Events Listing

Programs held at
First Parish Church
26 North Street
(unless otherwise noted)

Monday, March 1, 2010

Portrait of a Puritan Town: Everyday Life and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Medfield

What was day-to-day life like in Medfield 300 years ago? What sort of a worldview did our forebears have, and how their church and their religion help shape it?

Prof. Douglas Winiarski came up with some surprising answers as he scoured through the extraordinarily comprehensive and fascinating records of Medfield's First Congregational (now First Parish Unitarian Universalist) Church. These records go beyond the weekly sermons and other documents left by the Rev. Joseph Baxter, who served 1697-1745. They include detailed spiritual autobiographies men and women composed when they applied for membership in the church, plus diaries, petitionary prayers, and other writings. It gives us a view of their daily Medfield life that we never had before.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Medfield housing from 1651 to present.

Richard DeSorgher plans a video presentation at the high school auditorium, surveying Medfield's houses and neighborhoods through the years.