Norfolk Hunt on Thanksgiving Morning

This is the fourth installment of an occasional series called "Medfield State Hospital: Did You Know?" written by the Medfield State Hospital Visioning Committee.

Did you know that the Norfolk Hunt Club has been hunting on the Medfield State Hospital property since 1900? 

It's true. 

In the 1950s, the Hunt would notify the hospital so that they could open the gates allowing the Hunt through.  Often the patients would watch horses, riders and hounds as they galloped past the facility in the adjacent fields, often en route to the Leverett Saltonstall property in Dover. 

This year, as in more than 100 years before, the public is welcome to watch approximately 75 to 90 horses and riders, accompanied by more than 30 hounds, as they arrive at Sledding Hill around 9:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning. 

The hunt will start leave from The hunt will start at the Steeplechase course on North Street at 9 a.m.  

For more information on the Medfield State Hospital, visit www.mshvision.net or www.facebook.com/MSHVision.