May, 2009

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Maynard Historical Society Podcast #13 – Jerry Fanning

Friday, May 15th, 2009

On October 25, 1995 Jerry Fanning gave a talk on his search for his Irish ancestors to the Maynard Historical Society.   Jerry passed away several months later and his wife, Irene, donated the text of his talk along with a recording Jerry made.

We have digitized his recording, used software to remove a lot of the background noise, and we are now pleased to have Jerry Fanning’s talk in this week’s podcast.

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(about 22 minutes long)

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Help support local history: Vote at Maynard’s Special Town Meeting

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Maynard residents can directly help support the preservation of local history by voting in favor of Article 7 (Community Preservation Funds Appropriation) at the Special Town Meeting on May 19th.

There are 3 historical preservation projects included in this article.  One of the projects is a grant to professionally survey the historical collection of the town and to begin the process of creating a digital catalog of the collection.  The project is a joint effort of the Maynard Historical Society and the Maynard Historical Commission.   Our proposal to the Community Preservation Committee was enthusastically supported and we hope to get the same support from the community on the 19th.

If you are resident of the town, please consider attending Special Town Meeting (and Annual Town Meeting for that matter) and voting in favor of Article 7.

Thank you,

Dave Griffin
President, Maynard Historical Society

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Maynard Seniors take the Picture Puzzle

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

puzzle-14014A number of months ago, for one of our Society programs, I put together the “Maynard Picture Puzzle” program — a visual quiz on how well people observe details around Maynard.   Nearly all of the photographs are from within a half-mile of downtown and, much to my delight, I don’t think there’s a person who has managed to get all of them.

We were invited to give the Picture Puzzle to the senior citizens of Maynard yesterday and, not surprisingly, they did a very respectable job of figuring out the puzzle.  I think there was only one photo that stumped everyone!  (And, boy, were they surprised when they saw where it came from.)

The puzzles are photographs of familiar landmarks in Maynard, but only a portion of them.  From the detail you have to use the clues and your memory of Maynard to solve each puzzle.

I didn’t realize how many people were going to be at the gathering and didn’t have enough worksheets for everyone, but I hope those who joined us at the Elks yesterday enjoyed solving the puzzles as much as I did presenting them.

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