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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Literary Medford. (search)
vidual, Water and Waste, Ice, Sewer Gas and Plumbing, City's Noise and City Housing. The text of the book is: Whether we wish it or no, to keep ourselves we must be our brother's keeper. Only when we strive to guard our neighbors are our own walls secure. He has also written an unusual story called The Man Who Ended War, and two juvenile stories, For the Norton Name, and Jack Collerton's Engine. Prof. Leo Rich Lewis and Leon Ryder Maxwell compiled The Assembly Praise Book. Ruth Dame Coolidge is a contributor to periodicals, the editorial page of the Boston Transcript, and has given a course of lectures on architecture. In the January number of the present year of the Tufts College Graduate is an appreciation by Prof. Charles St. Clair Wade, of the personality and the poetry of Grace Harvey Lane, who lived her all too short life in Medford, graduating from the Medford schools and Tufts College. Her poetic translations won great praise. Professor Shipman said she had ma
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame Ruth Dame Coolidge if the history of the Medford High School were a sermon, there could be only one text, and that taken from the words of one of the first committee men of Medford, the Rev. Charles Brooks: As is the teacher, so is the school. Founded in 1835, the infant high school struggled for ten years under seven different masters, until it fell upon peaceful days under Mr. Charles Cummings for thirty years. Then followed almost twenty-seven years under Lorin L. Dame,—a phenomenal record of fifty-seven years under two masters. While Mr. Cummings was still teaching his small flock of less than a hundred pupils, the next master was receiving his education in Lowell and Tufts College, from which he was graduated in 1860 with an almost perfect record of scholarship. In the winter terms he had undertaken the short teaching terms then in fashion, and the old town school reports are still in existence, praising the young student teac
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Medford Historical Society. (search)
nt. The Society's Honorary members are Moses W. Mann. Mrs. Elizabeth J. C. Mann. Charles H. Loomis. Committees. Publication. Joseph C. Miller, Jr. Miss Katharine H. Stone. Moses W. Mann. Papers and Addresses. Mrs. Ruth D. Coolidge. Charles T. Daly. Miss Lily B. Atherton. Hall Gleason. Edward T. Bigelow. Membership. The Entire Membership. Library. Moses W. Mann. Charles T. Daly. Hon. William Cushing Wait. Historic Sites. Miss Ella L. Burbann. Howard D. Brown. Edward B. Brown, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Miss Ella L. Burbank. Charles O. Burbank. Charles B. Buss. Fred P. Carr. Miss Elizabeth R. Carty. George G. Colby. Mrs. Marion C. Conant, Weston. Hon. Richard B. Coolidge. Mrs. Ruth D. Coolidge. Life MemberAndrew F. Curtin. Life MemberWalter F. Cushing. Mrs. Carrie E. Cushing. Charles T. Daly. Miss Mary E. I. Davenport. Mrs. H. Abbie Dearborn. Edward B. Dennison. Miss Jessie M. Dinsmore. Charles B. Dunham. Will
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
The Cradock house, past and future. [Read before the Medford Historical Society by Ruth Dame Coolidge.] THERE is something peculiarly sacred about old tradition. The halo of antiquity hangs about an old house, imbuing it with the mystery and romance of days long gone. So when the modern student ventures to dispel the haze with the rude breath of scientific criticism, he is assailed as a heretic and a vandal. About the Cradock house was such a halo, and even today, my little resume of all that I could glean about the old brick house on Riverside avenue (properly Ship street), is headed by the title of Cradock house. And in spite of all we can do or say it is probable that it will be known as the Cradock house for years to come. A lie travels a mile while truth is getting his boots on, runs the old proverb, and the tradition which apparently assumed its first form in the splendid history of Medford by Rev. Charles Brooks is more potent than the infinite accuracy of Judge Wai
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Renovation of Peter Tufts' house. (search)
rum and old houses, which threw little light on the real history of the old house which is really a monument of olden time. We readily concede that, and in reply ask, how old? It is a remarkable structure. Who built it? and when? are reasonable queries and certainly worthy of an answer. Seen, while riding along the street during the years, like those Charlestown people who have never ascended the monument, I had never been upon its ground or within it till the time referred to by Mrs. Coolidge in her recent address. All these views presented are worth careful scrutiny. Considering that this fine old house has been claimed as oldest in America, a big book might be written regarding the first and early houses, and therefore the oldest houses of the colonists, and of their form, plan and method of construction. Peter Tufts builded better than he knew. He adopted a rectangular form of two stories covered by a gambrel roof, practically a three-floored or storied house, encl
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., Foreword. (search)
t Lexington. Nancy and Mercy Brooks are the eighteen-and twelve-year-old nieces of Abigail, who lived in the house behind the slave wall on the east side of Grove street. Abigail Brooks is another heroic figure, who not only ministered to the minutemen, but who, after the death of her husband, a victim to his patriotism, brought up her family with rare management, and has among her descendants Phillips Brooks, Francis Parkman and Peter Chardon Brooks. The Tavern in the square. by Ruth Dame Coolidge. Scene, Medford square, before Royal Oak Tavern. afternoon, April 19, 1775. Characters in order of entrance. Belinda. Old colored woman in service of Isaac Royall. Abigail. Thirteen-year-old daughter of Capt. Isaac Hall. Harry Bond. Blacksmith from Mystic Avenue. Scotch-Irish; killed at Bunker Hill; patriots met and discussed at his home. Jonathan Porter, proprietor of Royal Oak Tavern. Twenty-seven years old; came to Medford from Malden, 1773; commissioned second lieu