Eddie Ames at Pilgrim Memorial School: Children leaving the outlying village primary schools would enter Pilgrim Memorial in center Wareham Mass. It was destroyed by fire in the 1960s. On the site now stands the new Wareham Free Library.
People in photo include: Paul Govoni, Joseph Gallerani, Alden Besse, Freeman Keyes, Russell Goodale, Dwight Ladd, Howard Smith, Georgia Decas, Katherine Schroeder, Dorothy Filkins, Gerenia Taber, Florence Ravenscroft, Helen Kiernan, Lillian Mattson, Rita Conway, Eddie Cattabriga, George Rounsville, Malcomb Shurtleff, James Borsari, Kalco Mattson, ? Cobb, and Mary Baccherri
Can any one tell me the city, state of this school? I know that my paternal side of family came from Idaho,but don't know where else. Email me at [contact link]. Thank you!
Structures that memorialize those who have passed, as well as our shared history
A monument is erected to commemorate a person or an important event. Monuments may remind us of an ancient civilization, a battle, the war dead, or even a way of life. Contained in the following page...
Friendships are the most important relationships. These snapshots of buddies and pals will likely remind you of your lifelong friends.
I get by with a little help from my friends. - The Beatles, 1967
Aristotle described a true friend as a “single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Time and/or distance don't matter in a real friendshi...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
As the genealogy & local history librarian at Wareham (Mass)Free Library, I am always interested in finding family histories and photos from our area. Some early family names here are: Bates, Besse, Bourne, Burgess, Bumpus, Maxim, Fearing, Swift, Gibbs, and Savery.
The early 20th Century brought to our town, many ethnic groups seeking work in the cranberry industry. We are proud to share our history with families of Finnish, Cape Verdean and Italian descent.
We must all remember that photographs are more than just faces. They were taken to capture a moment in history.
I am researching the surnames of Keyes, Norris, Jarrell, and Kiepke on my side. On my husband's side, I am researching the surnames of Dias, Robledo, Wariner, Roberts, and Sousa.