The Northborough Historical Society will hold its first monthly meeting of the season on Friday, September 21, 2012. The evening will begin with a Pot Luck Supper at 6:30. Members and the public are invited to bring their favorite dish and gather for an old-fashioned supper. The society’s meeting will begin following the supper at 7:30 pm, followed by the evening’s program, “What Did Northborough Look Like Fifty to Sixty Years Ago?” presented by Northborough Historical Society Historian Roberta Ellis.
The program presenter, Robert Ellis, has been the Society’s historian for more than fifteen years and has written, Northborough in the Civil War (2007), as well as historical articles for the Hourglass, the Society’s newsletter. Ellis, who taught English at Boston College, Broome Community College, and Worcester State College, has also written booklets on "Northborough Notables," "Alice Kimball's Northborough,” Thomas Blair (the camera manufacturer), and the Northborough Lyceum. He was a contributing writer on To Celebrate Our Town: The First One Hundred Years of the Northborough Historical Society (2005) and Images of America: Northborough (2000).
