Grass Roots for Heywood Meadow Committee records, 1967-1986 (bulk 1969).

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Grass Roots for Heywood Meadow Committee records, 1967-1986 (bulk 1969).

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Records include: correspondence, with significant sequences of protest letters by town committees and organizations and by individuals to the Middlesex County Commissioners; typescript informational material, including history of Heywood Meadow by Ruth Wheeler (prepared for newspaper publication) and chronological listing of events 1959-1969 impacting on Heywood Meadow; resolutions; minutes; press releases; typescript remarks by Franklin R. Johnson before Middlesex County Commissioners; petition forms; handbills, notices, and posters (typed and hand-lettered); photographs of the meadow. (Cont.) and of protesters before the Middlesex County Commissioners; photocopied clippings.

ca. 175 items ; 52 cm. or smaller.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 7350669

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Middlesex County (Mass.). Commissioners

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Johnson, Franklin Ridgway, -1993

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Concord (Mass.). Natural Resources Commission

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Clarke, James Russell, 1902-1995

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Grass Roots for Heywood Meadow Committee (Concord, Mass.)

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