![]() ![]() I received a letter from PFC David Collier a few days ago and he told me of his visit with Silvio Buscemi somewhere in the Pacific and how they talked over the times back in Groton, and of the ball games that were played by the High School.” “Perhaps the people of the town have already heard about the meeting in the Pacific area of two of our Marines from home but just in case they haven’t I’d like to tell you. Meeting up with someone from home while stationed far away was worthy of note. “I’ve missed the place very much, and most of all the swell people who live in it,” he wrote. The young soldier had been in six countries and lots of small towns and huge cities but there was no place like home. Pfc William Sherwin received a Christmas package from the committee. “Hey Everyone! I received your package today & it was swell,” Joe Cleary wrote on a green, official U.S. Sharon Blood was struck by the slang that dated the letters, especially the word “swell.” The Army Post Office numbers were used to both to conceal the locations of troops and to allow mail to follow them as they moved, according to the National Postal Museum at the Smithsonian Institute. Sometimes a training camp, sometimes from an APO box with a heading in the letter of “S.W. The letters came from wherever the men might be. Dynice and Stephen Dynice are listed on the Shirley monument. The mystery was revealed at the start of a phone conversation with the executive director of the Ayer Council on Aging about something else altogether. The Dynice family, with 13 children, had a farm right on the Groton-Shirley line. “That’s Uncle Tony from California!” said Karin Dynice-Swanfeldt. But no name looked even similar to the second. ![]() The Cleary boys were Barney’s cousins who lived across the street.Ī look at the World War II monument in Groton’s Sawyer Common near the cemetery solved the first mystery. “I want to go further with this,” she said. Elliot Blood in the addresses, died the previous year. She regrets never having the chance to ask her mother-in-law about the boys or about the committee.Įlliot Blood, who everyone knew as Barney, died in October. Sharon, who married into the family which has been in Groton since the 1600s, recognized some of the names. The letters, some without a street name, all made it to the committee who kept in touch with the soldiers living far from home. Tucked into their original envelopes, many were sent to the “Home Town Committee, West Groton.” Some were sent directly to Mrs. The hospital’s new regional location will include an X-Ray room, blood collection lab, exam rooms, treatment rooms, equipment storage, staff lounge and lockers, offices and waiting rooms.GROTON - A trove of letters sent home by lonely servicemen during World War II, hidden for years at the bottom of a closet, surfaced when Sharon Blood took on the task of cleaning the Blood home after her former parents-in-law died. Emerson Hospital’s relocation from its former Boston Road facility signifies the first time that a hospital has been housed on Main Street since 1962. The building is situated in a prime suburban retail market just north of Interstate 495. “The building’s lease with Emerson Hospital signifies the growing trend in the healthcare industry to provide services in a more traditional retail setting.”Ģ40 Main Street is a 13,500-sf newly repurposed retail asset in Groton, MA. ![]() “Having previously served as a local grocery store, 240 Main Street was strategically repositioned by ownership and local stakeholders to serve as a traditional retail space designed to enhance the community and appeal to a diverse range of users, including first-class healthcare tenants,” said Arsenault. Construction is scheduled to being this month. Additionally, Avison Young’s Construction Management Group has been retained by both ownership and the tenant to complete core work to the building and construct the tenant’s turn-key facility. Emerson Hospital was represented by Steve Cook at JLL. This lease serves as a major relocation for the full-service medical center’s regional facility to dramatically improve patient services in an upgraded, modern setting.Īvison Young’s Boston-based Principal Jeffrey Arsenault, who specializes in the retail sector throughout Boston and New England, represented ownership, Kilbourne Place, LLC, in the negotiations. ![]() Boston– Avison Young’s Boston office announced that it has arranged a new 12,000-square-foot (sf) lease at 240 Main Street in Groton, MA with Emerson Hospital. ![]()
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