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Foxborough to Celebrate 250th Year of Sense of Community on June 7th

Celebration will begin at 7 p.m. on the Common featuring music and a keynote speech from Town Historian Jack Authelet.

To kick-off the, the town will be celebrating another milestone the day before on the Common – the 250th year of Sense of Community.

The town is invited to gather on the Common at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 7th to celebrate Foxborough’s coming together as a community, which led to erecting the Meeting House and becoming a town.

“It was 250 years ago that [Foxborough’s] sense of community, which had become a bond, took tangible form,” said Town Historian Jack Authelet. “It was in 1763 that [Foxborough families] had the strength, the sense of shared destiny and the courage to come together as people of faith, pooling their resources and sharing their strength to erect a Meeting House on what would become the Common and hiring a minister as a prerequisite to filing a petition with the Legislature. They would ask to be set aside as a town of their own.”

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Their sense of community and faith, according to Authelet, led to Foxborough being incorporated as a town and becoming a place of many faiths, which cause for celebration.

“The community is invited to gather once again on the Common as they did in 1763 as a community of faith,” Authelet said “The Serenading Seniors will open the program and, during the course of the evening, will also invite the audience to join in the singing of “Foxborough, My Home Town,” written by their director, Jeanne Bonneau.”

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Authelet, the program’s keynote speaker, will focus on the sense of community, which first drew those living here together 250 years ago.


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