Community Corner
Fourth Week - Sunday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"In 1936 the German passenger-carrying dirigible Hindenburg flew over Medfield on its way from Boston. When it was sighted over Medfield, the town fire whistles were blown to allow townspeople to witness the passage of the great airliner. All Medfield High School pupils were released from school so they could witness it. The Hindenburg was 804 feet long and designed by the Zeppelin Company. It had a maximum speed of 84 miles per hour. It was filled with highly flammable hydrogen. A year after passing over Medfield, on May 6, 1937, while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, it burst into flames and was completely destroyed. Of the 97 persons on board, 35 were killed. The Hindenburg disaster, which was captured on film, marked the end of the use of rigid airships for commercial air transportation."
