One member had worked with Ambassador Ryan, perhaps our museum’s most generous benefactor, in the Foreign Service, another member had worked with Mary Lou Cutter, former Historical Museum and Farm Museum Curator, as a fellow teacher. I wonder what artifacts each collection holds from the early days (1660s-1670s) that we might be able to share with each other? I look forward to visiting the Hadley Historical Collection sometime soon!
Great visit at the Historical Museum tonight from the Hadley Historical Society (the other “HHS”) for their June program. What a nice group of people, and boy were they troopers to stay an hour in our sauna-like 2nd floor museum which had reached 90 degrees by 8 pm! It was wonderful to be able to exchange similar stories, not only about our collections but also about our shared history. The settlers of Hatfield were Hadley settlers until 1670 when they petitioned the court to grant them a new town across the river. The Hatfield ferry across the Connecticut River on North Main St., as well as the short-lived bridge off the south end of town in the early 1800s was their ferry and their bridge too.
One member had worked with Ambassador Ryan, perhaps our museum’s most generous benefactor, in the Foreign Service, another member had worked with Mary Lou Cutter, former Historical Museum and Farm Museum Curator, as a fellow teacher. I wonder what artifacts each collection holds from the early days (1660s-1670s) that we might be able to share with each other? I look forward to visiting the Hadley Historical Collection sometime soon! |
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