Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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It is the Land that remembers — The tribes — Agawone and Naamkeek they lived here then. The first white settler, Thomas Gerry, came to these wild outskirts of Charlestown The Land remembers that he killed an Agawone Indian — buried him in his earthen cellar — The Land holds that moment within her — although the changes came. First cabins, then roads — soon a town and families The Summer Dust remembers The Jones family walking down a shaded road touching a leaf kicking a stone. Then came stores — The cobbler ' s Ten Footer whose beaming knife” cut the kid’s skin, making shoes . . . and the town seal. And then schools — “I remember the spin of the ball, a leap — sweating bodies and muscles tense — The cheers — two points! Coach Carl Elerin led the basketball team to the 1930 title.” Pond Street and Old Malden Road Stoneham High School, Built 1871 The changes came — will come — Cheese Rock that once over looked Gould’s Saw Mill is now Bear Hill and over looks Governor Winthrop’s Spot Pond Dr. Devlin honors the changes of our past of our future . . . And this is the old Fiigh School — Remember when it used to be behind The D.Q.? Way back in the 1970’s? And all the changes since then . . . Remember?