This month’s Historical Commission agenda is available here – the public meeting will be Monday, May 13 at 7 PM in City Hall. As ever, please join us!

And when you’re honoring the matriarchs in your life this weekend, think of Julia Ward Howe –  a Boston mama and an abolitionist colleague of Medford’s Lydia Maria Child. Click here to read her visionary Mother’s Day Proclamation, written in 1870.