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Oral History -- Brookfield Poor Farm |
| In 1939, as part of a Works Progress Administration project, an interview was conducted with a woman named Mary Anne Meehan in Brookfield MA. That interview has been posted on-line in the American Memory collection. To locate the interview -- which is titled "Irish Cook -- Brookfield", remember to use "Irish Cook" as the exact search phrase and click here to get instructions . |
| In the interview, Mary Anne mentions her memory of the poor farm in Brookfield and how it had been abandoned for a couple of years when a passerby discovered that it was gone -- it had burned to the ground! |
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