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WA Staff to 2020! 5-28
Click on link below Check out the WA Graduation from Staff to all Seniors. Read more »
Featured Artifact of the Week
Prescott House Painting A 1947 depiction of the Prescott house still standing at 181A Main St, the intersection of Chamberlain Rd (Chamberlain’s Corner). The house was originally built in 1752 … Read more »
Birds Eye View from the Westford Museums’s Cupola
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Taps Across America ~ Memorial Day 2020
Master Fifer, Joseph L. Greene at the Westford Museum performing Taps Live (3 pm May 25, 2020) Taps Across America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1E0tGGQnjg&t=3s Joe is a fifer with Middlesex County Volunteers, a … Read more »
WESTFORD * MEMORIAL DAY * 2020 A SPECIAL TV PROGRAM
With traditional events cancelled due to the pandemic, Westford Veterans Services and Westford CAT have created a special TV program to honor our veterans. Please tune in to Westford CAT … Read more »
Slingshot Night Light Parade ~ Westford Common
Friday May 22 7:15 – 9:00 p.m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOkmRrWDzU Links to the route map are at the bottom of this post (split into 2 maps). Segment 1: Tyngsboro Rd, Winding Way, … Read more »
Stay Well Anthem by the Covid-fighting Cowgirls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukcx9PdCvk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3PDZbPEdYlTqg8fjVsqu3yq8gKC42OVS1e7SbQz_qfAWIn_1yD_MIqeboRead more »
PANDEMIC HAIKU
(3 LINES: 5 SYLLABLES, 7 SYLLABLES, 5 SYLLABLES – 17 SYLLABLES IN ALL) Pandemic strangeness Many no-mask wearing fools What does science say? We must change our ways It is … Read more »
Our 12th Great Grandfather, Rev. Willard Hall.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was supposed to be traveling to New England for a month with my cousin, Mary Richardson Zern, to research our ancestors. Part of that trip … Read more »
Featured Artifact of the Week
Marie Aurea Marcotte’s Chemistry Folder The 1952 chemistry folder of Marie Aurea (Marcotte) Rondeau (1934-2015), while she attended Westford Academy. She went by Aurea Marcotte at the time. Her chemistry … Read more »
Featured Artifact of the Week
Photo of 29 Main St. 1929 Black and white photo of 19 Main St, which was built in 1873. It was the home of Dr. Orion Vassar Wells (1880-1918) and … Read more »
Westford Schools 1780’s to present
Five school districts were established in 1787 with schoolhouses in each district. New districts were added in 1806, 1822, and 1826. Westford Academy was incorporated in 1792, and a two-story … Read more »