|
||||||||||
|
22-grandfather was James P. Emerson, lived on Emerson Farm at 11
North Road 30-auctioneer, ran livery stable 35-moved houses around the town with horses, rollers and skids 54-farm was inherited by Brad's father Ted Emerson 59-he was a dairyman 61-Brad was a farmboy until he went to school in 1948 73-around 1951 the barn and cattle burned 85-father was Theodore Emerson 87-he was a Selectman for two terms in the 1940's 93-previously a volunteer firefighter 98-town government"was so much smaller and so much more personal" 103-population was 10,000 so most people knew everyone else 110-today there seems to be more of a "city atmosphere" 111-percentage of attendance at town meetings was greater then than now 128-200 to 300 people was a pretty good turnout then 131-certain issues always dominated town meetings 137-proposal for a Town Manager 144-zoning was introduced during the 1940's 127-rezoning occurred according to a Master Plan during the 1950's 153-new schools with the growth of the Town 173-Planning Board proposed zoning laws which had to be adopted by Town Meeting 179-1960's planning board was more concerned with subdivision development and comtrol 183-spent more time policing than planning 185-Master Plans developed 201-recalls nothing of depression 207-appreciates opportunity to work on a farm 214-North-Center split "has pretty much disappeared" 216-recalls father speaking of bitter feelings between sections 226-possible cause, more distinct economic or class differential back then when Chelmsford was either a farming town or a more sophisticated residential area and North Chelmsford was strictly a mill town 239-even leads in High School plays had to be split between North and Center students, to avoid any conflict 245-heard father talk of Center boys meeting North boys at Drum Hill for Rock fights 248-auctioneering business 252-great grandfather dealt in farm machinery, livestock & horses 254-grandfather, Ralph W.Emerson was the most successful and best known of the four generations of auctioneers specializing in antiques 262-Ted Emerson was into farming and antiques 269-during and after WWII almost every farm within fifty miles was either going out of business, or liquidating stock and machinery 277-during and after the war, people sold their posessions and traveled with everything they could carry 277-during and after the war, there was a great deal of aqationeering activity of liquidating local farms 280-after the farms busihess was in antiques and general liquidation of estates 284-during WWII and after when people moved they would sell possessions here and go with what they could carry, now they take everything with them 289-auctioneering business is entirely different now, "I'm afraid the profession has been prostituted a bit, it isn't the honest legitimate means of doing business it used to be" 295-what is purported to be an auction really isn't, supposed to be a sale to the highest bidder, but all to frequently that is no longer the case; there are strings attatched in many transactions 304-the public is becoming aware of this 307-"It isn't the everyday means of doing business it used to be" 312-Auction Methodology 324-auctioneer must be licensed 337-Real Estate foreclosure 354-day on the farm, 1940's 387-paid by the hour for work at the farm 406-Lowell in the 1940's and 50's 415-population increase, 1950's; Campanelli Builders first to arrive around 1953-54; built Chelmsford Farms I, "slab" houses without cellars 440-then other out of town businessmen arrived; Local man, Robert Hicks built in Chelmsford and Westford 447-by the mid 60's, large tracts had been used up 452-there was always a good market for house sales, Chelmsford has had a reputation for being a very nice suburban community with an excellent school system 458-transient working created by company transfers, word spread rapidly 464-Chelmsford School Dept. one of, first in country to install complete television network 488-has Chelmsford overbuilt schools? perhaps 497-will allow for closing of older schools t and smaller classrooms 505-families are smaller now End of interview |
||||||||||
|
||||||||||