Looking Backward

Published in the Wakefield Daily Item on July 3, 2026

THE CROWDS SWELLED in the Square to watch Wakefield’s Fourth of July parade.

JULY 6, 1965

Sixty years ago, July 6th was a Tuesday. It was fair and cool. The Item’s ten pages cost eight cents.

Wakefield enjoyed as orderly a Fourth of July celebration yesterday as…

 

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