Community Corner
Thirteenth Week - Saturday'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 the 1950s and early 1960s Medfield’s election support for Republican candidates was so strong that the Republican State Committee sponsored the “Republican Election Parade” through town just before Election Day. The Republican state and national candidates would ride down Main Street and then up North Street to the Hunt Club Grounds in parade fashion with bands playing, floats, etc. and crowds gathered along the streets cheering them on. Then the Republican candidates would have tents set up on the Hunt Club Grounds where they would meet voters, food would be sold, speeches made and most of the town would turn out. In the 1956 Presidential Election, for example, the Republican ticket of Eisenhower and Nixon out polled the Democrat Stevenson and Kefauver ticket 1,504 to 432. Today, as of the last 2018 election, Medfield had 1,803 Democrats, 1,327 Republicans, 5,744 Unenrolled and 92 other party affiliates. "
