March 5, 2025 Geri Duff
In 1941 Keelah Bouve as Chief Warden for the Hingham Committee for National Defense divided the town into seven districts. The Gov. J.A. Andrew House (a community house at that time) was a first aid station and the District 2 headquarters. Fifty men attended an Air Raid Precaution School here taught by District Warden Henry Keene. At the end of the training session, they watched a “talkie-movie” on how air raids were handled in England. In later years this was the home of the Hingham Visiting Nurses and now it is a private home at 178 North Street. The photo by Harold B. Barney is from the archives of the Bare Cove Fire Museum.