Mmmm, yeah, well, good to have that cleared up.. |
Crossroads Clubhouse, formerly The Larches. Click here to read about it when the first home on the site was the mansion of George Otis Draper, and the one in the picture was built by Hannah Thwing Draper Osgood. |
The Concert by Vermeer was Isabella Stewart Gardner's first major acquisition. It was stolen from the Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990. |
high school basketball was played at the town hall. |
Snowbank - March 1 |
Hopedale in March 2015 Ezine for March 1 - The Free Love Episode March 15 ezine - The Draper Business, 1856 - 1878 Hopedale in February Snow in January, February and March HOME . |
Snow blowing off Draper roof. |
Vol. 1, No. 1 - At last, a monthly newspaper for Hopedale. |
It's about time to order strawberry plants for this year, and you won't get a better deal than 100 for $1.00. After looking around a bit, I found an inflation calculator that goes back that far. It gave $28.57 as what the dollar in 1858 would be equal to now. I took a look at the Gurney site to see what they would cost now. For the variety I looked at, it's $52 for 100. |
Out of 351 towns and cities in Massachusetts, Hopedale ranks 46th in divorce rate. Here's a link to the WCVB page with that bit of news. Maybe I'll get back to it later to find out who can go around yelling, "WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!!" Okay, just checked on that. It's Edgartown at 33%.
when your stuck on an island.
not exactly true. It's how many people living in that town are currently divorced. So you could have divorced eighteen times, but if you're currently married to spouse number nineteen, you're not counted in the divorce number in the statistic shown. |
After office hours ended on Friday, March 6, Dr. Park (Park Place Dental Associates, 54 Hopedale Street) and two of the women from his office, Brenda and Jess, took advantage of the beautiful blue sky day to climb to the top of the snow farm behind their office and plant the flag. In the picture below, taken on February 12, you can see the beginnings of the pile, going from the middle left, past the highway barn and over toward the medical building. A huge amount of snow has been added there since that picture was taken. The four photos above were taken just past the Dumpsters that can be seen in the middle of the picture below. |
Tennis anyone? |
Hampshire's online collection of topo maps. Hopedale maps menu. |
A fork in the road. Yes, I know, a worn out old joke .The Muppets and others have done it (much larger fork, though) but when I saw it while I was walking along Dutcher Street, I couldn't resist. |
Maple tree on Inman Street being taken down. If you live in Hopedale and have a tree near the street cut down, in addition to the cost to the tree company, plan on another $400 for traffic control. |
A couple of little items from the Milford Journal, 1892. They read like nineteenth century spam. |
ancestry in Massachusetts? It's a surprise to me, but that's what the WCVB site says. This was another find by my son DJ (aka Dan), who also came up with the divorce statistic on this page. |
Click here for more on Aerosmith in Mendon and Hopedale. |
It feels like spring. Amazing how fast the snow is going down. |
Happy Pi Day |
I wasn't about to buy a card and a stamp when I could send you all these this way for nothing. |
Irish Tower, St. Mary's Cemetery, Milford |
Evacuation Day, March 17, 1776 - The end of the Siege of Boston. |
March 21 - First full day of spring. |
The recycling center |
The old recycling center in the Draper parking lot. |
Mill River, looking downstream from the Thwing Street bridge. |
Moon and Venus - March 22. |
Passenger cars for the Polar Express are still here - March 24. |
Another sign of spring. |
Spindleville Pond - March 27 |
Click here for more from the G&U yard on March 29. |