A local historian, author, and newspaper columnist, Michael Perna Jr. is a life-long resident of Shrewsbury, MA. He is retired from the Air National Guard and is presently the Chief of the Military Records Branch of the Commonwealth of MA. He is a past president of the Shrewsbury Historical Society, member of the town's Historical Commission, and served as a member of the town's Historic District Commission for many years. He is married and has two sons and four grandchildren.
Since the publication of Shrewsbury Through Time in 2013, a number of collections of historical photographs have come to light. Photographs from the Harlow family collection help to document the...
For almost 200 years, Shrewsbury was a small town with virtually no growth in population or industry. Starting around World War I, that rapidly changed, with many small farms and...