Past and Present

Past and Present

The Historic Lynnfield, Inc. wants to make history fun again

Karen Nascembeni’s face lit up with nostalgia as she looked at the pictures of her house, which was built in 1849 for railroad workers during the Civil War. Back then, it sat on Railroad Avenue and was inhabited by Gen. Benjamin Butler, who went on to become the governor of Massachusetts. In 1960, the house […]

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Past and Present

High character at its finest

Chris Ford was a lot of things. A husband, father, grandfather, member of the Boston Celtics – you name it. And through all of his life experiences, there seemed to be one constant – in the game of life, there weren’t many characters better than Ford. Ford died in a Philadelphia hospital on Jan. 17 […]

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Past and Present

History on four tires

Capt. Kevin Mutti of the Lynnfield Fire Department has worked on a multitude of different vehicles in his lifetime. Before becoming a firefighter, he had worked on dirt bikes, muscle cars, motorcycles, you name it. However, when he became the mechanic for Lynnfield Fire, becoming the caretaker of a 1914 Ford Model T fire truck […]

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