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Twenty-sixth Week, Thursday'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.
"From the mid-1800s through the time of WWII, prejudice against the Irish, Italians and Catholics, in general, was very strong in Medfield. The original owner of Lord’s Department Store, Ray Lord, was a witness to Irish Catholic prejudice, when he was banned from the local weekday night poker playing by the other local business members, upset that he hired a young Irish Catholic veteran just home from WWII to be his store manager. Ray Lord stuck with his young manager and left the poker group. That manager was Bill Kelly, who would go on for the next 67 years to own and run Lords. Lords, site of today’s Brothers Marketplace, closed in 2013."
