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- A Winter’s Morning on the Farm 50 Years Ago November 17, 2025
- Thomas Packard School Days September 2, 2025
- Stone Walls In Plainfield July 28, 2025
- THEY CALLED IT PLEASANT STREET July 22, 2025
- Memories of Plainfield from Thomas Packard July 8, 2025
- Dog Show June 8, 2025
- Memorial Day in Plainfield, MA May 8, 2024
- Ladies Benevolent Society May 9, 2023
- Memorial Day in Plainfield, Massachusetts: A Celebration to Remember May 26, 2022
- Blanche Svoboda Cizek September 28, 2021
- Plainfield Aircraft Spotters July 8, 2021
- Dedications May 26, 2021
- Weights and Measures April 27, 2021
- Demolition By-Law April 2, 2021
- Plainfield Pound November 30, 2020
- Potash November 17, 2020
- Vote October 25, 2020
- Oxen Demonstration October 14, 2020
- Dennis Picard Presentation October 4, 2020
- Beals’ Bucket September 4, 2020

“My meditations indicate . . .” (May 2010)
Twenty Plus Things About My Mother
To the Maker of Music poem by Irene
Leaving Manhattan
Irene Jordan Caplan: Wordsmith
Coming of Age Irene home page
“I Was And Now I Am”
“A Momentous Moment”
“Somehow, somewhere, it was suggested to me there would be a Creative Writing Course …”
“Dear Rebecca” (March 9, 2013)
“Several months ago, I believe I fell from my usual perch . . .” (May 4, 2011)
“Several months ago, I fell . . .” (May 20, 2011)
More info on successful aging
“Today, I am still me, myself, but am so aware of living in a different place” (August 8, 2009)
“I must now write about myself” (May 18, 2009)
MOTION is not Stationary (April 30, 2007)
“With my interest in writing about Old Age . . .” (April, 25, 2007)
“Since the ‘Baby Boomers’ are getting well into their 60’s” (March 25, 2007)
“Ode to Aging” (2006)
“I am 90 years old and much is to be said for this age” (August 2003)
Kay Dilger Metcalfe: Written Reflections on Aging
Kay Dilger Metcalfe
The Shaw/Hudson Family Parlor
Shaw Hudson Community Members
Saturday Night Bath
Memories of Dr. Samuel Shaw
Memories of Summers in Plainfield
Botany
Books
Attic
Astronomy
Dining Room Dr. Shaw’s Family
Clara Elizabeth Hudson and the Shaw- Hudson House
Country Kitchen
Anne Laura Clarke
Apothecary
Dr, Francis Shaw’s Herbarium
Eliza Healy’s Work
#3945 (no title)
Plainly Speaking: News from the Plainfield Historical Society
Clark/Rice Postcard Scrapbook
Pierced or Phantom Leaves
Lori Austin Paintings
About HMHW
Farming in Stone
Surveying the School Lot
Plainfield Aquaduct Company
Mills on Mill River
Old County Road/Allis Cemetery
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