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Grassy Gutter
Our town of Longmeadow is filled with street names that reflect its history such as Bliss Road, Williams Street, King Philip Drive, and...
Lenny Shaker
Jan 113 min read
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Longmeadow High School Reunion Group 1957-1960
Happy Graduation Season! Last week, on the first Thursday in June, I had the opportunity to sit down with a very special group of...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Jun 14, 20247 min read
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Old Town Hall
Across Longmeadow Street from Alex’s Bagels sits an unimposing small brick building – 417 Longmeadow Street. Originally a one-room...
Beth Hoff
Jan 24, 20243 min read
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Blueberry Hill School
Longmeadow Annual Town Report, 1960 Another week, another school visit! This week, Blueberry Hill School’s 3rd graders had a visit from...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Jun 8, 20233 min read
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Wolf Swamp Road and School
Wolf Swamp Road School c. 1956 Longmeadow Historical Society Archives Who among us has not wondered about the name “Wolf Swamp?” In...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Jun 1, 20232 min read
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Skating, Sleighing and Sliding
Barney & Berry Ice Skates Longmeadow Historical Society Collection Next week, local historian and friend of the Longmeadow Historical...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Mar 2, 20232 min read
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Emma's Essay: A Soldier Boy in the Army
In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, we thought we would look at an item in our collection from the era of his presidency: a child’s...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Feb 9, 20233 min read
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Sarah A. Coomes Colton's Paintings
Two charming folk art paintings in the collection of the Longmeadow Historical Society bear the hallmarks of the kind of work educated...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Dec 21, 20223 min read
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"Be a good boy and learn..."
Samuel C. Booth's Penmanship Book, 1820 From the Collection of the Longmeadow Historical Society Penmanship copybooks like this one used...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Dec 8, 20222 min read
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District School Registers 1850-1851
Tucked away in a folder in the archives at the Storrs House Museum are more than a dozen attendance registers for the eight District...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 13, 20223 min read
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A Letter from Mary Lyon....
South Hadley, Aug 26.1847 My dear Miss Bliss, Won’t you be willing to go to Virginia to teach? It’s a place where Miss Moore taught this...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 13, 20223 min read
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Norway Street School
Cover of Norway Street School Memory Book In honor of Longmeadow’s students returning to school this week, we thought we’d invite you to...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 12, 20221 min read
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Miss Storrs, Professor Storrs and the American School for the Deaf
From the 1840's to the 1880's the connection between the American School for the Deaf in Hartford and the Storrs family of Longmeadow was...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 11, 20223 min read
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Student Copy Books: The Good Old (Math) Days
This week, as many families with school-aged children are wrapping up another busy week, let us pause and recognize the struggles...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Nov 11, 20222 min read
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Early Center School Kindergarten
Center School Kindergarten (undated) One look at this busy classroom scene evokes memories of past Decembers when teachers and students...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Oct 27, 20222 min read
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Thanks and Giving: Emeline Colton's Friendship Journal
On this day of Thanks and Giving, we wanted to reach out to our friends near and far and share a recent and wonderful addition to the...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Oct 27, 20222 min read
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Longmeadow During the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Area schools, including Longmeadow, closed their doors on September 27th, 1918 in an effort to stop the spread of the deadly illness. ...
Melissa M. Cybulski
Oct 24, 20221 min read
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Longmeadow Family and Day School for Girls
Have you ever wanted to have automatic admission to an excellent college? If so, then you might have enrolled at the Longmeadow Family...
Beth Hoff
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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Longmeadow Country Day School for Younger Boys
I. Mansur Beard, a Harvard graduate, believed that boys should be taught by men (not women) in classes of 15 students or less in order to...
Beth Hoff
Oct 22, 20222 min read
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