Nov. 1978
Republicans carry Harvard while losing elsewhere
The majority of Harvard voters saw their favored candidates go down to defeat in the statewide elections held on Tuesday, Nov. 6, as Republicans Frank Hatch, Senator Edward Brooke, John Sears, Lewis Crampton, and Timothy O’Brien lost to their Democratic opponents despite victories here in this town of fewer than 4,000. The voter turnout in Harvard was moderate, with 1,735 going to the polls. Hatch defeated Edward J. King by a margin of almost three to one, and Brooke beat Paul Tsongas by more than 250 votes. The only contested office in which a Democrat outpolled a Republican in Harvard was the attorney general’s race, in which incumbent Francis X. Bellotti handily beat William Weld by 1,060 to 612.
Hunting season is under way at Fort Devens
The first three days of hunting season were fruitful for the more than 500 scatter-gunners who hunted on the Fort Devens military reservation, officials at the post report. Military game wardens say that 60 percent of the 200 pheasants that had been stocked were bagged. Hunting was also good for woodcock and grouse…The previous year, 1,200 birds were stocked; 3,227 hunters killed 72 percent of them.
Nov. 1995
Law to give back Native American artifacts benefits Fruitlands Museums
Unlike most of the museums in the state, Harvard’s Fruitlands Museums seems to be benefiting from a federal law that requires institutions to give back, or repatriate, specific Native American artifacts. A deadline imposed by the federal government, which requires museums to inventory Native American remains and funerary objects, passed without crisis at Fruitlands Museums on Nov. 16.
Though many native groups throughout New England exercised their right under a federal law passed by the United States Congress in 1990 to repatriate items of “cultural or ritual importance,” Fruitlands, with its extensive collection of Native American artifacts, had no such requests, museums director Robert Farwell confirmed. In fact, the efforts of sifting through the museums’ extensive collection of Native American artifacts benefitted the collection itself as well as the museums’ relationship with regional Native Americans. “It has changed the way we have portrayed Native Americans through our collection,” Farwell declared.
