by Nancy Bertrand, with assistance from WHS files notes As the 250th Anniversary of the United States approaches, the Town of Wakefield in a very real sense has already marked significant anniversaries. By mid-April, 1775, the town was already in a state of high alert, resulting from the conflict situation with the British government. Although they publicly sought…
The story of another veteran teacher at Wakefield Public Schools receives our Women’s History Month profile today. This one is particularly dear to our hearts, as you will see in her profile. The Wakefield Daily Item ran a page one story upon her retirement: “Miss Mabel Adelaide Kernan, of 20 Gould Street, principal of the…
For today’s Wakefield’s Women profile, the Wakefield Historical Society will salute one of its own in the person of Miss Ruth A. Woodbury. Born of ancient Yankee stock in 1902, Ruth was the daughter of Dr. Frank Woodbury (who descended from Mayflower settlers) and Mary H. Whittle Woodbury, who traced her own lineage to the…
Women in Wakefield: Rebekah Evans. Today’s Wakefield’s Women’s History Month spotlight is on Rebekah Evans, whose sketch is provided here. She is the grandmother of one of our previous subjects, Harriet Newell Flint, the donor of our Civil War Monument. When searching for some representative women to write about for this series, it is…
As we enter the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War, it seems fitting to dedicate one of our Women’s History Month tributes to the town’s women during that period. The war actually lasted for seven long years, from Concord and Lexington past the battle of Yorktown, but the early period was probably the most terrifying…
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