Background
Kerr, Barbara E. was born on February 8, 1962 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of John Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Kerr.
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In Medford's past, the Mystic River was the origin and the lifeblood of the town. On June 17, 1630, Governor John Winthrop led an expedition of colonists up the Mystic River to the north of Boston, where six miles up the river they found "a good place upon Mystick." This "good place" became Medford, Massachusetts, and Winthrop's journey marked the start of a long and lively history. Glimpses of Medford consists of a selection of articles, stories and reminiscences from the Medford Historical Register, the publication of the Medford Historical Society. In these pages you will be taken on a trip through Medford's history as told by Medford's homegrown historians, from the days of the early settlement to the night that Paul Revere stopped in Medford Square on his famous ride. You will walk down Ship Street at the height of the shipbuilding era, take a ride around town on the Boston and Lowell Railroad and meet Medford's people, from Victorian milkmen to the soldiers of the Lawrence Light Guard. It's a journey through Medford's past that you will never forget.
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When the Boston and Lowell Railroad came through in 1835, Medford was a quiet town with fewer than two thousand residents. By the twentieth century, it had become a thriving city of eighteen thousand. In Victorian Medford, everything was new, from the Medford Opera House, the town hall, and the Mystic Lakes to the camera, the bicycle, and the gypsy moth. The shipbuilding, rum, and brickmaking industries gave way to new businesses, and traditional houses came to share neighborhoods with Queen Anne and Shingle-style architecture. In the mid-nineteenth century, there was great social change, as abolitionists Lydia Maria Child and George Luther Stearns spoke out against slavery and men went to the Civil War. James W. Tufts invented the soda fountain, Fannie Farmer wrote her first cookbook, and James Pierpont wrote "Jingle Bells."
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Kerr, Barbara E. was born on February 8, 1962 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of John Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Kerr.
Bachelor in History, Boston College, Newton, Massachusetts, 1979. Master of Library Science in Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, 1984. Master of Science in Classical Civilizations, Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.
Cataloger Medford Public Library., Massachusetts, 1984—1993, assistant director, since 1993.
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Collections director Medford History Society, Massachusetts, since 2006. Member of Wellesley Choral Society.