Follow the links below to read the stories and memories of Blandford residents.

Edna (Wyman) Hart (1903 - 1997)

My Memoirs
Remembrances
Old Fashioned Recipes For Common Ailments

Percy Almon Wyman (1889 - 1993)

A Day In The Life Of A Boy
Percy Wyman's Younger Life As Written Just Before His 80th Birthday
Shoeing Cattle
​The Kaolin Mine In Blandford, Massachusetts
​Recollections of Mrs. Josephine Sheffield Porter
Life On Breezy Hill Farm
North Blandford
On Building A Stone Wall
Going To The Grist Mill When I Was A Boy
​Chestnut Trees and Fence Rails
Evening Start of Life
​Bygone Fourths
My Troubles With Overland 83B of 1916

Wallace R. Heady (1864-1982)

Some Memories Of The Blair Pond District in the Seventies and Beginning of the Eighties

Harold E. Ripley (1928 - 2024)

Blandford Fair Memories
Two Of Us Are Left
Moving Day

Jane Mullens

Joe Mullens

Doris (Wyman) Hayden (1902 - 1996)

I Remember
​Harvesting Ice
The Ashmuns of Blandford
As Ripley Said, "Believe It Or Not"
Hayden Pond
The Reverend Cushing Eells
​Mrs. Josephine Porter
Kaolin Road In Blandford
​Blandford Postmasters
​Sunset Rock: The Origin of a Blandford Place Name
​Local Picture Writings
​How It Was Done In 'Olden Days'
​Weaving
​Diary of Mari C. Gibbs
Obituary For A Law Office
​Outlying Blandford Burial Places
S-h-h-h, Don't Wake Up Elizabeth
​Hastings Family Reminiscences
​Lucelia Cook's Diary
​Early Beginnings, Union Agricultural Society
A Woman Ahead Of Her Time?
​The Blandford Baptist Church

Louise Mason

The Huckleberry Trolley
​Mari Gibbs of Blandford

Esther May (Hart) Ripley (1907-2002)

My Memoirs

Springfield Mass. Daily News

Charles Taggart
Blandford Hunt and Banquet

Blandford Monthly

Harriet Maria Hinsdale
​Local Picture Writings
The Story of the Old Meeting House Marker

Madeline Waite

North Blandford's Older Industries

Harry Waite

The Good Old Days In North Blandford

Irene Merrill Mason

The 1829 Turnpike and Tollhouse

Robert F. Wood

The Reverend Sumner Gilbert Wood

Sumner G. Wood

Fifty Years Ago (written in 1935)
​How Blandford Viewed The Railroad

Elsie Gibbs Hill

Frank Nelson Gibbs

Springfield Republican

The Mountain House
​Blandford Hunt And Banquet
​Dr. Wallace H. Deane

Barbara McCorkindale

An Irreverent Look At Our Forebears
​The Search For Blandford's Lost Gold Mine
The Springfield Ski Club Of Blandford

Leonard

The Blandford Girls

Rev. Frank A. Higgins

Basketry In Blandford

Susan B. Tiffany

Quilting

Clarence Bates

Tanning

Barbara Brainerd

A Town's Special Treasure

Duane Wyman

Blandford Cemeteries - A History Of Time

Betsy (Cross) Brooks

J. J. Cross

Louis Brownell Hastings

Hastings Family Reminiscences

Dietrich Schlobohm

Cobble Mountain - The End Of An Era

Dr. Harold A. Gibbs

A Visit To Aunt Hannah
​The Deacon's Son and the Parson's Daughter

Henry B. Russell

More Blandford Notes

Plumb Brown

Cheese Making

Natalie Birrell

Gerald Wise

Lorinda Loomis Gibbs

The White Church At North Blandford

Gordon C. Rowley

An Account Of The Musical Instruments Used In The First Congregational Church In Blandford

Hannah A. (Fish) Gibbs

Diary of Hannah A. Gibbs

Contact Us

Contact us:
Phone: 413-848-0108
​Email: [email protected]
Mail:  P.O. Box 35, Blandford, MA, 01008
Street:  1 North Street, Blandford, MA 01008
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