For our Annual Meeting program, please click here and download the document. It contains our agenda and slate of officers for 2022. Coming up on November 7 at 2PM, join us as we welcome Townsend native Bill Pavao as he shares a bit of history about his time as curator of the Lizzie Borden Bed…
Category: Local History
Upcoming Program – “Virtually Vintage: A Live, Online Antique Appraisal Event” – October 10th
The Townsend Historical Society is excited to be bringing back one of our most popular types of programs! On Saturday, October 10th from 10:00 – 1:00, the Townsend Historical Society will be hosting “Virtually Vintage: A Live, Online Antique Appraisal Event”. We’re thrilled to be partnering once again with Wayne Tuiskula of Central Mass Auctions,…
The smallest of stitches, the most important of lessons
Tamara Buckley Leclerc 6/9/2020 I admit, I am a clothing fanatic however, it is not of today’s clothing, but those of yesterdays. Small stitches of polished cotton, raw linen, decorative intricate stitches made by dim candlelight, stitches to repair a worn garment, or let out as a child grows. Hands that held the same fabric…
Memorial Day, 2020
In honor of Memorial Day yesterday we’d like to share a photograph from a Memorial Day nearly a century ago, when the Military Band gathered on May 30th, 1927 in a West Townsend cemetery to remember those who had fallen in service of our country. We’re thinking this must be Riverside Cemetery where our friend…