As residents celebrated Thanksgiving this year, the Hopkinton Public Library had on display copies of 18th century documents relating to the Native American settlement on the land that became Hopkinton. In 1669, Reverend John Eliot, a Puritan missionary to local...
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Marathon Quilters return for HCA show
In 1996, Cyndy Rymer and Joanne Brine created the Marathon Quilters Guild, a small group of members from varying communities who unify through their admiration for quilting and fiber arts. Now, 25 years later, the program still is going strong and is preparing to host...
‘Peace Dreamer’ book created during time of little hope
Cheryl Melody Baskin (who goes by Melody) knew she was unlike most others from a very young age. Her “shy nature and hopeful approach to everyday life” was something rather different from the rest of her peers. Baskin fostered these traits into her new book, “Peace...
Wood if he could: Local furniture builder takes on challenging projects
John Foster had been taking things apart and putting them back together ever since he was a little boy, but it wasn’t until he stepped inside a woodworking shop at Boston University’s Program in Artisanry that he...
Town Common marchers call out anti-Asian bigotry
A crowd of about 200 people turned out at the Town Common on Saturday afternoon for a...
Resident chronicles historic Hopkinton event in new book
One day in 1919, Hopkinton High School teacher Ellen Duffey timidly waved her handkerchief at her boyfriend, who watched her from the town center. Little did she know, that gesture would turn out to become a key factor in her termination and the beginning of a protest...