by Bruce Henderson | May 13, 2022 | Newton Authors |
After 33 years as president of the Carroll Center for the Blind, Newton resident and author Rachel Ethier Rosenbaum spent eight years writing an engaging biography of her charismatic and talented predecessor, Father Thomas J. Carroll. He was a founder of the Catholic...
by Bruce Henderson | Apr 1, 2022 | History |
After a required 72-year waiting period, the 1950 Federal Census records are now available to the public online, starting today. You can find the records for Newton here. There’s a census record book for each Enumeration District in the city, and Newton has...
by Bruce Henderson | Dec 27, 2021 | Education, Memoir, Racism |
The last thing I thought I’d be posting about this Christmas week would be about Newton-focused discussion of Critical Race Theory, but I was a bit frustrated by how a previous post on the subject abruptly ended with a lot of items hanging and unresolved. ...