May 2024
MHSM Family Program: Meet ‘Kaiser’
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents a special Sunday afternoon program for kids and families to see and learn about the museum’s stuffed carrier pigeon, “Kaiser.” The program will share information about carrier pigeons — how they were trained, how they carried information, and how they were an important part of the communication internet in the past. Presenters will introduce the pigeon named “Kaiser” who served in World War I and explain how he came to Medford, where he…
Find out more »Medford Historical Society & Museum Annual Meeting
The Medford Historical Society & Museum will conduct its 2024 annual meeting at the Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library. The agenda will include highlights of accomplishments over the past year as well as a financial report. Members in good standing will be able vote on the proposed Board of Directors slate for 2024-25, as per a letter sent to members in the mail. Non-members are welcome to attend the meeting (and to join the MHSM). Following the meeting,…
Find out more »Sacco and Vanzetti: Inciting Passions a Century Later
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents a talk by Dennis J. Curran, a retired justice from the Massachusetts Superior Court, titled "The Murder Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti: Inciting Passions a Century Later." On April 15, 1920, a robbery and double murder in South Braintree, Massachusetts, led to the arrest of two Italian anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. They were tried and convicted at Dedham Superior Court in 1921. No one could have foreseen that this local criminal…
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