July's Historic Minute from the Historical Commission
Posted on: July 1, 2020 - 10:02am
In 2020, the Historical Commission is highlighting some of the Town’s historical figures each month.
This month’s story features Roland Hayes, a pioneering African-American concert tenor who “went from the plantation to the palace,” with summers on Crane Neck Street here in West Newbury along the way. Click here to read all about it.
His voice resonates to this day: click here, and imagine yourself in Old Town Hall on March 4, 1949, at a concert benefiting the Town water system’s extension to Crane Neck Street.