Letter from Call Field
Recently, a fellow researcher discovered and alerted me to a letter in our archives from Berkeley Taylor to his friend, James D. Booth of...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Jul 193 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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Lenny Shaker
Jun 29, 20233 min read
Gettysburg 1913: A 50th Anniversary Reunion
One hundred and sixty years ago, Union and Confederate armies fought The Battle of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. The Union victory is...
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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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Melissa M. Cybulski
Feb 9, 20233 min read
Emma's Essay: A Soldier Boy in the Army
In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, we thought we would look at an item in our collection from the era of his presidency: a child’s...
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Beth Hoff
Jan 12, 20235 min read
Berkeley Taylor and the Barn Fire
On June 9, 1933, brothers Joseph C. and Eugene L. Marcure of Springfield confessed to burning a 300-foot barn in the Longmeadow meadows...
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Lenny Shaker
Dec 15, 20222 min read
Cannon on the Green 1926-1942
Image from Annie Emerson Papers, Vol 2 In 1920 it was decided to construct a war memorial to honor the almost 340 Longmeadow veterans who...
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Beth Hoff
Nov 22, 20223 min read
Paying for the Great War
"Over the Top for You" by Sidney H. Riesenberg, 1918. How do you pay for a war? Waging war is expensive and when the United States...
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Lenny Shaker
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Kenneth B. Page's WWI Service Medals
Service Medals awarded to Pvt. Kenneth Page of Longmeadow during WWI Kenneth Bausman Page was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on June...
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Betsy McKee
Nov 21, 20221 min read
A Soldier's Letter Home: Thomas Francis Cordis, 1843-1915
Thomas (Tommy) Francis Cordis was born in Longmeadow in 1843 and enlisted in the 46th Mass. Volunteers in September of 1862, at the age...
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Lenny Shaker
Nov 20, 20223 min read
Longmeadow’s Medal of Honor Recipient: Cpl. Edward G. Wilkin
Col. Wilkin’s Medal of Honor Collection of the Longmeadow Historical Society As we close out a week that began for many with Memorial Day...
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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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Al McKee/ Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 19, 20224 min read
From eBay Back to Longmeadow: An Image of Elias Coomes
Elias Coomes, in Militia Coat Recently Acquired by Longmeadow Historical Society Every once in a while, we add a new item to our...
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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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Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 18, 20224 min read
Longmeadow's Irish
Today's History Note takes a look back at the history of the Irish in Longmeadow in honor of St. Patrick's Day. "Irish emigrants leaving...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 16, 20225 min read
Sentenced to Death for Treason: Alpheus Colton of Longmeadow
Jonathan Hale Daybook: Jan 25, 1787 On January 25, 1787, a Longmeadow merchant, Jonathan Hale, recorded in his daybook a debit to Alpheus...
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Beth Hoff
Nov 13, 20227 min read
John Akley and Sarah Forbus
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze Who were John Akley and Sarah Forbus? They are pauper children from Boston whom Ensign...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 4, 20222 min read
WWII Air Raid Wardens in Longmeadow
Alice Atkinson's resignation letter from her Air Raid Warden position February 1942 The “Longmeadow Civilian Defense Committee”...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 4, 20227 min read
The Elusive Johnny Appleseed... of Longmeadow- Part II
Illustration by George Richards from "Johnny Appleseed and Other Poems" by Vachel Lindsay, NY, 1929 Last week’s History Note article...
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Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 4, 20224 min read
The Elusive Johnny Appleseed... of Longmeadow
Harper's Magazine, 1871 This article is widely believed to be the source of much of the myth of Johnny Appleseed. Is it true? Was he...
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