Chicopee in the Revolutionary War – September 16

September 9, 2026

The Chicopee Historical Society will present a talk next Wednesday on Chicopee’s experience during the Revolutionary War. The soldiers from Chicopee Street, the settlement of Skipmuck (future Chicopee Falls) and the area of what is now Chicopee Center were all the northernmost part of Springfield. Several men and boys marched to Boston when news of…
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July 4, 2001, The 225th Anniversary of 1776: A New Century and a New Millennium

August 26, 2026

By Jacqueline T. Lynch, Vice President July 4, 2001, the 225th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was, unbeknownst to us at the time, a watershed moment. We were three months before the shock and tragedy of 9/11, when our world would change in ways large and small, and events occurred in the years that…
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July 4, 1976 – The Bicentennial

August 19, 2026

By Jacqueline T. Lynch July 4, 1976, was the largest nationwide celebration of Independence Day. Several countries overseas joined in and wished us well. Anyone living today from their mid-fifties and older will have some memory of the Bicentennial. People who were schoolchildren then will likely have the most profound memories as the Revolution was…
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July 4, 1951 – the 175th Anniversary of 1776

August 12, 2026

By Jacqueline T. Lynch, Vice President July 4, 1951, was the 175th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and found us not only in the throes of the Cold War, but hot one as well. The Korean War began just over a year ago, in the summer of 1950. We still were a nation of…
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July 4, 1926 – The 150th Anniversary of 1776

August 5, 2026

By Jacqueline T. Lynch, Vice President July 4, 1926, was the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Though the second-grade students at Alvord School in the photo above in colonial costume look sedate and dignified in their practice of the minuet, we were in the midst of the Roaring Twenties. There were 48 states…
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