SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTES FIREFIGHTER BOB DOHERTY has become the town’s unofficial historian.  It all started back in 1979 when two ladies from the local historical society came by the firehouse and asked if anybody would be willing to give a talk about Somerville’s early fire history.

Bob told the ladies that he would be willing to give it a try if they would show him how to gather the history.  From that first talk, it took off from there.  Doherty’s avocation since then has been to delve into the city’s  past and pass the stories along in talks to civic groups.  And it just keeps growing.  “For every story I had about Somerville history, people in the audience had two more. It really sparked something, they wouldn’t let me go. It made people reflect on their own lives in the city,” he says.

The Somerville News has the interesting story about this FF’s contribution to the “big little city” that’s older than Boston HERE.
(Summerville News photo)

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