Found and entered by Sharon A Roth, librarian, July 2024
Contained in files of the Society (currently located on the 2nd floor kitchen area)
Note: The date listed is that noted on the talk
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1) : -- “Theodore Dehone Judha, Rail Engineer” Talk by E.L. DeRose (donor) Oct 16, 1984
2) : -- “ Pre-Civil War Anecdote” Miss Sophia Woodman June 17, 1953
Re: memories of Mr. Marsh
3) : -- “Cross Roads” Author Unknown Date unknown
Re: Note on last page: retyped from original – “Sections deleted in Historical
Commission & technical descriptions of East Main St Houses (see original) by
Alice Crawford, curator”
4) : Read it -- “In the Beginning – Deerfield Dedham and the Poucumtuck Grant”
Mildred F. Tumay, Visiting Teacher (2 copies) Date unknown
5) : -- “Great Town – Greenfield -: The Insect league, The Bugs and the Cooties: Fight it Out”
David J. Pierson
Re: town ballfields Nov 1989
6) : -- ”The Civil War as seen by Modern Historians
Hester C. McKeage Date unknown
7) : -- ”Article Written by C. Mason Moody, Class of 1858 for the Alpha, GHS Magazine
Author Unknown Re: High School May 1903
8) : -- ”The Bernardston Road in the Early 1900s”
Frank Henry Reed 1949
9) : -- ”A Medical History of the County of Franklin in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts” (2 copies)
Stephen W Williams MD MMSS June 9, 2016
10) : -- ”The Social and Architectural History of Highland Avenue, Greenfield MA
Businessmen, Neighbors, and Summer Residents 1886-1906
Katherin Rieder (2 copies) Aug 6, 1999
(Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program)
11) : -- ”The Border Forts”
Author unknown RE: Local forts (2 copies) May 31, 1953
12) : -- ”As It was in the Beginning” (2 copies) April 1953 Frank H. Reed
13) : -- ”The Declaration of Independence of Colrain” April 27.no year
Author unknown (3 copies)
14) : -- ”The Sacking of Deerfield” April 29, no yr
Based on Material found in the Boy Captive (2 copies)
Myrabel Gould Fiske
15) : -- ”Shay’s Rebellion” May 4, no yr
Mrs. Roy D. Harris (Evelyn N) (2 copies)
WHAI
16) : -- ”The Battle of Turners Falls May 18, 1953
Helen Fritz
17) : -- ”Some Greenfield Authors” (2 copies) Apr 24, 1949
Lucia Russell Condensed
18) : -- ”Cheapside of the Old Time” 5/2, 1910
Abridged from a paper ready by Albert L. Wing at a
meeting of the GHS 12/2/1910
19) : -- ”The Old Tavern Farm” June 4, 1953
Helen Garrett
20) : -- ”Adapted from a paper read by Mary P. Wells Smith at the Golden Anniversary of
her parents” Nov 1, 1887
Bertha Christiansen
21) : -- ”A Remembrance” 1961
Albert M. Thompson
Re: memoir at 94 years old
22) : Read it -- Early Greenfield Homes” Dec 6, 1948
Bertha Christiansen
Adapted from a paper written by Lucy Cutler Kellogg
23) : -- ”Radio Interview” Jan 11, 1954
John Friend (unsure of spelling)
24) : -- ”Historical Tour of East Main St” (2 copies) 1961
Heritage Hike for Franklin Co Girl Scout Council
Hazel G. Pray
25) : -- ”Early American Glass” Date unknown
Clara Scott, Factory Hollow
Handwritten
26) : -- ”Newspapers -Up to the Civil War” March 18, ‘86
Madgel Burke
27) : -- ”Gold in the Connecticut Valley” Date unknown
E.C. Kennedy
28) : -- ”Paper describing life in Greenfield latter part of the 19th century” Date unknown
John E. Russell
29) : -- ”Massachusetts Beautiful” Date unknown
Author unknown
30) : -- ”The Underground Railway and its possible relation to Theodore
Wells Tavern Stand” June 1, 1953
Mrs. Earl Holtby
31) : -- ”The Older Tavern Farm: Upper Greenfield Meadows” Apr 27, 1948
Helen Garrett
32) : -- ”A Pre-Civil War Anecdote June 17, 1953
Miss Sophia Woodman
Re: about Marsh and his daughter
33) : -- ”Uncle David’s Bell” Date unknown
Author Unknown
34) : -- ”Rope Drive and Dam are History” Date unknown
Joseph A Parzych
35) : -- ”Snapshot history of GMTA and Predecessors” Date unknown
Author unknown
36) : -- ”The Rural Trolley Through Deerfield MA and its Impact 1901-1924” 1971
David j. Smoller
37) : -- ”Shay’s Rebellion” May 4 no yr
Mrs. Ray Barris (Evelyn N.)
38) : -- In the Beginning – Deerfield, Dedham & the Pocumtuck Grant” Date unknown
This may be a second copy of another with different author
Mildred F. Tumay
39) : -- ”GHS – story typed about it’s history” Date unknown
Author unknown – incomplete
40) : -- ”Incomplete pages about Shays Rebellion and General Lincoln in Town” Date unknown
Author unknown
41) : -- ”Tour Guide Protocol” Date unknown
Author unknown
42) : -- ”Address of Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge: Delivery on the 150th of the
Incorporation of the town.” Date unknown
Author unknown
(2 copies)
1 copy: “From Mrs. R. A. Peabody Nov 1922”
43) : -- ”Asher Benjamin” Apr 27, 1946
Edward Caswell Perry
44) : -- ”Cheapside of the Olden Time” Dec 2, 1910
Albert L. Week
45) : -- ”Little Known Facts of History of Greenfield” - excerpts May 5, 1947
Author Unknown
46) : -- Cheapside Greenfield
Author unknown – exerpt from another? Copy? Date Unknown
47) : -- Traveling In Ye Olden Time May 2
Adapted from a paper by MP Wells Smith, 12/9/1912
48) : Read it -- The Hoosac Tunnel June 17, 1953
Jean L. Parker