Now I could have included this for December because it's a great looking old house, decorated for Christmas, but actually I had another reason. The recent publication of Paul Curran's book of many of his Milford history articles included one titled Milford's Other Librarians, and it begins with the following paragraph.
Pine Street - number 42 Congress Street - the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Buma. From that earlier household would come two of the early librarians of Wellesley College, and from that house, Melvil Dewey, the designer of the Dewey Decimal System, would be married. Paul E. Curran, Milford Chronicles.
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On the November page, I included a picture of a medicine label for our cat with the warning that he shouldn't drive or operate heavy machinery while on it . (No problem there so far.) A couple of days ago I noticed another interesting warning. This one came with our new water heater. Seems it could be damaged if you drive your car into it. I'm in luck. I don't have a garage, and I'm not likely to get the car into the cellar. |
And here we have yet more neighboring town photos. The mysterious Upton cave. Unlike our last visit a year ago, it was much drier this time and we got all the way in. Click here for more. |
December 1 |
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The Statue of Hope, under cover for the winter. |
Community House inside and out. |
December 7 - The Parklands - It might be hard to tell in this photo, but the guy was riding a unicycle. It took me a couple of seconds after he passed us to get my camera out of my pocket and get the picture. |
Fitzgerald Drive - December 10 |
Hopedale Village Cemetery - Burial service for my brother-in-law, Normand Piette - December 10. |
A little snow on the holly by my front steps - December 10. |
Dutcher Street - December 10 |
on a leak at the intersection of Inman and Tammie - December 14. |
I took the last picture. It hasn't been much warmer all day. Snow has been coming down for much of the day and 6 to 8 inches is expected overnight. Most, or maybe all of these guys will be plowing after the water main job is done, so they'll be out all night and probably well into the day tomorrow. . |
It hadn't occurred to me that the ice was safe until I saw some people out on the pond fishing earlier today. (Saturday, December 14) Late in the afternoon, these folks were getting some skaing time in before the ice is buried under snow. |
Inman Street - December 15 - Between five and six inches of very wet snow fell overnight. Happy to say my new snowblower worked very well. It's an Ariens and has several features that are an improvement over the Husqvarna that I used to have. |
when I'm in the yard. He's moving this week.. |
Above - Town Park with some work going on in 1909. They had a baseball diamond well before that, but must have been improving it. Below, with some snow falling on it on 104 years later . |
December 18 - Yesterday's snow on Ballou Park. (And on Ballou, too.) |
Runners passing the library - December 19. |
Bancroft at the Bancroft Memorial Library. Click here to read the Milford Daily News article about it. |
The Christmas train, about to leave Hopedale for Upton and North Grafton - December 20. |
The Unitarian Church and a bit of the Community House. Winter arrived about an hour before this picture was taken, but it was a balmy day in the mid-50s. |
Look at that smile. I guess he hasn't noticed the temperature. |
A few puddles on the ice wasn't enough keep this fisherman at home. |
Here's the snowman mid-morning on the 22nd, about 18 hours after he looked so young and healthy in the previous photo. The temperature was 61.when I took today's picture. |
Hopedale Street - December 14 |
Freedom Street |