A Ray Of Sunshine

Ken O’Brien

Worcester Business Journal reports that AO Eyewear, Inc. will renovate its Southbridge manufacturing headquarters and buy new equipment using a $1.5-million tax-exempt bond issued by MassDevelopment.

The project is expected to create 15 jobs in Southbridge.

A Noble Gesture

Ken O’Brien

The Moses Wilder Blacksmith Shop at OSV

My maternal grandfather was a blacksmith here in Southbridge. I was told, although I cannot recall it, that he maintained a forge in the Globe Village part of town. However, I do remember him shoeing the horses we owned, and I rode, as a child. My mother maintained a period reproduction painting over the family living room fireplace of a blacksmith’s shop that she claimed looked very much like her father’s shop.