TWO OBSCURE ITEMS IN NORTH BROOKFIELD'S PAST

My year as a grocery clerk and delivery boy at LaBelle's Food Center proved to be revealing! Not only did I get the weather forecasts from taxi driver Charlie Bush I was recipient of local history and poignant events from F. James McCarthy.


The story of the Ku Klux Klan and Bert Boynton persisted. The late twenties saw the Catholics versus the Protestants in NB. It was real and things happened such as a big cross burning in the location of the Sportsman Club. Another family by the name of Moody was a Klucker. Jim related "one person was dunked in the horse watering trough!


The other event occurring in thee late thirties was the heist of the North Brookfield Savings Bank. Newspaper accounts were shared with Kirk Burnham formerly of the bank.


I have found newspaper archives as great sources of local history. Even copies of my blog with Telegram.com can be  found in West Brookfield.The North Brookfield history room at the Haston Library is a trove of the past. Enthused history buffs like Mike and Glory and others might visits. I would volunteer a class or two.


Read on my friends....

Rembrandt -  Aristotle Contemplating The Bust of Homer

Edison't Umbrella Signature

Saint Louis

Civilian Conservation Camp Badge  FDR

West Brookfield at School

An Amusing Book

Ten Dollar US Gold Piece

David McCullough  Historian and Narrator

Rolls Royce Spirit of Ecstasy