Community Corner
Thirty Ninth 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 1917 John Austin Sands Monks was brought to Medfield for burial from Chicago where he died of diabetes at the age of 67. Monks, the noted painter, who specialized in painting sheep, had built and owned the largest block in Medfield. It still bears his name today, “Monks’ Block,” located on the northwest corner of Main and North Streets. Monks also designed the Medfield Town Seal and did all the etchings in William Tilden’s History of Medfield 1651-1886."
