Bojuma Farm by Sandy Lawton

One June afternoon at the age of seven in 1955, my mother and I were picking daffodils at the end of our east laneway. Our house was located at 47 Howland Road across from the Acoaxet Chapel. In the distance we heard a tractor coming up the Cross road and turning onto Howland Road. As […]

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Memories of Bojuma Farm

 Harry Bryan  2025      I worked at Bojuma Farm in the summers of 1961 and 1962.   We lived about a mile from the farm and my Raleigh bicycle was my commuting vehicle.  My first job in the morning was to shift an electric fence to make a new part of a field available to the […]

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Women on the Farm

The role of women in the 20th century on the farm varied. On some farms, tasks were clearly delineated — men worked outside and the women cared for the household: Charlie Costa on his grandmother “When my grandfather was working on the farm, she would be washing clothes, hauling water, heating the irons on the […]

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