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Melissa M. Cybulski
Jul 19, 20243 min read
Great Guns!
Fourth of July Fireworks in downtown Springfield are a treasured part of people’s holiday celebrations. But you may be surprised to learn...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Dec 21, 20232 min read
“The Multitude Have Risen:” Longmeadow Learns of the Boston Tea Party
Engraving by E. Newberry, 1789. New York Public Library You’ve probably seen some of the coverage come across your news and social media...
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Beth Hoff
Nov 1, 20234 min read
Chandler Avenue
Across the Longmeadow Green from First Church of Christ and stretching to the west is a small country lane named Chandler Avenue. Flanked...
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Al McKee
Oct 26, 20234 min read
William Holland, Longmeadow's First Stone Carver
When people ask what the oldest gravestone in the Longmeadow Cemetery is, the answer is the stone for Mary Drake Colton. She died in...
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Betsy McKee
Sep 7, 20233 min read
As the Cock Crows: Longmeadow's Rooster
Have you ever wondered about the rooster on the top of First Church’s steeple? Did you think that it was a simple weathervane, helping...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Aug 24, 20234 min read
Fridays with Zoe- Documenting Early Black Lives in Longmeadow (updated, 2023)
Editor's Note: This article first ran in August 2021. Since then our work on this important topic has continued. Zoe Cheek is now...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
May 4, 20232 min read
A Walk Through the Old Emerson Place
Cooley-Emerson House at 476 Longmeadow Street image courtesy raveis.com It’s not every day you get a complete basement-to-attic tour of...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Apr 20, 20233 min read
April 1775: Longmeadow Reports
Battle of Lexington 1775 by Amos Doolittle This week Massachusetts celebrates Patriots’ Day, a holiday commemorating the Battles of...
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Tim Casey
Apr 6, 20234 min read
The Longmeadow Border Jog
If you have ever looked at a map of Massachusetts and Connecticut, for the most part, the border between the two is a straight line. That...
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Betsy McKee
Feb 2, 20234 min read
Hey Phil!
In honor of Groundhog Day, this author thought our readers might like to don their beaver silk top hats like this c. 1890-1905 one in our...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Jan 5, 20236 min read
"Prepare- for follow me you must"
A simple gravestone in Longmeadow Cemetery from 1720, with a classic inscription, warns passersby to consider their own fates. It marks...
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Betsy McKee
Dec 5, 20222 min read
For the Birds!
"With Best Wishes" Postcard from the Longmeadow Historical Society Archives It's For the Birds! Did you know that there used to be a crow...
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Betsy McKee
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Standish, or "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
Have you ever heard of a standish? Besides the Pilgrim story of Miles Standish, I hadn't either. Long before Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
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Betsy McKee
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Fire! Fire!
If you were one of the many people who voted at the Community House this week, then you were visiting the site of a significant mid-19th...
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Tim Casey
Nov 20, 20224 min read
Diggin' in The Meadows
The Silvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge, colloquially known as “The Meadows,” is a stretch of meadows and wetlands that dominate the...
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Betsy McKee
Nov 19, 20222 min read
Memorial Day
This coming Monday, May 30th, is Memorial Day. Although the exact origin of the holiday is unclear, it was widely celebrated beginning...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 19, 20222 min read
Say Their Names
Anyone who knows and loves the soundtrack from the musical Hamilton knows how haunting the final verse of the final song is, “who lives,...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 19, 20223 min read
April 1775: Longmeadow Reports
Battle of Lexington 1775 by Amos Doolittle This week Massachusetts celebrates Patriots’ Day, a holiday commemorating the Battles of...
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Christopher Cummings LHS '22
Nov 17, 20227 min read
Deerfield Sculpture
ETA: This 2022 article by an LHS Class of '22 graduate was the culminating project for an internship he completed as part of his...
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Becky Vitkauskas
Nov 16, 20223 min read
The White Tavern
766 Longmeadow Street- c. 1982 via MACRIS Longmeadow was home to multiple taverns in earlier centuries. One well known tavern in town...
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