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Forty Fourth Week, Thursday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"On March 15, 1987 the town mourned the death of Blanche Marcionette Kingsbury. Both the Marcionette and Kingsbury families had great influence in town affairs for many decades. In 1957 Ellia Marcionette gave land to the town for the building of the high school (now Blake Middle School) with the stipulations that the school be named the Amos Clark Kingsbury High School in memory of Amos Clark Kingsbury, WWI Veteran, artist and town tax collector. Blanche Kingsbury was a curator of the Medfield Historical Society as well as an educator and served on the School Planning and Building Committee. During the year, she was posthumously recognized by the Historical Commission who wished to honor her for preserving and maintaining the Kingsbury Homestead on Spring Street."