After Much Opposition July 30 Was Chosen as the Day on Which to Celebrate.
A meeting of all the committees of the business association’s old-home day department was held last evening. The association has sent out 550 invitations for its old-home day, a week from Wednesday, July 30.
The arrangements for the day include a noonday lunch and open house in Village Hall, a drive about town for invited guests, the putting up of memorial tablets at historic spots, a supper at the Universalist church, and historical and other exercises at Village Hall in the evening.
The town is celebrating old-home day In spite of the bitter opposition of a few influential and conservative men. who were determined that nothing should be done. The business association. however, took hold of the work in earnest, and the Inquiries and interest shown have fully demonstrated the practicability of the observance.
Norwood was the birthplace of Curtis Guild Sr. and many other notable people have been born here. Here Rev Edwin Thompson, the noted temperance and antislavery worker, once labored; here Rev Theron Brown, poet, and author, lived for many years. The town has a fine revolutionary and civil war record.
(Originally published in the Norwood Advertiser