Word: petersham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George W. Yonkers, chief of the Petersham, Massachusetts, fire department said that the fire fighters were hampered by forty-five-mile-an-hour winds and the dryest possible forest conditions...
Yonkers said that the fire was still dangerous to the town of Petersham until it should rain. He added that there had been no precipitation for two weeks and that "Everybody is praying for rain." Yonkers called Tuesday's holocaust "the biggest fire in the history of Petersham and the Harvard Forest." Petersham has a population of 850 and is surrounded by woods...
...start their academic year, the Fellows come first not to Cambridge, but to Petersham and the Harvard Forest for an orientation period. Following an introduction to the program and a study of the Forest from a conservationist standpoint, they embark on an automobile trip through some of the wide open spaces of New England and New York State. After casting a clinical eye on about 2000 miles of Northeast nature, they finally come on to Cambridge to spend the better part of the year in the library and the classroom...
...other University property, at the Arnold Arboretum, Director Donald Wyman yesterday reported a loss of 300 trees, as compared with the 1500 lost in the 1938 hurricane. At the Harvard Forest in Petersham, there was little loss...
Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...