Company Announces Store Closings and Job Layoffs
OK, the company is Montgomery Ward and the year is 1985 but otherwise this sounds like something you’d read today Montgomery Ward was closing stores because of a new technology. No, …
Twin Tragedy, CCS Pine Trees
The twin pine trees on the CCS athletic fields were a feeling of pride. Then, in 1973 and 1976 vandals cut down the trees. Saturday evening 17-Nov-1973 the first of …
Yellow Brick Road, still there
The yellow brick road was installed in 1913 and paved over in the 1960s. When Mother Nature rips off some of the outer layer you can still see our history.
Freight Yard Restoration, 2007
(aka Hubbard Hall campus) Restored in 2007 by the Cambridge Partnership … thank you, thank you! As a kid we used to build forts using the bags of grain in …
Shushan Harvest Day, 1982
Held in John Rich’s fields on Dobbin Hill. George Andrew’s famous horses pulled a sidehill plow that was invented in this area. It was on loan from the Shushan Covered …
Post Office, c.2000
Nothing comes easy in Cambridge. In 1996 The USPS judged the current post office was not large enough to handle the volume of mail. In 1998 the USPS solicited proposals …
Katherine Whiteside Brash, 1902-1991
Katherine was born in Beatrice, NE the daughter of Dr George and Marguerite (McKie) Brash. She spent summers in Cambridge visiting relatives. After graduating from Wellsley in 1923, she worked …
1955 CCS Yearbook
Photos of Activities, Faculty, Staff, Seniors, and Sports
Sigurd Rascher, world renowned saxophonist
Sigurd Manfred Rascher, known worldwide for the development of the classical saxophone, was born in Elberfeld, Germany on 15-May-1907 and died in Shushan, NY on 25-Feb-2001. Growing up in Germany, …
Cambridge Diner (Country Gals)
[I’m only covering the early years] On Sunday October 13,2019 the revitalized Cambridge Diner sign was unveiled to a cheering throng of 300. The Country Gals invited the community to …