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The following newsletters are available online:

September 03, 2023
  • Stow's Hale Family
  • Rediscover Mapledale

April 28, 2022
  • Stow’s Patriotism through the Centuries
    . Part Two

March 7, 2022
  • Stow TV and the SHS wrote and produced a documentary, paying tribute to Stow’s Women of 1920.
    youtu.be/0gfaaz6Ttb4

    Many thanks to Jonathan Daisy, Executive Producer Stow TV, and the narrators,
    Linda Hathaway, Bruce Fletcher, Dorothy Sonnichsen, Ellen Sturgis,
    and Marilyn Zavorski.
February 4, 2022
  • Black History Month: Robert H. Hawkins & the Creation of Mapledale C. C. in 1926
January 20, 2022
  • Viewing Stow through the Annual Town Reports 1846-1930
  • Celebrating Stow’s Women, published by the SHS in April of 2021
  • SHS is seeking individuals to help facilitate planning, programming, and writing.
December 04, 2021
  • 1883: Honoring Stow’s fallen soldiers during the Civil War
  • 1895: seven Stow women registered to vote in the 1895 Massachusetts Referendum to allow women to vote in municipal elections.
  • Stow in the 1950’s
  • 1976: The formation of the Stow Unit of the League of Women Voters
  • Remembering Stow’s Alan Hearsey Ferguson
  • SHS is seeking individuals to help facilitate planning, programming, and writing.
August 30, 2021, Lake Boon Water Carnival
New Books:
  • Celebrating Stow’s Women, published by the SHS
  • A History of Lake Boon, 100th Anniversary of the Lake Boon Association
Donations and research inquiries to the SHS
Stow’s Whitney siblings and their 1920’s bequests to the Town of Stow
April 29, 2021, Celebrating Stow’s Women book signing, May 1st
An 1832 Stow letter written by Stow’s Rufus Hosmer, Esq. to his son, Rufus Hosmer, Jr.
April 11, 2021, Celebrating Stow’s Women, 1920 and the 19th Amendment
Book Signing Saturday May 1, 2021, Pompo Community Center Parking Lot
Seeking volunteers and new SHS Board members
Patriots Day, Monday April 19, 2021
Civil War video by Drew Abrutyn
Boundary markets at Delaney
Wareham-Stow connection
February 28, 2021, Stow Town Hall survey on renovations;
Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge April 21, 2021 (Zoom);
Spindle Hill, Stow's Women and the 19th amendment book
August 28, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Newsletter #7
August 21, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Newsletter #6
August 14, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Newsletter #5
August 07, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Newsletter #4
July 31, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Newsletter #3
July 24, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Newsletter #2
July 17, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Newsletter #1
May 2020, Memorial Day 2020
April 2020, Request for Reflections
March 2020, Women's Suffrage Program postponed
January 2020, Women's Suffrage Program
September 2019, Alexander Hamilton and Stow
March 2019, Preparations for WWII
February 2019, Stow in WWII
October 2018, Historical Clothing
September 2018, Amelia Earhart
July 2018, West School Open House
May 2018, Springfest
March 2018, King Philip's War
February 2018, State House, Book Store
October, 2017, Women's History Through Folk Music
September, 2017, Heroines on the Home Front
June, 2017, Freedom's Way National Heritage Area
May, 2017, Carver Hill Orchard
March, 2017, Barnet, VT and Stow, MA
November, 2016, The First Presidential Election
October, 2016, Stow and World War II
September, 2016, Native American’s Web of Life
May, 2016, Spring Programs
April, 2016, The Randall Documents
March, 2016, The Randall Legacy
January, 2016, Intrigues at the Cemetery
October, 2015, Annie Sullivan Program, Annual Meeting Dinner
May, 2015, Springfest Programs
April, 2015, Bells across the Land, 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War
October, 2014, Hartacks Civil War Music and History, Stow Town Hall, November 15, 2014
October, 2014, Gleasondale Walking Tour part II poster
September, 2014, Stow West School New England Storyteller, October 5, 2014
July, 2014, SHS Email Notice from July 9, 2014
June, 2014, Stow West School Oral History Program, June 29, 2014
March, 2014, Minutemen Potluck Dinner April 4, 2014
October, 2013, Graveyard Graphics Program, Stow Town Hall, October 19, 2013
September, 2013, Mary Rowlandson Program, West School, September, 2013
July, 2013, Stow Skills Program, West School, July 7, 2013
June, 2013, Oral History, West School, June, 2013
May, 2013, Springfest, May, 2013
March, 2013, Changes in the Land, March, 2013
February, 2013, Historical Weather Program, Randall Library, February 7, 2013
December, 2012, Historical Book Suggestions
November, 2012, Meetinghouse Program, Stow Town Hall
October, 2012, Annual Meeting Announcement
September 2012, Mark Twain at West School, Cemetery Tour with Skip Warren
August, 2012, Civil War Sesquicentennial
July, 2012, Native American Culture at West School
June, 2012, Oral History Project
May 28, 2012, Hillside Cemetery Tour
May, 2012, History Bus Tour
April, 2012, History Bus Tour Announcement
March, 2012, Stow -- Historical Society and Historical Commission
February, 2012, War of 1812 Bicentennial
January, 2012, Time Capsule Edition
December, 2011, 2011 Annual Meeting Edition
October 30, 2011, Lower Village Cemetery tour
October 18, 2011, 50th Anniversary
March, 2010, Stow Things Book
March, 2007, Heritage Landscape Art Show
April, 2006, Memories of a Mill
March, 2004, Stow Grange Pie Party
April, 2003, Red Acre Farm Centenary
March, 2002, Town Quilt Dedication
February, 2001, Poster Display, Minute Man Air Field
February, 2000, Images of America Book, Shaker History Program
April, 1998, National Heritage Area, Fogg Museum Randall Collection
February, 1997, Great Events Series
March, 1995, Pot Luck Supper Meeting
February, 1994, Randall Library Centennial
February, 1993, Morse Payne Presentation
February, 1992, Historical Landscape Series -- Minuteman Air Field
November, 1991, Holiday Tea
July, 1991, Pot Luck Picnic
February, 1991, Acquisition Night
December, 1990, Frannie Warren's Book, “Recollections of Stow”
last update 2023 September 03