Framingham History Center curator Stacen Goldman (left) presents a tour of "An American in World War I" . The exhibition runs through April 30 at the Center.

Seven Framingham folks who served during WWI 

By Chris Bergeron
via the MetroWest Daily News (MA) newspaper web site

FRAMINGHAM, MA — As World War I raged, men and women from all walks of life in Framingham served their country and community at home and abroad in ways that revealed the courage and character of small town America. The lives – and sometimes deaths – of seven diverse residents provide personal snapshots of the war’s impact on Framingham in “An American Town in World War I,” a thoughtful and moving exhibit at the Framingham History Center.

“I definitely hope the exhibit makes visitors think about those men and women who served in different ways,” said curator Stacen Goldman, who organized the exhibit. “I hope people reflect critically on the war and what it meant to those people.”

James J. McGrath left his family and job in Saxonville to enlist eight days after the U.S. entered the war to serve and die on the Western Front.

After her sweetheart joined the Army, Kathryn “Cassie” Harrington founded the Military Girls Club with her two sisters to send “comfort boxes” packed with sweets, treats and letters from home to locals serving overseas.

Feisty suffragette Louise Parker Mayo picketed the White House and was arrested for charging President Woodrow Wilson with denying millions of women their democratic right to vote.

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