Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 6/3/2021 12:08:44 PM
The Greenfield Historical Society is fundraising to write a book focusing on the town’s most famous and infamous residents throughout history, with the working title “Shocking but True: Revealing Stories of Greenfield’s Unknown History”.
“We’ve got all these stories about all these characters in town, some are quite funny, and others are quite mysterious, or quite scandalous,” organizer Amy Lowell said. “But nobody knows about them except for us.”
A new history book highlighting some of Greenfield’s more intriguing characters seemed like a good solution for a number of issues facing the historical society, Lowell said. The town’s last history was published in 1977, she said, and it’s a bit of a dry read. “If you grew up in Greenfield, you might find some of it interesting,” she said, but there was certainly room for more exciting ways to present the bizarre, scandalous, suspenseful, and myster