Roper page by someone in another country. |
For the neighboring town photos for February, here are a couple from Milford. Left, the Barney Coal (now Medway Oil according to a sign on the side door) with the nice, old Reading anthracite sign. Below, the Irish tower at St. Mary's Cemetery. I didn't break the lock on the door, but since someone did, I decided I might as well go in for a picture. |
In the picture above, the house that was the Durgin home in 1936 is the one on the left. The houses in the picture below were built later, so that area might have been "Durgin's grounds" where the "circus" was held. Click here for more on the circus. |
Hopedale in February 2014 Ezine for February 1 - A Kid's Paradise Ezine for February 15 - The Drapers in Uxbridge Ezine Menu HOME . |
Adin Ballou Park was right behind our house and it was a favorite place to play. At times we gave the good ol’ Adin statue something for his outstretched hand, like a snowball, or an orange, or an old baseball, and once we dangled an old purse from his fingers. From Michael Connelly's memories of growing up in Hopedale in the 1960s. |
Here are some Hopedale statistics from a website called homeactions. net Some of it is a bit hard to believe. I'd say the air and water are a lot better than it says. I looked at some other ZIPs and most of the numbers seem right, but water and air can be goofy. I tried 02134 (Remember ZOOM?) Quabbin Reservoir MWRA water, and it gets a 1. |
and another into Chinese. i knew it had been done by a Google Translate program, but I didn't know that you could just put the URL to a page in, pick a language and click for the translation until my son, DJ, told me about it. I gave it a try, and what you have above is part of the town hall page in Icelandic. |
A little snow fell on Monday, the third, with more predicted for Wednesday and Saturday. |
"The foundry department of the Hopedale Machine Co., by their Superintendent, Mr. Frank J. Dutcher, has presented two bronze tablets to be placed at the outside entrance. They bear in raised letters the words, 'Public Library and Reading Room - Free to All.' The Dutcher Temple Co. has finished them and firmly secured them to the building. The material, aluminum bronze, is imperishable and the invitation will never grow old. We have never heard questioned the absolute freedom of Public Libraries from sectarian or political influences, except perhaps in the composition of boards of management, and whatever these may be, the searcher for knowledge in a free public library is given the book he asks for and may read what he pleases." For the Library Trustees, William N. Goddard, secretary, February 1, 1889. The plaque was on the town hall where the library was located, until the opening of the Bancroft Library in 1899. About fifteen years ago it was retrieved from the town hall and can now be seen above the inner front door at the Bancroft Library. |
Wednesday, February 5 - Not a good day for a bird to take a bath. The snow was expected to fall for about another five hours after I took this picture. Meanwhile, I've been hearing from Peter Metzke in Melfourne that the temperature has been around 43 to 44. Since that's pretty well over 100 Fahrenheit, I'd just as soon have the snow. |
Hopedale Pond - February 4 |
Spindleville Pond - February 4 |
Here's the M.C. Machine Company in Spindleville. You can take a look at their website if you'd like to see what's made in there. |
Spring is just around the corner. |
But for now, winter activities continue on Hopedale Pond If you'd like to see it in warmer weather, click here to see it all through 2013 on YouTube. |
I found that the site is in Cyrillic (I guess that's what this is, anyway) when I noticed someone in the Ukraine was looking at the Gilbert Thompson page. For anyone who might be interested in Gilbert, but would prefer English, here he is. Okay, okay, enough. Time to stop putting all these translations on here. |
A fairly impressive icicle hanging from my back porch - February 11. |
I wonder if there's anyone left in town who still calls this intersection Patrick's Corner. This picture was taken a little before 8 AM on February 13. Usually the traffic is backed up as far as you can see at that time, but evidently the weather prediction was keeping people home. A little snow was falling at the time, and it picked up quite a bit over the next half hour. |
Getting ready for the storm at the Highway Department. |
I took this picture looking out past the icicles and apple trees into my backyard and beyond at !2:30 on the 13th. The snow has been really coming down for a few hours now. I took a little walk around town between 7:45 and 8:30 this morning, and the four pictures above this one were taken then. |
Looking out the front window at one on the afternoon of the 13th. |
ChingChing doesn't come downstairs much, but here she is, thinking about it. |
Inman Street, February 17. I put these pictures on mainly for you people in Florida and other warmer locations who seem to enjoy seeing them. I even got down low when I took the picture to exaggerate the look of the snowbank a bit. |
February 18, 6:30 am. |
Okay, Florida folks, here are a few more for you. These were taken just hours after the "Red sky in the morning, drivers take warning" picture. I took the one with the glove at 10 and the other two at noon. It hadn't snowed in two or three days, so we were due. |
February 19 - Rain is such a change from the usual weather this winter, I thought I'd try some pictures through the car windshield. |