We would like to thank MEMO (Medfield Employer and Merchants Organization) for their generous donation to the Lowell Mason Foundation. We look forward to working along side MEMO in making Medfield a special place to both live and work.

MEMO sponsored the Joy to the World signing contest, an addition to this year's annual tree lighting celebration. The event was a great success and we look forward to it becoming an annual tradition. To see a list of the winners and read about all those who were involved in the event please check out the article on the Medfield Patch.

The Lowell Mason Foundation would like to thank Middlesex Savings Bank for their generous $10,000 donation. This donation allows us to button up the house for the winter and start to line up the work to be done to restore the property again in the spring. Please contact us to have your company become a corporate sponsor.

Thank you to everyone who donated and helped us raise $5,000 which was matched by a generous donor for the Lowell Mason Foundation.

Sincerely,

Jim Munz

Treasurer

Today has finally arrived the Lowell Mason House is making the move to 59 Green Street starting at 8:30am. While we do not have specific times for street closures every effort is being made to keep interruptions to a minimum but moving a house as old as this across town is going to go at whatever pace is required to keep everyone safe.

Come on out an enjoy a once in a lifetime event!

During the April school vacation week the house will now be moved due to snow removal and property preparations that have been delayed due to the heavy snow this winter.

On Monday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m., Mason’s life and music will be celebrated in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Medfield, MA – with short plays, music, singing, etc., as part of the Medfield Historical Society’s informational series.

On January 24th 2011 the school committee voted to name the high school auditorium "The Lowell Mason Auditorium" after Medfield's most famous resident and revolutionary American educator. Lowell Mason is widely considered as the “Father of Music Education”. In 1837 – 1838 Lowell Mason taught vocal music at Hawes Grammar School in South Boston on an experimental basis. The success of that experiment led to a landmark resolution in August 1838 where music would be instituted into the curriculum of the Boston Public schools.

MENC posted a message about the effort to save the Lowell Mason House and noted a letter to the Medfield paper written by prominent music education historian Michael Mark, who urges the Lowell Mason House be preserved. Mark is a  member of the Music Educators Hall of Fame, honored for his own contribution to music education and music education history.

A Historical Commission hearing was held March 3 at 8:30 p.m. at the Medfield Town Hall, at the request of a Needham developer to demolish the home. A demolition delay bylaw in the town calls for the commission to review any demolition requests for homes older than 50 years. See article about meeting posted on Wicked Local on March 1, 2010.