The latest release from the Fall River Historical Society Press, Main Street in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties and A Businessman’s Reminiscences of Fifty Years by Thomas Richmond Burrell (1861-1953), will be released for sale on Thursday, May 9, 2019.
Based on two papers delivered to the members of the FRHS in 1933 and 1936, the anecdotal musings Burrell recorded in Main Street and Reminiscences – witty and sometimes poignant – brilliantly document the stories of “those persons who carried on business on Main Street and the central section of the city” of Fall River, and tell “of men … with whom [the author] came into contact at the beginning” of his lengthy business career, one that spanned a remarkable seventy-five years.
The 130-page paper-bound volume contains 83 illustrations and is fully indexed; the price is $16.95.
This book is a must-have for anyone interested in Fall River history.
Fascinating!
Storefront of Elijah Fuller & Son, Grocers, 24 North Main Street, 1881. “Sugar was either white or brown, and … kept in barrels provided with a scoop to put it into the scales … everything from cod fish to sugar was weighed on the same scales … and I never remember seeing one wiped or washed.”
