Community Corner
Seventh Week - Wednesday'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 1897 Wa Lee, who owned the laundry in the basement of Frost’s Block on North Street (now Larkin’s Package Store building) was pronounced insane by Dr. C.B. Drew at the Medfield Asylum, after he fired a bullet from a 44-caliber revolver and narrowly missed his landlord, Clinton Frost. Lee was sentenced to three months at the house of corrections. Jan Kee succeeded Lee in the laundry business. When Lee was released from jail, Jan Kee was driven out of town by Lee, who took over the business again. Townspeople, however, boycotted Lee’s return to the laundry."
