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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Bogus history. (search)
ter, simply repeated Mr. Brooks' assertion. What are historians for, except to follow one another's tracks and repeat one another's errors? But there is no use in real historical research unless you tell the truth; and though the gentlemen of the Medford Historical Society greatly regretted to dispel a treasured local illusion, they had to do it. In the above quotation, the Nomad asks a pertinent query, and his somewhat conditional reply is well illustrated by Mr. Brooks' successor, Mr. Usher, in his work of 1886, a practical reprint of the History of 1855. But who were the gentlemen of the Historical Society, the iconoclasts who assailed the bogus history, and established beyond doubt the identity of the house in question? In reply we name three: Hon. William Cushing Wait, in his article on Maps of Medford, Mr. Walter H. Cushing, in The Cradock Farm, both read at Society meetings and published in the Register. Then, Mr. John H. Hooper took up the burden of proof, by a car
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Another moving scene. (search)
value caused its demolition, but taking another journey across Boston, the old steeple, clock and bell found a resting place on the Van Nostrand brewery near Sullivan square, until the spring of 1921. Then came its third removal, witnessed by people along the route through Somerville and Medford. The way to Arlington was along the line of least resistance, longer but more level and also crooked. Each story was carried separately by a six-horse team, crossing the river by Auburn street and Usher bridges to the new edifice of Calvary church (Methodist Episcopal) on Massachusetts avenue. There by means of a big spar derrick it was reassembled upon the church tower. This new structure, although of wood, in form and outline resembles King's Chapel of Boston. The latter, erected before Bulfinch's time, never had any surmounting turret or spire. But it is said that Bulfinch designed one for it, and also the colonnade around the tower which was later added thereto. A colonnade is a fea
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The devil's fiddle. (search)
similar tins attached by one taut string would answer each other without injury to any finger tips— and four years later came the telephone. But who amid the nerve distracting sounds of 1871 would have dared to prophecy what is fact in 1921, and here in Medford? It has taken the telephone fifty years to reach its present state of perfection. Wireless telegraphy has been known only half as long, and the wireless telephone but a few years. Who would then have dared to predict that fifty years later the following bit of history would be found in public print? Radiophone concerts are given regularly every Wednesday evening at 8.30 . . . at Medford Hillside. Thousands of amateurs, within a hundred miles radius of Boston, are able to listen in on these wireless concerts.—Boston Transcript, June 11, 1921. It is a far cry from the concert of the Mustard Pot Band, noted by Editor Usher, in which devil's fiddles, big and little, screeched and squealed, to such as are noted ab
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., Troubles of a Medford churchman. (search)
ymouth and the Puritans of Boston in their ideas of toleration. The one had been tolerated in Holland, the other would tolerate none dissenting from their views, and early became dominant in New England. How fared it with the Baptists, the Quakers, or those who held to the liturgical worship of the Church of England? In the colony's history what they endured is unpleasant to read. In Medford's history little is written or known. Mr. Brooks made no specific local mention thereof, but Mr. Usher alludes to one case of clash between a Medford churchman and an officer of the law. His story is quoted quite fully by Mr. Hollis, the chronicler of Grace Church (Register, Vol. V, p. 25). Of this case we have never seen any other account in American print, and are left in doubt as to its final outcome. The Medford records (Vol. 2, p. 314, 315, 316) contain a list of one hundred and twelve names, rated (i.e., assessed) the sum of One hundred Pounds being ye Ministers Rate for ye year 1