Wakefield Park on the lower common has welcomed generations of Wakefield residents and others who spent many summer afternoons on the shores of Lake Quannapowitt. Catherine Kennedy Fitzgerald and her family were among those who enjoyed such an afternoon sometime around the late 1920s. Catherine and her husband, John F. Fitzgerald, were both born in Ireland and emigrated to the United States separately in the early 1900s. The couple and their five children: Eileen (Black), Rose (Day), John, Edward, and Bernard Fitzgerald, moved to Wakefield in 1924 where they lived on Broadway and later Emerson Street. The family has established deep roots within Wakefield, with several generations still residing in the community. Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2021 Photo courtesy of Rosemary MOrgan and Mary Ann O'Neil
