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Mailed free to requesting homes in East Brookfield, West Brookfield, North Brookfield, Brookfield, Leicester and Spencer Vol. 34, No. 39 Complimentary to homes by request ONLINE: WWW.SPENCERNEWLEADER.COM ‘Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.’ Friday, September 24, 2010 Ancestry, history mark Quaboag 350th Cheers and HOMECOMING questions WEEKEND HELD IN WEST BROOKFIELD greet SC BY GUS STEEVES NEW LEADER STAFF WRITER job votes WEST BROOKFIELD — As might be expected, this past weekend’s events cele- brating the 350th anniversary of the Quaboag Plantation’s founding was loaded with interesting juxtapositions. FEDERAL FUNDS Among them: A man clad in 17th-centu- ry woolen garb awaiting his turn at the portable toilet. A trio of Native USED AT SCHOOLS Americans in deerskins and beads talk- ing to a woman in a homemade bicycle- BY DAVID DORE wheelchair. A Mormon family honoring NEW LEADER STAFF WRITER the Puritan forefather who probably SPENCER — Half a dozen years after she would have condemned them. Police offi- retired, former West Main Street School cers bearing modern pistols walking by a Principal A. Marie McDevitt’s request to display of archaic matchlock and flint- increase the number of working hours for Gus Steeves photos lock muskets. aides in kindergarten classrooms has finally “To find your immigrant grandfather is The Millett clan — from left, Donald, Donna and Daniel — came from Mesa, Ariz., to represent their been granted. quite exciting,” said Donna Millett of ancestor, the Rev. Thomas Millett, West Brookfield’s second minister. But the Sept. 14 vote Mesa, Ariz. “I wish I could find mine.” by the Spencer-East She was referring to her husband’s fam- Brookfield Regional ily, which traces its ancestry back 10 gen- and the arrival of Europeans sparked a about life on the edges of the colony, how School Committee erations to the Rev.
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