Medfield Historical Society Presents: Growing Up in Medfield

The Medfield Historical Society will present its fourth annual “Growing up in Medfield” program tonight at 7 p.m. at the at 26 North St.  

This presentation will feature a panel of residents: Blanchard Warren, Ellis and Phyllis Allen, Peter Vasaturo, Charlotte Reineman, Edie O’Tool, and Joy Iafolla. They will reminisce and share stories about lifein 1940 Medfield.  

In the past decade, programs on the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s have been held before standing-room-only crowds and have been filled with humor and local lore not always found in the history books. This event promises to bring more undocumented history.

Residents who attended the old , the “laundry,” and the new Hannah Pfaff High School; may surprise the audience when they reveal the location of these schools, different from what we think of today when these buildings are mentioned.

Certainly, the war years of World War II had a great impact on Medfield as well Medfield’s largest employers: the hat factory and the . The audience will re-live life in an anxious decade as the panel explores its small hometown, where many still live today; the stores, the people who ran it, Halloween mischief and more.

A special “Medfield in the 1940’s” photo display will be available for viewing starting at 7 p.m.  The program itself will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the lower level of the First Parish Church on North Street. As with most meetings of the Society, The public is welcome with no admission fee charged.  Refreshments will be served following the program.