by info@bedfordmahistory.org | Jul 25, 2019 | Businesses, People
Thanks to the Jensen family for donating their father’s Bedford Farms milkman uniform. William “Bill” Jensen was a milkman from 1958-1966 and the family donated 2 uniforms in pristine condition. The uniform included a black and white striped jacket with dark maroon...
by info@bedfordmahistory.org | Apr 15, 2019 | Holidays, People
Members of the Bedford Minutemen march in the Concord Patriots’ Day Parade on April 18, 1994. The Bedford flag is the oldest existing flag in North America and dates from the early 1700s. The flag was present during the battle at the Old North Bridge in 1775 and a...
by info@bedfordmahistory.org | Mar 12, 2019 | People, Veterans
“J.H. Brown Had Icy Bath While Cutting Ice” Ice tongs from the Bedford Historical Society collection. From the Concord Enterprise newspaper, March 12, 1913 “J. H. Brown, Springs Rd, while cutting ice on his pond one day last week, had a narrow escape from drowning. He...
by info@bedfordmahistory.org | Jan 18, 2018 | People, Society News
On January 16, 2018 Jan van Steenwijk presented his first copy of “Ordinary People – Extraordinary Stories,” a catalog of portraits and hand-written life stories of Bedford residents, to Richard Callaghan, Director, Bedford Free Public Library and Don Corey,...
by info@bedfordmahistory.org | Oct 3, 2017 | People, Society News, Uncategorized
As part of our continuing mission to promote the study of history, again this year we have opened our Historical Society’s program year by honoring Bedford High School’s National History Day prize winners. This year’s winning group produced a...
by info@bedfordmahistory.org | Feb 14, 2017 | People, Town Affairs
[In indexing the Charles Jenks Scrapbooks for the Society, Sharon McDonald found a delightful set of newspaper articles from the November, 1916 Bedford Enterprise. She summarizes them for us here:] It was election time in 1916, and the presidential race between...
