Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8.

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[p. 106] the Historical Rooms and the Public Library the permanent historical collections were augmented by valuable loans for the occasion. At the Royall House, articles of furniture, china and relics of colonial days were arranged in such a way that they seemed the ordinary furnishings of a pre-revolutionary mansion. At the Historical Rooms the exhibit was more local, and ancient silver, family relics, and portraits of men of the past generation were of great interest to those whose youth was spent in our old town. At the Library, books and pictures, by Medford residents, and portraits were shown.

The Medford Mercury published a souvenir called ‘Medford, Past and Present,’ to which many students of local history contributed.

On Sunday, June 18, the celebration closed with special exercises at all the churches, and two grand services of song, one at the Mystic Church, and the other at the Opera House.

The week was one of good fellowship and happy reunions of families and friends long parted. The citizens co-operated in making the city beautiful with harmonious decorations; many strangers, as well as former residents, were in the city, and through the whole gala time not an arrest was made, no disturbance was reported, nor accident happened to mar the pleasure of the occasion. Public buildings were closed for business, but hospitably open to all visitors. It was distinctively a Medford jubilee. The orator, the poet, the vocalists, the various speakers, even the inanimate objects in the loan exhibitions were selected because they had been or were connected with the life of the town. No one who attended any of the public exercises or assisted in family reunions failed to realize the tie of brotherhood which binds us all together, or to thank God for the fathers and mothers who seemed to speak to us, bidding us to guard sacredly the honor of our old town as they had cherished it in the years gone by.