Lincoln (Mass.)

Minutes of ad hoc committees, minor municipal committees with limited areas of responsibility, and non-municipal organizations in which the Town of Lincoln, Mass., has representation; together with miscellaneous documents of/or relating to the Board of Selectmen, elections, and other topics.

"Come to Bemis Hall on Monday, April 3, at 12:30 to hear Members of First Parish discuss "Seeing the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands for Ourselves." Members of the First Parish group that traveled to "The Wall" on the Arizona Borderlands last November will present and then discuss Janet Boynton's stunning 20-minute video showing photographs and interviews from the participants' experiences with the complex issues of migration and border security."--http://www.lincolntown.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=3412&month=4&year=2017&day=3&calType=0...

Correspondence and other documents related to state aid for highways, contracts, abandonments, and other highway related works; contracts; petitions and correspondence pertaining to gas, electric, telephone utility locations; railroad crossing issues; permits; and miscellaneous items.

"Scenes of Lincoln, Mass. in 1948. Taken by Clement Sawtell with a 16 mm. camera and transfered to video in February 2001 by the Lincoln Historical Society."--Handwritten on container.

Kate Tranquada, from the Lincoln Public Library, gives a presentation on how to utilize Consumer Reports, a free to the user subscription service database from the library.

Maria Madison discusses "The Robbins House and the Heroes and Heroines of Our Region's Little Known African American History." The Lincoln/Concord area's past is filled with extraordinary, though little known, African American people like Ellen Garrison, who took a stand against segregation a century before Rosa Parks, and Caesar Robbins, a previously enslaved Revolutionary War Veteran whose house embodies much about the African American community...

"On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 12:30 hear Kathy Mierzwa discuss "What's so Cool about Iceland?" Why is Iceland such a popular travel destination these days? Do tourists go for the ice, the geothermal pools, the volcanoes or the Northern Lights? Come see some stunning photos from Katherine Mierzwa's recent trip to Southern Iceland."--http://www.lincolntown.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=4040

Research papers and other documentation written or collected by Little relating to Lincoln history, genealogy, and archaeology.

Manuscript entitled The History of Old Brooks Road, with first draft of the same, written by Mack at the request of the Lincoln Conservation Commission, including maps with location of the road. Old Brooks Road, one of the earliest roads in Lincoln, Mass., was laid out in 1729-1730, running between Bedford Road near its present day junction with Route 2 and Route 2 opposite present day Brooks Road; the road was little used after the opening of Bedford...