Government

LETTER: Thanks to Voters from City Councilor

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Lisa Feltner seeks re-election as District B Town Councilor.

Thank you, District B!

Thank you for your continued support this election in several ways, whether by hosting a yard sign, helping spread the good word or making a donation, which also helps continue my web presence for you.

Around Town

Our History: The Golden Cookie Company & Museum Day at the State House

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A Golden Cookie Factory tin container, made to look like a picnic basket (Photo courtesy of
Joyce Kelly)

The following story is part of a series on local history provided by the Historical Society of Watertown. It was written by Sigrid Reddy Watson Terman for the July 2005 Historical Society of Watertown newsletter, “The Town Crier.” Sigrid is a former Board member and former President of the Historical Society, as well at a former Director of the Watertown Free Public Library.

For several years starting in 1997, she wrote a Watertown history column for the Watertown TAB/Press called “Echoes.” Sigrid published her columns in a book called “Watertown Echoes: A Look Back at Life in a Massachusetts Town”. The book is available for purchase through the Historical Society of Watertown for $10. To purchase it, please contact Joyce at joycekel@aol.com.

The building now occupied by Boston Biomedical Research Institute, at 64 Grove Street in East Watertown (Editor’s 2023 note – this building is no longer occupied by BBRI), typifies the transition from a 20th-century building’s original use to a new and apparently unrelated one. People with long memories have told me how they used to buy bags of broken cookies at the Golden Cookie Company for a few cents during the Depression of the 1920s and 30s, and even into the 50s. Their memories, however, may not be long enough to remember the actual purposefor which the building was originally intended.