Anne Martin
Wicked Local
Hingham’s Yesterdays, 75 years ago from the files of the Hingham Journal for the first week in March as compiled by Anne Martin.
1945
One of the most successful and pleasurable Ladies’ nights held by the Hingham Rotary Club took place last Thursday evening at the Central Fire Station, upon the invitation of Chief Albert Kimball of the Fire Department. Over 80 attended the affair, including District Governor Howard B. Peck of Fall River, and Mrs. Peck. A lobster dinner, augmented with cold cuts and chicken salads, was furnished by Dora Ferguson, caterers. Music was furnished by Mrs. Vivian Mulvey, accordionist, and Mrs. Richard Woorf, pianist, Marshfield, Mass. The entertainment was furnished by Sherman Woodfall of Hingham, who showed the colored sound pictures of his 14,000-mile trip in the small yacht “Violta” made four years ago. He and his brother Russell, who was killed in Panama two years ago, built the boat in the back yard of their home i
Standing at 1320 Park St., the stately Federal-style columns of the Grider House, hidden mostly from view by thick foliage, are home to a largely forgotten history.
The home, named for Union Army Col. John Hobson Grider â no known relation to the Hobson House â is said to have been where the provisional government of the Confederacy met when it briefly occupied and named Bowling Green as its state capital during the Civil War.
According to its current residents and homeowners, Dr. Gordon Newell and Regina Newell, the effective Confederate state Capitol building hosted notable names like John C. Breckinridge â the native Kentuckian and Confederate general who was once the 14th vice president, serving under the embattled one-term President James Buchanan and the predecessor of President Abraham Lincoln.