A new website and an important link on our website have recently been provided which "Walpoleans" should find of interest.

Walpole resident Richard Laronde has a website at www.RL99.com detailing his recent adventure to the South Pole and a previous trip to the North Pole. The photographs are astounding.

Thanks to Derick Hartshorn, there is a new link on the Society's website. Go to our site at walpolehistoricalsociety.org and click on the "Documents" link. The new file on this page is a searchable file on the "Old Burial Ground", at the corner of Main Street and Kendall Street. The information was compiled by Mr. Hartshorn and the late Guy Ciannavei of Walpole. This is a tremendous aid to researchers of the Burial Ground. The page can be directly accessed at www.walpole.ma.us/hwalpole.htm a page on the town site maintained by Warren Smith, refrence librarian at the Walpole Public Library.

Two sites that aid property research at home are the "Assessor's Database" on the Town of Walpole's site. It provides deed and owner information on all properties in town, including a map. With the Book and Page reference from the Town's page, you can go the Registry of Deeds web site and do your research.

The Registry of Deeds site is free to all. You need an account to print documents on line - but you can look at no charge. Their web site is at www.norfolkdeeds.org Then click on "Research Online Today", then "Free Access", and finally "Click here to access Norfolk Deeds". From there it is a matter of inputting the information you have to view the document. Go at it and have a jolly good researching time.

The Walpole Historical Society's headquarters and museum in the Deacon Willard Lewis House, 33 West St. on the Common, is open on most Saturdays from 2 to 4 p.m.