-11 American Woolen Company Finnish labor labor union Maynard Textile Council monograph Polish Union United Textile Workers https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/ab060bf8f280535a37736c45ad4359a5.pdf af5ddcd7cf1d7c8f059caa7b89f63490 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. A newspaper report of June 23, 1899 tells us that a "horseless carriage is expected to be landed in town soon". It has been ascertained that Dr. F. U. Rich was the owner and the first to have an automobile in Maynard. The second and third owners shortly after were Frank Harriman of Harriman*s Laundry and David Loewe, local businessman. Thus opened the era of the horseless carriage. Car ownership for the next decade and a half remained a rarity until Henry Ford started his mass production line and the $5.00 day. During this period, however, the few dealers that sold cars also rented them for pleasure trips (price for a party of two was 50¢ an hour). Businesses and commercial establishments early started converting from the horse-drawn wagon to the horseless carriage. It was not until after the first World War that the auto came into its own. By 1925 the Assessors' report indicated 879 motor vehicles, one for every nine persons in town, and earlier, in 1920, six Socony gas dealers in business in town. The dirt roads of 1900 became macadam during this period, new traffic rules were promulgated as necessity arose, and parking in the rumble seat became a national pastime! The 1967 Town Report records 4508 motor vehicles in town, one for every two people. The movement of people and goods from one place to another has been taken over by the motor vehicle. We would venture to suggest however, that public transportation in the 1970's will of necessity again come into its own, and not necessarily of the Internal combustion type: pollution of the air will force this. Prepared by Birger R. Koskl. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The Horseless Carriage in Maynard Description An account of the resource The automobile came into use shortly after the incorporation of Maynard. A short account of its introduction and growth of the automobile in town life. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca 1967 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.256 automobile Dr. Rich horse monograph transportation https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/89a9702c75c0d552b072aea22531411a.pdf c3bbebf3f07417b887416766400393e5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The first Italians coming to Maynard would be dated sometime in the 1890's for their initial organizational attempt was in 1906. This was the Italian Court of Foresters. The first meeting was in Odd Fellows Hall with Court of Italy of Boston present. (June 15, 1906) The organization was initiated July 20, 1906 (in Oddfellows Hall) with many present from out of town. Court Dante Alighieri of Foresters had the following for officers: S.C.R., Michele Roberts; C.R., Antonio Distasio; Treas. Celestino Colombo; J.W., Carmine DeMarco; S.B., Raffaele Dotoli; Lecturer, Domencio Distasio. There was nothing further in the newspapers so we do not know how long this court existed. The Italian Citizens's Club was organized Nov. 29, 1912 to aid Italians in beconing citizens and to take part in the spring election. The newspaper article goes on to explain that at present there are 11 Italian voters in town, 6 more for spring election. 20 will take out first papers next Saturday, and an estimated 600 Italians in Maynard. The Officers were: President, Joseph Morgandi; Vice President, Angelo Dimonico; Secretary, Ernestino Barilone; Treasurer, Kalle Columbus; Clerk, Joseph Morgandi. Aug. 8, 1913: this club held a picnic at Visocchi's Farm. Nothing further is heard of this club. Dec. 4, 1914: Newsnote tells us of several Italian residents being called back to Italy to serve in the army. This type of conscription was prevalent in the European countries. Aug. 19, 1921: Our next newsnote tells us of the organizational meeting to set up the Sons of Italy with installation of officers on Labor Day. (We have the good fortune to have in our midst in Maynard, Joseph Porrazo, lifetime barber and one of the original members of the Sons of Italy, who kindly consented to writing in its entirety the history of the Sons Of Italy. ------------- Roma Lodge No. 1103 Order of Sons of Italy in America of Maynard, Mass, was instituted on September 5, 1921 at Eagle Hall, Maynard, Mass, under the sponsorship of Italia Nuova Lodge No. 983 Order Sons of Italy in America of Somerville, Mass., in the presence of the Grand Deputy Emissary of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Professor Antonio Dentamaro. There was a Christening and Initiation of the Lodge. The Charter was issued by the Supreme Lodge and was signed by the following: Raimondo lannuzzo, Edwardo Lenzi, and Francesco Santucci, with seventy-seven initial members, men and women. The first Executive Council was composed of: Venerable: Celestino Priiano Assistant Venerable: Edwardo Lenzi Ex. Venerable: Raimondo lannuzzo Orator: Guiseppe Porrazzo Recording Secretary: Giovanino Piacitelli Financial Secretary: Francesco Santucci Treasurer: Ernesto Baroloni 1st Trustee: Vincenzo Lucchesi 2nd Trustee: Salvatore Terrasi 3rd Trustee: Pasquale Veleno 4th Trustee: Rosario Salamone 5th Trustee: Francesco Piacitelli 1st Master of Ceremonies: Nicola Baccaro 2nd Master of Ceremonies: Francesco Colombo Sergeant at Arms: Antonio Veleno Sergeant at Arms: Ernest Mariano Arbitration Committee: Bonifacio Finocchi, Agostino Fava, Vincenzo Russo, Luigi Di Grappa, Rocco Telese Grand Delegates: Bonifacio Finocchi, Agostino Fava Assistant Grand Delegates: Francesco Santucci, Pietro Vaccaro After the installation, the American flag was christened by Teresa Carbone, Godmother, and Vito Carbone, Godfather. The Italian flag was christened by Vincenzo Russo, Godfather, and his daughter Maria Russo, Godmother. The official languages are Italian and English, the emblem of the Order is a golden lion in a field of white, and the motto is "Liberty, equality and fraternity." The lodge meets once a month. Meetings were held at first in the Eagles Hall, corner Nason and Summer Streets, later at Elks Hall on Main Street and at present are held at the Italian Social Club Hall, Waltham Street. The Lodge provides medical services and illness and death benefits to members. The official celebration is Columbus Day, Oct. 12. The Lodge sponsors civic and social activities, and encourages good citizenship for this great nation, America. Joseph Porrazzo Recording Secretary 1962 ---------- Venerables - Roma Lodge No. 1103 Sons of Italy 1921 Celestino Primiano 1922 Edwardo Lenzi 1923 Celestino Primiano 1924 Celestino Primiano 1925 Antonio Mistretta 1926 Antonio Mistretta 1927 Antonio Mistretta 1928 Santo Caruba 1929 Antonio Mistretta 1930 Domenico Mucciaccio 1931 Vincenzo Porrazzo 1932 Raimondo Gandolfo 1933 Salvatore Terrasi 1934 Giuseppe Porrazzo 1935 Michael Veleno 1936 Michael Veleno 1937 Giuseppe Porrazzo 1938 Michael Veleno 1939 Celestino Primiano 1940 Celestino Primiano 1941 Giuseppina Finochi 1942 Pasquale Purrego 1943 Pasquale Purrego 1944 Raimondo Gandolfo 1945 Raimondo Gandolfo 1946 Vincenzo Porrazzo 1947 Vincenzo Porrazzo 1948 Celestino Primiano 1949 Celestino Primiano 1950 Vincenzo Porrazzo 1951 Vincenzo Porrazzo 1952 Giuseppe Porrazzo 1953 Giuseppe Porrazzo 1954 Giovanni Piantedosi 1955 Giuseppe Graceffa 1956 Domenico Mucciacio 1957 Domenico Mucciacio 1958 Domenico Mucciacio 1959 Raimondo Gandolfo 1960 Raimondo Gandolfo 1961 Raimondo Gandolfo 1962 Raimondo Gandolfo Joseph Porrazzo Recording Secretary 1962 ---------------------- Nov. 4, 1927: a news article tells us of a new Italian organization: St. Anthony's Crusaders, holding a dance at Colonial Hall, 400 people in attendance, a Boston dance band for dancing and Andrew Visocchi of Boston playing the accordion for a short concert. January 12, 1933: a news article tells us of the formation of the Italian Social Club at Hall on Waltham Street. The initial officers were: Pres. Raymond Gandolfo, Vice-Pres. Adam Mariani, Rec, Sec'y Vincinzo lannuzzo, Fin. Sec'y Vito Carbone, Treas. Charles Visocchi, Trustees Joseph Morgante, Luigi Tiberio, Pasquale Pareago. ----------------- (The following is again from Joseph Porrazzo: a monograph on the Italian Social Club) The Italian Social Club of Maynard, Mass, was instituted on Dec. 7, 1934 at their own Hall at 64 Waltham St., Maynard, Mass. The Charter was issued by the State of Massachusetts with initial number of seventy-five members. The purpose of this social club is to encourage and to promote social and recreational activities among the people of the Italian Race and of Italian extraction and to stimulate closer and more friendly relationships among them. The Officers of this Club were as follows: President - Adam Mariani Vice President - Charles Visocchi Recording Secretary - Vincenzo lanuzzo Financial Secretary - Patric Porego Treasurer - Vito Carbone 1st Trustee - Loreto Arcieri 2nd Trustee - Antonio Colombo 3rd Trustee - Angelo Curci Marshall - Rinaldo Mariani Custodian - Luigi Primiano Board of Directors: Adam Mariani John Perillo Charles Visocchi Frank Colombo Vincenzo lanuzzo Leonard lanuzzo Felice Micelli Antonio Curci Domenick Greeno Donato Dentino Angelo Curci The Club meets once a month. In the event of the death of any member the Club sends a Floral Tribute and provides a Committee of six members to attend the funeral. Also at the death of any member of the family the Club sends a Floral Tribute. The Club sponsors Civic Activities and encourages good Citizenship for the Town of Maynard. Joseph Porrazzo 35 Walnut Street Maynard, Massachusetts June 1963 ------------------- Dec. 15, 1933: a news note tells us of an Italian-American citizens club meeting at Coop. Hall Sunday afternoon as part of a naturalization drive with Rep. Frank Sheridan addressing the meeting. Feb. 22, 1935. An organizational meeting of a new society, "Our Lady of Indulgence", took place at the Italian Social Club Hall with the following as officers: Head Delegate Mrs. Caroline Visocchi, Officers Virginia Angelosanto and Santa Mariano. 80 were enrolled with Professor Amendo Mariano of Boston giving an address. Mar. 22, 1935: An Italian Citizens Club organized with Michael Lalli as President and Michael Barilone Vice-President at 10 Main Street for clubroom. In the latter 30's Saint Anthony's Society was organized. As of this writing (1969) the Italian people in Maynard still have some of these organizations in their midst: Sons of Italy, Italian Social Club, Our Lady of Indulgence Society, and the Saint Anthony's Society. With the passing of the old guard, and the thrust into the mainstream of American life of the young people of Italian extraction, these organizations are with us but not as strong. May it be said that this light-hearted people of Latin extraction have added a lot of vivacity and spice to the Maynard scene: an extra dimension which would surely have been missed in the hum-drum life of a mill-town. May it continue so. Read at the meeting of The Maynard Historical Society - B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The Italian People in Maynard Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Joseph Porrazo Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.257 Description An account of the resource Shortly after immigrating into Maynard the Italian community created a number of short and long-lived institutions. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969 club immigration Italian Italian Social Club monograph Sons of Italy https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/179b1fee7f00fecf4f73945768508d87.pdf d9b24deed92f11679272f4c74f91721f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The first of the Danes In town we would place around the latter 1880's or early 1890's. They had become numerous enough by December 1, 1899 to hold a dance in their clubroom on Acton Street. We would place the location of this clubroom in one of the two buildings facing the Jewish Synagogue, for they were used for club purposes, No doubt this club was just a social group. Religious services were held in the Union Congregational Church In August 1899 and a new pastor arrived in April 1900. In November 1901 a successful church fair was held In Music Hall and at that time the church had forty communicants. The young Danes organized a club known as Young Danish Peoples' Social Club In March 1903. Maynard Lodge #204, Danish Brotherhood Society, organized December 23, 1904. This fraternal benefit lodge lasted for twenty-five years the following record shows: March 10, 1905: Lodge meets In Odd Fellows Hall. March 15, 1907: The Brotherhood holds masquerade ball in Co-operative Hall. March 3, 1911: Brotherhood holds its annual dance in Hibernian Hall. July 19, 1912: Danish Brotherhood buys land in Stow to erect building. (This was on Hastings Street, just over the town line.) November 7, 1919: Brotherhood welcomes Its boys back from the war. October 4, 1929: Danish Brotherhood to sell hall, The ranks of the old timers had thinned, it Is apparent, We have no record of officers, but Hans Erikson (Erikson's Ice Cream) was one of the stalwarts of this lodge in its latter years. And so the saga of the Danish Invasion ends - Main Street, U.S.A. All dates from the Maynard News. Further information from Mr. George Peterson and Mrs. Harold (Mary Peterson) Edwards. Read at April I969 meeting of Maynard Historical Society B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The Danish People in Maynard Description An account of the resource A short account of how Danish immigrants came and integrated into the Maynard community. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969-04 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.259 Danish Danish Brotherhood Society immigration monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/619e1f0136dad97be024077c0ace0c08.pdf 8a9237ca89ba8e432d103560d9bdfd82 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, 1928 Edition, says this about them: The name given in England to the wandering tribes that since the beginning of the 15th Century have been scattered over Europe. They were supposed by the English to be Egyptians. In France the Gypsies are called Bohemians, from the belief that they were originally Hussites driven from Bohemia. Scholars now believe that the Gypsies are remnants of a tribe from India. Their language is undoubtedly derived from Sanskit, though it is mixed with many words from other languages. They call themselves Rome and their language Romany. For several centuries they were a source of trouble in Europe because of their wandering and thieving habits, though they were protected in Scotland by Royal authority. Maynard began to receive an annual visitation from Gypsies sometime in the 1890's, maybe earlier. Our first firm information about them, is a short news note of Aug. 4, 1899, that "a band of Gypsies are in camp just beyond the Catholic Cemetery." May 11, 1906 news note tells us that "Stanley's Gypsies are located in town". Nov. 3, 1911: article relates that a band of Gypsies have been invading the town from their camp near St. Bridget's Cemetery during the week. A longer piece in the paper of Aug. 4, 1916 tells of a group of Gypsies on Monday creating excitement in town. They were camped on Acton Road, near Parmenter's Crossing on the Acton side Sunday, and made their presence felt by many attempts at petty larceny. They had permission to stay until Monday , then Parmenter side on the Maynard side. In the afternoon six of the women made a shopping tour of the town, helping themselves in some stores and in others trying to cheat the merchants. Chief Binks, officers Sanford Swanson and Harlow Green visited them Monday night. The Chief of the Tribe produced a $1.00 receipt for use of the land for three days. Judge Wilson said they had a right to stay. Chief Binks tried to scare them but they were wise and nothing could budge them. There were about 80 in the band. Many curious people visited the camp to see them. They left town on Tuesday. Our last newspaper note is dated June 4, 1920: Charles Stanley's roving band of Gypsies are making their annual visit to Maynard and are in camp just beyond the Catholic Cemetery. The overall impression is left that the Gypsies had a circuit that was made during the warmer months of every year, The women wove baskets and made other things that they sold or bartered; the men were horse-traders. They came with their tents and belongings in wagons and usually set up shop by Old Mill Road adjoining St. Bridget's Cemetery. They were a colorful people and no doubt titillated the curiosity of the rustics no end. Thieving, possibly to them, was no sin, from stories told by old timers. They must have believed in sharing. Recollections vary, but by the mid 1920's they are not remembered as coming into town. We have been told that a permanent colony of then existed near Fort Meadow between Hudson and Marlboro; also that the men were fiercely handsome. Less than a year ago a Boston paper printed an article about a Gypsy Tribe that was been settled in Boston for many years. Possibly civilization caught up with Stanley's Gypsies in the 20's and that is where they are. Carnivals, circuses, Gypsies - in the old days they all brought a little bit of the outside world to Maynard, for good or bad. All dates are from the Maynard News. Other general information we are indebted to William Salo, Ralph Sheridan and Mrs. Ralph Sheridan. Read at the January 1963 meeting of the Maynard Historial Society. B. R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Gypsies in Maynard Description An account of the resource From the late 1890s to about 1920 a band of Gypsies regularly set up camp on the outskirts of town. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.264 gypsies monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/79380ca805e80317f5b200ce155697ae.pdf 09b6f5e3c171cb21ef383c3f16c6ebba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. - Congress of Friends - - Order of Alfredians - - Nashoba Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men - This paper is concerned with three organizations that existed prior to 1900 in Maynard. We know very little about them for their existence was of such short duration and newspaper coverage was scant. The first organization is the Congress of Friends. Sources available to me do not list this organization at all for State, Regional or National significance. It was an insurance and endowment order. The only news note we have of this order is the following from the Concord Enterprise of July 10, 1891: "A new organization, Congress of Friends, has been instituted in Maynard, is an insurance and endowment order. The officers are: Dr. Rich, Crawford Latham, Levi Cheney and W.W. Oliver". We do not know how long it was active but by 1899, when the Maynard News began publishing, it apparently was no more as this paper did not make mention of it. Of the second organization. Order of Alfredians, we know just as little. It is not listed as a State, Regional or National organization. Possibly the name was adopted from King Alfred of England, indicating a link to English literature. However, with the limitation of membership to Anglo-Saxon Protestants, (as the following news note will show), it might indicate a protective organization against non-protestant elements in Maynard. The aforementioned news note comes from the Concord Enterprise of April 17, 1891. It reads as follows: "The Order of Alfredians has been organized in Maynard with between 25 and 30 members. It is open to Anglo-Saxon Protestants. James Lord is the Secretary". Again, we find nothing in the 1899 Maynard News so this organization died before that. On the third organization, Nashoba Tribe - Improved Order of Red Men, we do have a little more information. The Lincoln Library of Essential Information has this to say of the Red Men: "A Fraternal, Beneficiary and Benevolent Society organized October 14, 1833 and based upon the manners, traditions and customs of the North American Indians. Subordinate bodies are known as Tribes and the Supreme body as the Great Council of the United States. Councils of Pocahantas provide for female membership in the Society. The ritual work of a tribe is divided into three sections of degrees - those of the adoption, the warrior and the chief. The motto of the order is "Freedom, Friendship and Charity". The Nashoba Tribe was organized sometime during the year 1888 for we have two news items from the Concord Enterprise of May 8 and 15, 1891. The first reads as follows: "The Red Men are planning for the third Anniversary to be held at Masonic Hall". The second reports: "The Red Men hold their annual affair at Riverside Hall. E.R. Hooper in charge". The Maynard News of March 23, 1900 reports that arrangements for the anniversary early in May are progressing. However, by 1902, we note from the February 14 issue of the Maynard News the demise of the Red Men. The news note states that the Nashoba Tribe is surrendering its charter as the membership has declined so low. So passed into history three more of the numerous organizations that the citizenry of the town of Maynard has seen fit to bring into existence and as Jim Farrell might say about this paper and its contents: C'est Finis! Read at the meeting of March, 1966 Maynard Historical Society B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Little Known Organizations Description An account of the resource In the early days of Maynard's history three organizations sprang up (which we have little information on): "Congress of Friends", "Order of Alfredians", and "Nashoba Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men". Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.266 Relation A related resource 50 years after this paper was written we now know (a bit) more about these organizations. Searching the web will return citations in books, etc. fraternal organization Levi Cheney monograph organization https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/0a5337ef32366b2155ca6b5bb4c11a0b.pdf 64a477fc3334e59329c8d74ebb06a17e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. This association was born at the Finnish Congregational Church on Walnut Street in October, 1915, with a charter membership of forty-two. (Maynard News, Oct. 22, 1915.) As was mentioned in our paper on the United Cooperative Society of Maynard, this group of forty-two refused to go along with the vote of the Maynard Milk Producers' Cooperative to affiliate with the United Cooperative Society. Their reasons stemmed mainly from political differences as the United Cooperative Society leadership of that period had socialist leanings. The Rochdale principles of cooperation did not apparently prevent the dominant group from throwing its weight around. The first store of the First National was just across the street from the United Coop Society: the comer store presently occupied by Western Auto Store. Milk was processed somewhere on Maynard Hill for home delivery and the store. It opened in March, 1916, approximately as the First Annual Report and meeting of the Society was reported in the Maynard News of March 2, 1917. The building (owned by the Naylors') housed also Banders Clothing Store, which later became the New Idea Store of Sam Lerer. A fire, reported Sept. 15, 1916, caused considerable damage to both establishments but was not fatal. The Association bought the Somerset Hotel property on the comer of Main and River Streets (Mar. 26, 1920) and moved in June 11, 1920. This store is presently occupied by Jacob's Market. The milk room and bakery were added to this at the rear of the building. Membership fluctuated around the two hundred mark through the years. Some of the managers were Lauri Koski, Waino Williams, Alex Sopanch, Toivo Kieki, Tuevo Krekula and Mr. Kaikkonen (first name missing). The Association went bankrupt in 1941, due mostly to the leniency of the management and board of directors during the Great Depression starting in 1929. Members charged or had to charge to fee themselves and unable finally to pay, felt the Association (which was theirs, of course) should support them. And so passed into Maynard history another cooperative alongside the Riverside Coop and the Polish Coop. All dates are from the Maynard News. I am also indebted for additional information to Ralph Sheridan, Mrs. Rachel Aho, and especially to Veeti Taival, sixteen and a half secretary to the Association. Read at the November 1968 meetirig of the Maynard Historical Society -B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: First National Cooperative Association of Maynard Description An account of the resource A small Finnish cooperative that was born out of a political differences with the United Coop. It operated for about 2 decades. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ralph Sheridan Rachel Aho Veeti Taival Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.269 co-operative Finnish Congregational Church monograph Somerset Hotel United Co-operative Society https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/d83f631b4070e9f971e27317fe53911f.pdf 1613c641a14bf4096514908fc925bb44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. An article of July 12, 1918 tells us that the idea of this Circuit originated in the mind of a Dr. J. H. Vincent, a patron of learning. Originally this Association was chartered by the State of Pennsylvania but later moving to Chautauqua, New York. The purpose of this Association (January 19, 1917) was "to send speakers to communities to uplift family life which does not take enough interest in literature and social uplift of town. Ticket sellers, ushers, other male help, are mostly college boys getting their education from its lessons. Young girls are college women, their presence in the community helps it by their high standards". It was the custom of Chautauqua to display banners of the towns on its route. It was discovered that Maynard did not have any colors so H. Linwood White, a member of the Grange, was delegated to request the Grange to sponsor an article for the next town meeting to obtain colors for Maynard. A group of sponsors for each town had to guarantee a minimum amount of money for the Circuit and these sponsors signed a contract to that effect. A huge tent was erected ori the high school grounds on Summer Street approximately where the gymnasium is, and for five days, afternoon and evening, speakers, plays, singers would entertain. The first group of sponsors were the following in January 19, 1917: Kenneth Damren (Chairman), Rev. A.H. Osgood (Secretary), Bertha N. Osgood, E. J. Toop, H. Linwood White, Mrs. Howard Wilson, Mrs. Orrin Fowler, F. P. Flagg, William Millington, C.J. Lynch, C.H. Persons, M. B. Church, Arthur Walker, George Elson, G.H. Merrick, W.D. Priest, William Gutteridge, C.H. Stanley, Ralph Case, W.A. Haynes Co., W.F. Litchfield, Dan Goodenow, G.A. Theodore, Harry Bates, Edward J. Flaherty, Kenneth Damren, George F. Morse, C.J. Morse, Howard Case, William B. Case, J.S. Peterson, Frank E. Taylor, F.A, May, A.T. Haynes, Horace Bates, Arthur J. Sullivan, James Hilferty, 0.C. Drechsler, William Naylor, Howard Hamblin, Mrs. G.B. Hooper, Sidney McCleary, Samuel Lerer, George Gutteridge, Mrs. L.H. Maynard, James A. Coughlan, C.A. Stetson, Arthur Coughlan, Amory Maynard, Herbert Mallinson, John Ingham, W.R. Peterson. At the next meeting, February 23, 1917, held at Co-op Hall to plan for the next summer's program, a quartet composed of Arthur Sullivan, Albert Goettler, Everett Toop, George Coggswell, Mrs. Harry Andrews, pianist, sang. June 21, and July 12, 1918 meetings of the guarantors saw Kenneth Damren as President; Mrs. Carl Stockbridge, Secretary; Sidney McCleary, Treasurer; and close to a hundred guarantors. May 30, 1919 - George Elson, President; Mrs. Joseph Schnair, Secretary; William Naylor, Treasurer. From 1920 through 1929 when Chautauqua ended, possibly because of the depression, William Naylor continued as President. July 16, 1920 saw the addition of Junior Chautauqua. This was the local school children who would put on a show or play the last day of the program. This was later called Junior Town. Up to a hundred children participated. Mrs. Adelaide Sims usually directed the doings for the children. As an aside, may we mention that two of our Society Members in 1928 were in this group: Winifred Tobin Kearon and Elizabeth Schnair. Admission was charged to the programs: 50¢ afternoon, 75¢ evening, season ticket (10 performances) $2.50, and junior ticket $1.00. We do not know if the purposes of the Circuit were fulfilled in Maynard, but the motives were high-minded enough. All dates are from the Maynard News. We are indebted to Elizabeth Schnair for additional information. Read at the Meeting of the Maynard Historical Society B.R. Koski Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Chautauqua Circuit Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.270 Description An account of the resource Chautauqua was a traveling adult education and social movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It came to Maynard starting in 1917 and continued through 1929. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca 1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elizabeth Schnair Chautauqua education entertainment monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/72a8fa6cde6a666d2d665a908a2f0809.pdf 780b311ad7d9151a41e73401e86d2b48 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. In the old days traveling groups of entertainers would make a circuit of towns large enough to warrant a one-day stand. They would send advance agents into a community to drum up interest for the group that would come later. Some of the larger groups would remain longer than aday. They added zest and excitement to lives of people before cars, radio and television - lives that were insulated greatly from the outside world. No matter that most of the entertainment was second-rate or cheap - it was a change from the hum-drum existence of day-to-day life. As with all things, once the need disappears, the thing itself disappears; and so it was with these groups. In 1968, now, only two groups come into town: carnivals hired by the American Legion Post and St. Bridget's Church. Our records are sparse. We have a few newspaper notes only of Maynard being visited. These groups did not advertise in the papers as is done today, it was word-of-mouth and hand-bills. The first date is July 26, 1901: The Saxonians Comedy Company entertainers and specialty stars will give a series of entertainments in Maynard all next week at their pavilion, corner of Glendale and Summer Street - admission 10 and 20 cents. The pavilion, of course, was a tent. The location was the present grounds of Anderson Ford used car lot on Acton Street. June 6, 1913: The Downey and Wheelers Circus will be in Marlboro, and the Selectmen in Maynard have granted a license to the Sautelle Circus, which will show Monday, June 30. May 14, 1915: On Wednesday, D. F. Knowlton of Lowell set up a Merry-go-Round on a lot at corner of Glendale and Acton Streets. Before the large garage on River Street, situated practically on the corner of River and Main Streets was built, (presently housing the Middlesex Laundry Self-Service) this lot was used in the latter 10's and early 20's by carnivals and circuses. Also, the area at and about 98 Summer Street (James Ledgard's home) was built up, where Spark's Three-Ring Circus with elephants and other wild animals would come yearly in the 1920's. The Legion Post for years now has been hiring a carnival around the Fourth of July to appear at the Rev. Crowe Park for raising funds for the organization; and St. Bridget's Church has done the same on its grounds at the Parochial School. The children enjoy these tremendously: the merry-go- round, pop corn, taffy, hot dogs, all the whirling things that make up a carnival. The parents, not so much, for it is a continuous dipping into the pocket, but as the French say, 'C'est la vie' - it's the kids' night out! All dates are from the Maynard News. I am indebted to Ralph Sheridan for additional information. Read at the February, 1968 meeting of the Maynard Historical Society "” B. R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Carnivals and Circuses Description An account of the resource Before entertainment was available at the push of a button, the arrival of a carnival or circus in town would bring a little bit of excitement to quiet town life. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ralph Sheridan Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.271 American Legion carnival circus entertainment monograph Saint Bridget Church https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/e84124015d5c11260a51a4b8dbad0df8.pdf cca796080df8964873155ea61089f2d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The Lincoln Library has the following to say about the International Order of Good Templars: "A Fraternal Society having for its object the promotion of total abstinence from the use of alcoholic beverages and of universal prohibition of the manufacture and sale of such products. Membership is unrestricted by age, sex or color. A committee appointed by the governing body of the Society inaugurated the Prohibition Party in 1869. In 1874, Good Templar women founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union". The Iola Lodge No. 91, International Order of Good Templars was instituted in Assabet Village February 19, 1866 with fifty charter members. Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Riley of Stow being instrumental in this. At first the lodge met in Union Hall, part of the Methodist Church, then removing to the Vestry of the Congregational Church. Later it rented Riverside Hall on Main Street, finally having its own quarters about 1888 in Darling's Block, comer of Nason and Summer Streets, the present abode of the Eagles. In 1893 the Associated Templars were formed in town. From the record it is not clear why the formation of this group, as an Associated Templar had to be a member of the parent body. This group had a membership in 1902 of about forty. The activities of The Good Templars Lodge centered on temperance work. Meetings and entertainments at their own hall plus larger temperance affairs at Music Hall was the order of the day. Mr. Frank Coulter, now of Stow, who was Secretary of the Lodge from 1900 on for a certain amount of years told me an amusing anecdote of a meeting held in Music Hall. The speaker from Boston held forth with fire and brimstone -a veritable vocal male Carrie Nation. Sometime after the meeting lo and behold, he was discovered in one of our wet spots, "tanking it up", in Mr. Coulter's colorful language. His explanation was ingenious indeed: he needed the experience better to convert his audience to abstinence! Other officers with Mr. Coulter in 1900 were Robert Archer, Emma Archer, Sydney Coulter, Chris Wilson, George Robertson, Ada Bower, Edith Woddart. The Associated Templars held dances and had an active Bicycle Club of about a dozen members, riding on weekends to Waltham, Worcester and further afield. We have spoken of this club in our paper on the Bicycle Clubs of Maynard. No known records exist when the Good Templars dissolved. Our last date in the newspapers about the Associated Templars was in 1907 advertising a dance. Most of the factual material in this paper came from the Maynard News: June 2, 1899; Feb. 2, Mar. 9and March 16, 1900; March 1902 and Feb, 15, 1907. I am indebted to Jim Farrell for directing me to Frank Coulter and also to Mr. Coulter for his reminiscences. Read at January 30, 1966 Meeting of The Maynard Historical Society B.R. KOSKI Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The First Lodge in Maynard Description An account of the resource The International Order of Good Templars, who promoted total abstinence from alcoholic beverages, had a lodge in Assabet Village, prior to Maynard's incorporation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-01-30 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.272 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Frank Coulter bicycle fraternal organization Iola lodge monograph Music Hall society temperance Templars https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/f26dd3bfc747628b7acdef8a51d05519.pdf 615d01bf9f2703947fc15568145961c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. JAMES B. FARRELL 1886 - 1968 It has been related That he hated wakes - For a part of Jim died With the passing of every friend. We hated Jim's wake - The wit, the sallies, the voice Raised in song, no more; A part of all of us died that evening. He was of Maynard's History - the human part, And helped to chronicle it, His father one of seventy-one To sign the Charter in '71. A part of all of us died that evening. B.R. Koski Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Tribute to James Farrell Description An account of the resource James Farrell was a frequent contributor and speaker in the nascent years of the Maynard Historical Society. He passed away in 1968, four years shy of the Centennial celebration he helped shape. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.275 monograph