[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 38

Date1949 – 1950

AbstractFootage of a parade with the Petersham Brass Band, a uniformed marching band, and marchers in uniform, including boy scouts, with flags intercut with shots of people in a cemetery. Footage of a baseball game. A shot of a flag pole. Footage of a parade and Memorial Day service, including a parade with the Petersham Brass Band, marchers in uniform and boy scouts with flags and a group of children, a few shots of children posing, a children’s choir, people giving speeches from a gazebo, children laying wreaths at memorials and gravestones, a bugler and a flag raising. A few shots of a baseball game. Donor Notes: “Petersham Historical Society Memorial Day 1949, 1950” “Property of Petersham Historical Soc. Memorial Day Movies” Notes on can: “Historical Society Film”