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Pine Island Amusement Park

I’ve heard many stories about the former glory days of Pine Island Park and the memories that many people still have of the place. I try to visualize what the park must have looked like back in the early days.

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New England Memories: Riverside Park, Agawam, MA

When I was a kid growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the most exciting place my brothers and I could think to go was Riverside Park in Agawam, Massachusetts.

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Canobie Lake Park Memories

Canobie Lake Park Round Up Ride

In the early 1900s, The Hudson, Pelham & Salem Railways (HP&S) opened Canobie Lake Park as a pleasure resort to increase the excitement of the expanding trolley lines into Salem and the surrounding Greater Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill and Nashua communities. The expanding automobile ownership of the 1920s drastically reduced trolley use, along with revenues. The [...]

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