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[edit] Twinkie factory in Natick?
Is there actually a Twinkie factory in Natick? This is mentioned in Family Guy, so it is probably false, but some of the locations mentioned in that show actually exist. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 15:20, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
- There was actually a large Wonderbread factory in Natick. It included a Hostess division, which creates Twinkies. It closed down a few years ago. --Darrik 18:47, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
- I used to walk to school smelling the bread and pastries being baked... mmmmmm!
- The building was torn down recently to make way for the expansion of the Natick Mall. Johnm4 04:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Yes, Natick was once where Twinkies were made! My grandfather, a longtime resident of South Natick, was general manager of the bakery until his retirement in 1979 (at the time the parent company that ran the bakery was called ITT Intercontinental Baking Company although everything was marketed as Hostess). I saw the Twinkies on the line several times. Several other products were baked there, in addition to the bakery's main product, Wonder Bread, including Suzie Qs and, very briefly, Chocodiles. This was also one of the only bakeries in America to produce the Hostess fruitcake--I kid you not--which was only produced at holiday time and was only for sale via special order. User:TBck 02:28, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Newspaper inquiry
I'm a reporter for Boston Globe writing a story about Wiki entries for local cities and towns. Interested to talk to contributors to this article. On deadline. Please contact me at thomascaywood@yahoo.com by Sunday, Sept. 17. Thanks! Thomas —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomascaywood (talk • contribs) Sep 13, 2006
[edit] Chabad Center and "passed through natick" appropriate?
In 1986, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, sent a young couple (Rabbi Levi and Mrs. Chanie Fogelman) to Natick to found the Chabad Center of Natick. One of over 3,000 Chabad institutions currently operating, it now includes a Jewish ritual bath known as a mikvah. This mikvah, known as the Western Well Mikvah, is the only one between Brighton and Worcester. It forms a fundamental part of Jewish married life.
In 1930, the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, passed through Natick on his way from Worcester to Boston. The Rebbe was visiting the United States after having been freed from Soviet imprisonment."
Does this really belong in the "History of Natick" section or on the page at all? I figure I'd leave it for discussion and possible justification before simply removing it. --Johnm4 04:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- I moved the first paragraph down to the "Located in Natick" section and removed the second paragraph. Is there anything relevant or notable about that second paragraph? --Johnm4 21:21, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Henry Wilson
I'm reverting "Henry Wilson was a well-known anti-Semite, who frequently blamed the Civil War on Jewish war profiteers in the cotton business." as unsourced biographical information and possible NPOV issues. There is no such mention on the Henry Wilson wikipedia page. Also, I fail to see how this would be relevant to the Town of Natick page or the history of the town. If you want to include such a statement, please back it up with a source and explain why it is relevant to the page. --Johnm4 21:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Og Mandino?
Somebody might want to consider adding him as a "notable" with Natick connections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Og_Mandino
In one of his books he even talks about writing for the Sassamon, and his high school graduation at what I think was an old movie theater down the street from St.Patricks.
My $.02 and doubtless worth every penny.
[edit] What about Waban?
Why is there no mention of chief Waban in the history section? Weren't he and his Praying Indians actually the first settlers of Natick? Did Eliot ever live here? Wasn't Waban Natick's first justice of the peace appointed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony? clariosophic 02:26, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Opening Sentence Reference Ambiguity
"The name Natick originates from the language of the Native American tribe known as the Massachusett, meaning place of hills."
It appears unclear (to me) whether 'place of the hills' is the meaning of 'Natick' or of 'Massachusett.'
"The name Natick, meaning place of hills, originates from the language of the Native American tribe known as the Massachusett."
resolves this ambiguity in a particular fashion--one of two which seem immediately apparent--as an example of the same words being used unambiguously (if incorrectly).
--Beofluff 05:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Natick youth sports
Natick is very into sports. Alot of variety, basketball, baseball, softball, hockey, football (very big in Natick), and more. Natick Travel basketball B team made it all the way to the national semifinals. Led by coach Cavanaugh and players, Colin Leddy, Gus Black, Cito Nunez, and Oliver Winn —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.182.52 (talk) 21:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
