If nothing else, compliance with Center for Disease Control and Commonwealth of Massachusetts recommended protocols pertaining to the coronavirus pandemic has allowed for long postponed archival...
The FRHS archival collections contain thousands of bound volumes and several hundred thousand manuscripts, either individual examples or fonds, all pertaining to various aspects of Fall River...
Hard to believe that it is already March and that yours truly has not posted since December … time does fly, as they say. But there is reason for my seeming negligence. The FRHS is currently closed...
This circa 1910 photograph from the FRHS collection is captioned: “Troy Mill at end of Pocasset Street.” The ivy-clad granite mill, and wild vines meandering over retaining walls belie the fact;...
On the subject of Fall River high school yearbooks – specifically, acquiring them for the FRHS collection – I recently wrote: “Sometimes, one simply need ask.” Very true … and then some....
The FRHS has maintained a longstanding relationship with the Adams House—a.k.a. Home for Aged People—founded in Fall River in 1891 to provide exemplary care in a lovely, private home-like...
I freely admit that I am not social media savvy—I know the basics—sort of—and that is well enough for me. But I have become a firm believer—a convert, I suppose—of the benefits of social...
The box—not very large, but large enough—began its journey to the FRHS dispatched from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada—though in point of fact, the contents left Fall River decades ago and were, in...
Sometimes, one simply need ask. In a recent post on the subject of yearbooks in the FRHS library, I mentioned that whereas the run of volumes from B.M.C. Durfee High School is nearly complete –...
In our ongoing work relocating archival materials into the recently completed west room in the Charlton Library of Fall River History, the FRHS staff and volunteers are handling large quantities of...
