Excerpt from The History of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Westfield, Massachusetts: August 31, September 1, 2, 3, 1919, and Appendix With Reminiscences of the Last Half-Century Therefore it has been our endeavor to provide a book which in workmanship and in contents shall be indicative of its period. There are many pictures which would have aided the endeavor; yet if any are disappointed at their absence they should remember that this is primarily a history of the quarter-millennial celebration, and as such quite properly gives preference to pictures connected with that event. At the same time we have tried to keep a nice balance between the present and the past by means of the various speeches reproduced in full together with pageant and hostess house pictures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.